Utoxin's Random Insanity

DRM – When will they give up?

Utoxin — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 05:32:26 +0000

Well, it’s happened yet again. Ubisoft came up with a grand new copy protection scheme that was going to stop pirates in their tracks. It would be the holy grail that would make it so only paying customers could use the game. If they had an internet connection. Every time they wanted to play the [...]

CakePHP mod_rewrite optimization

Utoxin — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 01:46:52 +0000

CakePHP is great, but the default installation has a performance issue that is very easy to resolve, and should be fixed in any production installation of a CakePHP application. The solution is very simple. In the default install, there is a file in the webroot called .htaccess. It contains mod_rewrite rules, and you have to set [...]

Hacker’s Diet – Take 2

Utoxin — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 20:36:59 +0000

I’ve tried the Hacker’s Diet once before in the past, and did fairly well, but eventually lost motivation and just stopped. But this year, my employer has offered us what amounts to a free gym membership, and I took the extra step of paying for a trainer. So I’m taking the opportunity to start the [...]

New Security Plans

Utoxin — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 05:01:11 +0000

Due to repeated problems with hackers on servers at my day job, I’ve developed a new security plan that I’m going to share in a second. First, a little background, and then I’ll list my requirements that I used to develop the plan. First, we have no official system administrator, and we have 15 or more [...]

CakePHP Shells, and Cron Jobs

Utoxin — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 15:38:19 +0000

As part of the same project that resulted in my last posting, I needed to write several processes that would be managed by cron. In the past, at the Yahoo contract, we had come up with a way to do this involving a customized version of the basic CakePHP index.php file. However, his required us [...]