Understanding Intrusion Detection System - Samhain

July 5th, 2006 I have been looking for a unmanaged dedicated web hosting provider for the last 7 days or so. I performed sucks tests (search in Google for "xyz sucks"), went to web hosting forums, asked questions to the provider, analyzed their plans with a fine tooth comb.

October 4th, 2006 Sophos has launched a host intrusion detection technology which it claims can spot any malware before it has a chance to execute anywhere on the network. It is integrated into the company’s anti-virus scanning engine.

July 14th, 2006 Butera & Andrews, a Washington, D.C.-based law firm filed suit against IBM in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.

June 3rd, 2005 Without much ado, I present the script. It handles http and https URL's and should work across platforms and configurations (like using htaccess for clean url's etc.).

July 24th, 2006 As part of the settlement in the click-fraud case - Lane’s Gifts v. Google, Google had agreed to have an independent expert examine click-fraud detection methods, policies, practices, and procedures and make a determination of whether or not Google have implemented reasonable measures to protect their advertisers.

February 9th, 2006 I have been interviewing several freshers who were taught Java in engineering schools under computer science curriculum. Interviewing them highlighted serious problems with their education as well as with the system.

July 26th, 2006 Google has released new anti-fraud measures that provides its advertisers reports of invalid clicks through its AdWords system. Advertisers that use Google AdWords can now run campaign and account performance reports that include data about invalid clicks.

March 3rd, 2008 I am very happy to announce the much-awaited release of Comment Guard Pro for WordPress blogs. Comment Guard Pro is designed to unobtrusively protect your blog against all types of comment spams - trackback spam, pingback spam, robotic spam using comment form, human submitted spam (where the spammers actually goes to your site to spam you; they are the hardest to detect), referrer spam etc.

April 30th, 2007 To monitor CPU temperature in Linux you will need to install lm_sensors package and then install gnome-applet-sensors (assuming you are using gnome) to get a nice graphical display. The devil is in the details.

September 22nd, 2006 A lot of my emails are not reaching for some strange reason which is delaying my effort to provide you with free upgrades. Please bear with me.

December 28th, 2008 NEW DELHI - IT solutions provider Sun Microsystems India and Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi are launching an e-governance centre on the IIT campus here to focus on development of non-proprietary software. The Sun-IIT Delhi Centre of Excellence is an outcome of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed between the institute and the IT company in September 2006.

April 15th, 2006 In my experience much of the complexities a newcomer faces in the Java world is understanding extraneous stuff like handling exceptions or formatting data etc. Today I was requested for the nth time (n -> infinity) how to write a simple socket client and server (actually debug one).

September 28th, 2007 I faced a vexing problem with the otherwise excellent Mozilla Thunderbird email client. I was unable to forward emails to another account using the rules in Message Filters.

August 13th, 2006 Update: LinkieWinkie merely leveraged the links to create yet another blog site. Nice bait and switch, but I expected better.

April 18th, 2005 We often talk about understanding an application from code and unit tests with catch phrases like - "code is the documentation". In my experience I haven't found a better and more concise documentation then reading the SQL schema for any application, assuming it has one.