About Web Servers Security

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A few weeks ago I was talking to an old friend of mine who finally decided to take advantage of his fast broadband and have a little personal site “hosted” at home, over the broadband link. (Due to the fact that I’m gonna give away some details about his hardware and software setup, I decided […]

Enterprise vs .COM

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As some of you might know already, I work nowadays in a company that started during the .com era. It’s a new internet media organization, specialized in net contextual advertising. Prior to that though, I used to work in a company offering enterprise solutions for document management. Most of their clients were large-scale companies with […]

How to enable right-clicking in Firefox browser

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Note: The following only apply to Firefox — there is no equivalent in IE … yet! On the same subject as the one discussed previously: this is how to deal with websites which disable things like right-click on their pages — or elements of the page (images, divs, tables etc). So, first and foremost, bring […]

“Protecting” the online contents

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So, have you checked out http://www.protware.com/ and their product that allegedely protects your online content from copy/paste/view source and so on… What a load of pants 🙂 Don’t they just realise that since you have to make at some point the unecrypted contents available to the browser (unless you’re going to use a plugin, which […]

Cool Windows Utility

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Here’s one worth dowloading: Handle from SysInternals : it lists all the files currently opened and the processes they are opened by. While this facility has been present in Unix systems for ages, it took a while to get something similar it seems on Windows. Have a look here.

dot-com idea

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Here’s a (pretty stupid) idea of making money in the DOT-COM era: run a website where you invite people to make suggestions on what you could do to lose your job and get yourself fired and then run advertising on it (mostly to do with job hunting!) and make money off it. 🙂 Wonder if […]