Yesterday, someone at the office asked me to build a VPN connection to/with one of our suppliers. Since we have a working IPSec-setup, this shouldn’t be much of a problem. But, ofcourse, the ‘other side’ is using Checkpoint FW1. Always in for a nightmare, I started googling and trying some stuff. After a few hours [...]

I recently found my ‘old’ digital camera back.. Although I bought it somewhere in 2000, it’s still working. The quality isn’t that good compared to newer models, but it’ll do for the moment :)
My Desk
Livingroom

Today seems to be doomed. I had to get up at 5:30AM to be at the office in time. When I arrived, I found one of the mailservers bezerking and having a rather high load, even ssh wasn’t possible anymore. No worries, we have powerboots. Unfortunately, the descriptions didn’t match, so I rebooted the wrong [...]

After finding some psybnc’s and other kiddie-crap on one of our webservers, I figured it would be a Good Idea ™ to disable the bind() call for normal
users. Knowing Sten Spans created a module that ‘changed’ the seteuid/setegid syscall, and after a few
hits google, I came up with the first it-compiles-ship-it-version of it :)
Ugly as [...]

Always nice to find your backup-mx spammed to hell:

messages in queue: 582749
messages in queue but not yet preprocessed: 427364

(sample)
After a little research, (read: google) I found the following link, giving a few more hints:
http://www.spamvrij.nl/lijsten/bedrijf.php?idbedrijf=1189
If that’s correct, then this could be our suspect:

Registrant:
J.J. Rams
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