Wordpress 2.0

December 29th, 2005

Wow, well that was a short release candidate stage. For those of you who don’t already know, everyone’s favourite semantic blog publishing platform, Wordpress has hit version 2. With that they have also changed their website’s design, rather disappointingly I think as I liked their old serif-oriented look. Actually the same can be said for […]

Katie Melua: Piece by Piece

December 28th, 2005

Of all places it was on Sunday AM (a politics show hosted by Andrew Marr) that I first saw Katie Melua. Actually before I continue, if you click on that link then you can watch the most recent episode if you are so inclined–no Melua though–just politics. Well it was certainly a memorable moment: […]

Installing AIDE

December 27th, 2005

AIDE stands for Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment (not System!) It collates information about files you specify, like checksums and permissions, into a database to be stored on external media. This can be especially useful in detecting files edited or placed on your system covertly by a cracker. For instance if your system is compromised “ls” […]