accidentally rm -fr /etc

If you ( better not you, but **** happens) remove your /etc on redhat/centos 5 and you still have an open remote root shell, here is what you have to do to make sure you still can reach the host (I wouldn’t write it if I had a backup): 0. Say f***********ck, take a deep breath and don’t panic 1. Make a prayer ( whatever god will do, even Einstein, nobody hears you screaming anyway ) 2. Restore...

What’s up with SPAM ratio? What will your send me next email marketer?

As Neil Schwartzman in returnpath blog says about McAfee email report which shows that overall amount of email has grew up whenever the SPAM ratio remains the same: The very bad news: Overall email volume is way up so the amount of spam has gone way up too. Translation: there is a lot more crap clogging up the system. and the obvious advice: For marketers a move toward smaller amounts of relevant email is way ...

Internet Filtering: New Zealand joins the growing crowd

Last month NZ government has stealthy launched their filtering system. From now on, New Zealand Internet users are in good hands. Sad. Here is what their opposition says: Does New Zealand have internet filtering? Yes. The Department of Internal Affairs ran a trial internet filtering scheme in conjunction with Ihug, Watchdog, Maxnet and TelstraClear from May 2007 to September 2008. The system is now running with...

Open letter to Google: free VP8, and use it on YouTube – Free Software Foundation

Open letter to Google: free VP8, and use it on YouTube – Free Software Foundation. With its purchase of the On2 video compression technology company having been completed on Wednesday February 16, 2010, Google now has the opportunity to make free video formats the standard, freeing the web from both Flash and the proprietary H.264 codec. To sit on this technology or merely use it as a bargaining chip...

Another project to be doomed?

Last week, Oracle laid off two more members of Sun’s already-decimated APO (Orca screen reader, a project led by Sun’s Accessibility Program Office.) Open Letter to Oracle here Now it’s more like offense if they close it ...