Archive for 2007/10

Phishing attacks impersonate someone you do business with in order to separate you from your confidential information. Usually they are pretty hokey but the sophistication level has been steadily increasing over the last year.
I received a new telephone-based variation three times this morning. It’s a “Credit Union” attack with a very clever email. [...]

That’s one exciting title. I found myself needing to migrate /var/log to a bigger drive as part of setting up a centralized syslog server. Normally, that’s not so hard but my requirements included:

Software RAID – mirroring drives for fault tolerance and no need for hardware RAID
Logical Volume Manager – LVM gives me additional [...]

On the heels of my post yesterday, I want to share a strategy I’ve recently started using to manage third party dependencies with Subversion. In my code, I rely on many packages like jQuery, Dojo and FCKEditor. It’s easy to fall behind as they release new versions, especially when you have to overlay [...]

I searched like crazy and couldn’t find this information very easily anywhere so here’s the documentation. Many subversion clients, like TortoiseSVN, look for bugtraq properties in your repository. When it sees these properties, in the case of TortoiseSVN, it adds a new box to the UI when you’re committing code changes that allows [...]

I went this morning to Mountain View Sunnyvale to see Joel Spolsky give a presentation on FogBugz. I don’t know why people claim that south of 85/237 is Mountain View! That’s not Joel’s fault; I’m sure the Hilton is just trying to scam everyone that their meeting is in a fancier town and [...]