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Autarchy of the Private Cave

http://www.bogdan.org.ua/

This is a personal blog used to make notes on what I am doing. What I do, usually concerns or is related to science (bioinformatics), society (general issues), some bits of programming (PHP), etc.

• Added on: Dec 12th, 2006
• Country: Ukraine
• Language: English

• Author: Bogdan
• Listed in: Personal Technology Science
• Tags: programming web links Linux misc bioinformatics

Recent Posts

• Does Google attack your servers, too?

  Posted on Saturday December 5th, 2009 at 06:28 in google, web, abuse, misc, server, attack

  For about 2 weeks now, I am every day alerted of the suspicious behavior of some computer/server from the Google’s IP range: Dec 5 05:39:33 mx suhosin[3701]: ALERT – tried to register forbidden variable ‘_REQUEST[option]‘ ...

• fail2ban and Google translate: how to easily cut your WP blog traffic

  Posted on Friday November 13th, 2009 at 18:11 in Software, php, blog, web, wordpress, traffic, URL, wordpress plugins, whitelist, wp, rule, google translate

  fail2ban has a php-url-fopen rule. WordPress has a Global Translator plugin, which – among others – uses Google Translate service. If someone uses Google Translate (e.g. using Global Translate’s mini-language-flags), and goes back t...

• Cloud-based bruteforcing, slowloris, and Golang: links

  Posted on Friday November 13th, 2009 at 10:34 in programming, web, links, Security, misc, mod, apache, Cost, complexity, password, go, ec

  A nice report on the cost of bruteforcing variable-length and variable-complexity passwords using cloud computing services (e.g. Amazon’s EC). There’s a kind of a tutorial in their previous post. Slow DoS attack with just 1 computer again...

• ocrodjvu: increase accessibility of your DJVU books

  Posted on Thursday November 5th, 2009 at 01:04 in Software, Technologies, links, ocr, tesseract, ocropus, djvu

  ocrodjvu = OCRopus (tesseract) + DJVU It is a small command-line tool to easily convert your image-only DJVU files into image+text DJVU files. In Debian testing, there are language packages for (in no specific order) German, English, French, Spanish,...

• Ukraine hit by influenza A/H1N1 (swine flu)

  Posted on Friday October 30th, 2009 at 17:21 in life, society, Ukraine, influenza, pandemic, misc, quarantine, epidemic, swine flu, a h1n1

  Starting October, 30, there is a 3-week quarantine in all primary and higher bodies of education in Ukraine – to limit the spread of the infection. A total of 80k people were registered with respiratory infections (not classified by flu type). ...

• Search and replace in a MySQL table

  Posted on Tuesday October 27th, 2009 at 02:37 in search, MySQL, How-To, snippet, notepad, replace

  This query performs a table-wide search-and-repalce: UPDATE `table_name` SET `table_field` = REPLACE(`table_field`,’string to search for and replace’,'replacement string’); If you need a database-wide search-and-replace, you could t...

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