This seems to be pretty basic and obvious, but a the first rule about keeping a secret is don’t tell people. Frankly, I think Dan should be pretty happy that the details about the DNS vulnerability he discovered took this long to emerge publicly. As he pointed out, 13 days are better then zero. Continue reading
So I’m in the process of ripping out Ferret and moving to Ultrasphinx for Cabernet’s search engine. Continue reading
Since good things come in threes, I decided to write about what I think it takes to build a successful team to run a community website. If you haven’t yet already, be sure to read Part One and Part Two first. Continue reading
So I’ve spent a great deal of time over this 4th of July holiday working on Cabernet and I have to say, it’s beginning to look presentable. Continue reading
I released Tcpreplay 3.3.2 today. Almost all the bugs fixed and enhancements in this release were requested by users, so a big thanks to everyone who opened a ticket or emailed me their suggestions/bug reports. Continue reading
So I had an interesting problem. I wanted to install CentOS 4.1 on a box which had new enough hardware that you needed 4.4 or better. Getting this to work was an interesting problem, here’s how… Continue reading
I’ve successfully migrated Cabernet over to Rails 2.1. Not being a power-rails developer, there doesn’t seem to be a whole lot that has changed. Most of the API remains the same, and the one thing that’s changed (pagination) has been replaced with an easier to use module (will_paginate). Continue reading
So a co-worker sent me this link of “cool Ruby tricks“. After looking at them, I’ve come up with the Ruby equivalent of Perl’s TIMTOWTDI (There is more then one way to do it.) Continue reading
With tcpreplay 3.3.2 development wrapping up, I think I’ll take a break from C and concentrate on Ruby. I’m still using Cabernet and with Passenger, it looks like my goal of distributing a Rails application is finally doable. So that means getting Cabernet ready for Rails 2.1 and of course cleaning up the UI so it’s not so horribly ugly. Continue reading
Yesterday, I touched on some of the problems of creating a pcap repository. I explained how you need to market the site to vendors in order to solicit their contributions, but obviously you need more then corporate donations to make the site successful- you need individuals. So how do you motivate the masses? Continue reading
