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Revisiting Python

ray — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 04:30:47 +0000

Restarting learning of Python for upcoming project, stay tuned. Related posts that you might be interested in...February 26, 2010 -- (How to) Signup for SecureMe (0)January 31, 2010 -- OFFER AT NO MINIMUM COST! (0)January 28, 2010 -- SecureMe: starting off (0)January 27, 2010 -- Starting off small (0)November 21, 2009 -- Project: SecureMe (0)November [...]

Disappointed

ray — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 17:00:52 +0000

Disappointed with this world, where everyone is so focused on him/herself that only things get noticed when 1) it’s done by him/herself, especially when extraordinary, and 2) it’s not done by someone else who should be doing it, and causes inconvenience to oneself. That’s the kind of world that gives birth to and rewards those [...]

How a visit to the pub with friends ends up in a sleepless night

ray — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 19:21:26 +0000

Dropped by a pub with some (good) friends for a short while of drinks and games, where this game was introduced for the first time to me. It’s called the “Guessing Game”, where basically each participant has a cup of five dice each, and after shaking it, looks at his/her own dice combination, comes up [...]

Not all “China-men” are like that

ray — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 05:00:37 +0000

We tend to not like the foreigners in our midst. If you go on Facebook/Twitter you would see that there is dissent against them in general (by the more vocal crowd), particularly those from China. Though I don’t like the more unlikeable aspects of their behaviour: the spitting, brash talking in public, the very ungracious [...]

Accountability and mentorship: Moving on

ray — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 17:48:57 +0000

Things change, and things change regularly. There was a time where we had the privilege of having good Christian role models in our lives: seeing and experiencing how the good life was done, being encouraged, being made accountable to someone older and more mature in the faith, having an ever deeper understand of scripture with [...]

Interesting scanner

ray — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 16:26:26 +0000

I know I’m probably the only one in this island that thinks this as interesting, but nevertheless… It’s normal for the web server to get scanned by other “inquisitive” people/machines/bots, but this tool looks pretty interesting… Will dig deeper into this later. The scanners typically try to detect whether I’m running certain vulnerable versions of [...]

More automation needed

ray — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 15:25:04 +0000

Although I’ve managed to configure the server such that there’s a fair amount of automation for appropriate tasks (phone homes, automated monitoring and basic defenses), the time needed daily to monitor/maintain it still adds up…and is unreasonable collectively. Looks like I’ll have to look into further automating some of the tasks… Related posts that you [...]

The right to do something doesn’t necessarily mean that doing something is right

ray — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 12:15:43 +0000

Everyone likes “clever phrases”, but since it helps us to remember… Came up as a summary statement of sorts in the sermon for 1 Cor 8-9. To sharpen the meaning further it probably could be “The right to do something does not necessarily mean that doing it is good for others”, but that certainly isn’t [...]

More targeted at self

ray — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 17:38:21 +0000

Seems that the last implication question (from the example about the farmer) I thought up from preparing 2 Tim 2:1-7 was meant more for myself at this point in time than simply for the general crowd: “Do we give up halfway? (Not the same as taking a break, but giving up/abandoning the gospel work)” Writing [...]

Profiling client internet connections

ray — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 10:20:57 +0000

Some more fun with p0f and Splunk…Now with profiling of client internet connections! Setup of the p0f and logging is the same as in the OS Profiling post. The Splunk search string has been extended to extract the source’s internet link as a field too (go for the portion in bold for the field extracting [...]