Markus Dresch

If there are a lot of SQL statements in the Apache logs, there's most probably someone running blind SQL injection attacks against one of the local websites. Above all one has to make shure, scripts are not vulnerable to such attacks, but often attackers exploit bugs that can't be easily fixed....

When using localhost for tunneling Samba on Mac OS X, the following error message will be displayed on trying to connect to smb://localhost:...

To speed up a Windows domU, the GPLPV drivers do a great job in paravirtualising essential parts of the system. The latest Windows versions require drivers to be signed in order to be installed. When trying to run gplpv_Vista2008x64_0.11.0.188.msi on a Windows 2008 R2 domU, the installer shows a message about activating "test signing" mode....

After setting up another virtual Windows server as a Xen domU, i did not manage to get a network connection, not even after installing the PVM drivers....

Facebook has written a PHP to C++ converter called HipHop for PHP, revealing the details tonight. A speed increase of 5-10 times is promised, although "less used functions" might have been ignored/dropped....