Articles, notes and random thoughts on Software Development and Technology
O’Reilly have been experimenting with short downloadable PDF books, which they are calling ‘Short Cuts’. The latest is ‘Getting Started with Hibernate3’ which you can purchase now from their site for $9.99.
Anyone tried one of these ‘Short Cuts’ yet and have any comments? They look like a good idea if you are looking for something to get you started quickly?
Just one day after the security announcement and patch, there is a new Rails release, 1.1.6, which further addresses the security risk.
Earlier in the week when the first announcement came out there wasn’t any indication of what the issue was, but apparently the security risk was a hole where a user could execute code on your filesystem. Nice. A reminder to do some testing with that shiny new development framework before you deploy your new app out there on a production server…
Paramount will be the first movie studio to release a new movie on DVD and the two new competing hidef DVD formats, HD-DVD and Bluray at the same time. The movie is Mission: Impossible 3. Read more here.
Use this command to add an ip address to be blocked by iptables:
<code> iptables -I INPUT -s x.x.x.x -j DROP iptables -I INPUT -s x.x.x.x -j LOG </code>
This example inserts a rule at the top of the table to block all incoming requests from ip x.x.x.x, and then inserts a second rule at the top to first log any connection attempts from this address (before they are blocked).
To see what rules are currently configured, use: iptables -L
For more info, see this entry in the O’Reily Linux Hacks book.