Nepherte (dot) be

Yesterday I added another 2 packages to the Arch User Repository (AUR) which brings up my total to 6. The 2 applications are the mercury compiler and csrftester.

I was surprised to see there was no fitting packaged mercury compiler available in any of the Arch Linux repositories. Arch has many compilers available but apparantly not the mercury compiler. I admit that mercury is perhaps not the most popular language, considering it is a) declarative and b) not backed by a major company like Microsoft, but I was suprised nonetheless. It may be worth mentioning that compiling mercury takes a little while (depending on your computer a few hours) so make sure you have the time if you’re building it.

CSRFTester is a whole different application. It is used for testing Cross Site Request Forgeries in web applications. It sits in between your browser and the internet and logs your http requests. Based on those logs, it can generate sample code to exploit possible csrf vurnerabilities. As the name suggests, it’s just for testing purposes and logging. Don’t expect any out of the box exploits.

I’ve enabled guest read access to my svn repository. For the moment only the directory holding my arch linux’ pkgbuilds is accessible by guests but more subrepositories may come available depending on the free time I have.

You can access the svn repository by browsing to https://svn.ulyssis.org/repos/nepherte/pkgbuilds. You will have to authorize yourself with the credentials: user “guest” and password “guest”.

You can of course do a plain chechout. Simply run the following command in a console:

svn checkout https://svn.ulyssis.org/repos/nepherte/pkgbuilds pkgbuilds --username "guest" --password "guest"

I’ve finally moved Nepherte.be to a different host. I’ve complained about my previous host in the past and acted upon it, albeit a couple months later. The website, domain name included, now resides back on the servers of ulyssis, an it student organization affiliated with K.U. Leuven, my university. I’ve hosted sites there before and the service has been impeccable so far. More interestingly, they also offer ssh access to their servers and a personal svn repository, 2 services I can really use.

It’s the first time I’ve actually moved an active, online site to another host and the whole process was surprisingly easy. It doesn’t take a computer science engineer to do it, though that is exactly what I am studying. I hope visitors didn’t encounter any problems and I don’t think they did. I will soon make a couple svn subrepositories available with some of my work.