For the last decade, there has been a disturbingly major increase in cross site request forgery attacks (csrf). In this kind of attack, an unauthorized request from the user’s browser is made to a vurnerable website to execute an unwanted action, without the user even noticing. These unauthorized requests can be triggered by mails or [...]
I’m a huge fan of vi and any kind of software that incorporates vi-like behavior (emacs users can safely ignore this article). That’s why I intensively use the vimperator addon in Firefox. You could say internet browsing wouldn’t be the same without it. But there’s this one minor annoyance I always encounter while using vimperator: [...]
Arch Linux has a very decent system for building packages called ABS or Arch Build System. It basically comes down to one file called the pkgbuild where you put all the necessary information to construct a package. Everything else is taken care by makepkg, the tool that reads, compiles and builds the package accordingly. Because [...]
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 [...]
Today I’ve added vdpauinfo to the Arch User Repository (AUR), which makes it my fourth uploaded application to AUR. Vdpauinfo is a useful tool to determine the vdpau capabilities of your graphics card.It is an updated version of Wladimir J. Van der Laan’s vdpinfo tool. Here’s the output of my Nvidia Geforce 8400M GS: display: [...]