After giving it a significant amount of thought, I finally decided to switch my blog from Serendipity (s9y) to WP. The administrative backend is nicely polished, and highly extensible. The problem that pushed me to make the jump was that I started getting the dreaded “No data received” error at seemingly random times. After trying …
Category: Technology
Mar 31 2012
Equifax sends passwords insecurely in plain text leading to potential identity theft
The credit bureau Equifax claims to take various precautions regarding their customers’ personal information, and attempts to combat identity theft. However, if you ever need to contact their customer service for any reason (being locked out of your account, resetting your password, et cetera), they will send you your password in plain text. You might …
Mar 22 2012
Goodbye Aristotle
Today, I am retiring one of my previous servers, Aristotle. It has been a good machine, but I no longer need it because it has been replaced by a newer machine in a different datacentre. It had a good run of a couple years, with a nice uptime: bsbc-aristotle aristotleadmin # w 18:22:34 up 475 …
Thought for the Moment
