Category Archives: IT

Rep. Candice Miller continues to spam non-american citizen with public money

The spams comes from Congresswoman.CandiceMillerE-Newsletter@MAIL.HOUSE.GOV. Your congresswoman is spending tax money to send spam. Besides, she sends spam to Switzerland citizen, which most probably don’t give a dam for what she thinks. Michigan voters are probably in need for another Congresswoman the next time they elect someone.

digitec.ch poor environmental behavior

I ordered my new Canon S100 camera from digitec.ch, mainly because they pretended to have it in stock. Along with the camera, I ordered a second NB-5L battery pack and a Transcend 32 Gb SDHC card. I paid everything in advance with my credit card. So far so good.

Record uptime

1875 days uptime on a Solaris 9 server. That translates to about 5 years and 50 days. When has your windows server lasted more than 30 days ?

Jours fériés 2012 en Suisse

Comme chaque année depuis 2008, voici le calendrier des jours fériés 2012 en Suisse pour iCal en format ics. Mode d’emploi : télécharger sur votre Mac dézipper démarrer iCal importer le fichier .ics dans votre calendrier feries_2012_suisse.ics.zip Corrections et compléments bienvenus, mon email se trouve dans la page “About me”, ou alors sous forme de [...]

Perl_Tstack_sp_ptr

In some situations, you will see such an error : perl: symbol lookup error: XXX.so: undefined symbol: Perl_Tstack_sp_ptr

upload a file to Sharepoint from Linux/UNIX

SharePoint is the bane to system administrators everywhere. This thing is so obscure, and so few people have got an idea how to properly interact with it… Anyway, after hours of googling, I found an easy method to upload a file to a sharepoint server : curl. Sharepoint supports HTTP PUT commands, but wants NTLM [...]

Jours Fériés 2011 en Suisse

Comme en 2008, 2009 et 2010, voici le calendrier des jours fériés 2011 en Suisse pour iCal en format ics. Mode d’emploi : télécharger sur votre Mac dézipper démarrer iCal importer le fichier .ics dans votre calendrier feries_2011_suisse_ics.zip Corrections et compléments bienvenus, mon email se trouve dans la page “About me”, ou alors sous forme [...]

Avoiding the Screen Saver in Windows

In some organizations, the IT administrators are somewhat paranoid. I have got a Windows 7 laptop with a non-editable screen saver timeout of 15 minutes. As I only use this laptop for the terminally-broken Outlook, it has the tendency to be locked-up all the time. To avoid this syndrome, I tried to hack the registry. [...]

broken by design or stupidity ?

US-CERT just released TA10-238A. Excerpts : Due to the way Microsoft Windows loads dynamically linked libraries (DLLs), an application may load an attacker-supplied DLL instead of the legitimate one, resulting in the execution of arbitrary code. OK, I suppose an attacker must have administrator rights to plant a hostile DLL ? Or maybe not ? [...]

Hacking the Google Mini

At a customer site, they decomissioned a Google Mini Appliance. The message was clear : throw it away. I decided to check what I could do with it instead. I didn’t even try to use the onboard Google indexing features or data. I was given the box in condition of erasing the internal disk, so [...]

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