WordPress reset

I finally managed to unlock my access to my WordPress blog. Since the last upgrade I always received the “You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page error”

I installed a fresh WordPress (new empty database, new path). Once the setup was done I copied everything from the old database to the new database except for wp_user and wp_usermeta. After logging in as an administrator everything was working as before the error. IRead more.

Ubuntu numeric keypad

After the upgrade to Ubuntu 9 I was unable to use the numeric keypad on my external keyboard that’s connected to my laptop. I’ve switched every possible option in the keyboard preferences on and off and found out that you have to disable the Pointer can be controlled using the keypad option. That’s under System, Preferences, Keyboard and Mouse Keys.

Snort 3.0 Beta 3 Released

An interesting post by Martin Roesch on the new architecture in the beta release of Snort.

Upgrading Ubuntu and no longer access to my encrypted home partition

I recently upgraded my laptop to the latest Ubuntu 8. The upgrade process was easy and quick however after the reboot I was unable to access my home-directory. I have a separate partition on which /home is mounted. This partition is encrypted with cryptsetup.

When I start the cryptdisk daemon it returns an error: /etc/init.d/cryptdisks start * Starting remaining cryptodisks… mount: special device /dev/mapper/cryptohome does not exist Enter passphrase: Checking the status with cryptdisk doesn’tRead more.

Upgrading Ubuntu and no longer access to my encrypted home partition

I recently upgraded my laptop to the latest Ubuntu 8. The upgrade process was easy and quick however after the reboot I was unable to access my home-directory. I have a separate partition on which /home is mounted. This partition is encrypted with cryptsetup.

When I start the cryptdisk daemon it returns an error: /etc/init.d/cryptdisks start * Starting remaining cryptodisks… mount: special device /dev/mapper/cryptohome does not exist Enter passphrase: Checking the status with cryptdisk doesn’tRead more.

Disable the DNS cache in Firefox

When Firefox misbehaves by caching old DNS requests then type

about:config

in the addressbar and change these settings

network.dnsCacheEntries 0 network.dnsCacheExpiration 0

Now restart your browser.

Working with screen under linux

Screen is a nice little nix-utility that allows you to leave a command running on a remote server even if you have disconnected.

The utility has a site at http://www.gnu.org/software/screen/.

Use is easy. Start screen with screen. You can exit an existing screen by tapping CTRL-A, d. Re-attaching to a screen is done with screen -r id. You can retrieve a list of ids by tapping screen -ls.

Engrish

Website ns.nl nmbs.be

Voor een tripje in Nederland net een bezoek aan de website van de Nederlandse Spoorwegen gedaan. Wie de duffe onpraktische website van de NMBS gewend is, is het even schrikken.

Een heldere site, mooie layout, alles direct beschikbaar, onderaan wat ‘tags’ van recente zoekopdrachten en zelfs voorzieningen voor slechtzienden. De stations- en reisinformatie geeft weer wat je nodig hebt en de site werkt gewoon ‘snel’.

Wat wil een mens nog meer? Misschien een ideetje voorRead more.

APEG: automatic patch-based exploit generation

‘n Nieuwe trend, maak je exploits op basis van de beschikbare patches. Nog betere trend. Doe het volautomatisch en binnen de minuut.

Enkele onderzoekers van Berkeley, Pittsburg en Carnegie Mellon beschrijven hun onderzoek.