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In a previous post I wrote about downtime I ended with the sentence, “For those following along at home, we’re now powered by 152 physical processors, 511 gigabytes of memory (RAM), 174 hard disks with several terabytes of storage, and we’re adding new servers constantly.”

That last part about “adding new servers” was especially true, for WP.com we’re now at 8,921 CPU cores across 2,475 physical processors, 8,200 gigabytes of memory (RAM). We’ve changed how we’ve done storage, but now that layer includes on its own 1.3 terabytes of RAM, 1.3 petabytes of storage, and 8.9 terabytes of solid state disks. (Plus Amazon S3, which we use as backup to our internal systems.)

Article: http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2011/03/08/some-turbulence/

 

I was searching for some tutorial on how to use ListView in VB .NET a few minutes ago and this was the solution that I gotten from Google search engine.  I have to complete my project of a Parental Control Software in 40 days, I wonder whether I can complete them in the remaining amount of time.  Although the project looks easy, it is not something I am coding for my own interest which makes me feel lazy everytime I turn on Visual Studio 2008.  But whatever, let us hope I can get the things done at the right time!

Link: http://www.fryan0911.com/2009/06/vbnet-listview-tutorial-add-edit-and.html

The blog has been down for at least 1 or 2 days as I had violated the TOS of WordPress.com,  as of now I am removing all existing adf.ly and sharecash.org links.  Please do not proceed into clicking if you see one, instead post a comment if you by chance come across one so that I will be alerted to remove it.

I am currently removing adf.ly and sharecash.org links as i believe it have violated the agreement to use wp.com.  Please be patient as i remove them all and please post a comment on posts that have these links as i might miss them.  At the meantime, hear this.

Take a stroll on what Scott Berkun has to say on how is WordPress.com made here.

Life in a Star Wars battleship.

Some of the tutorials posted by h-boy from HackForums that would come in handy.

Obfuscation is the act of rendering virtually anything, not understandable.  Code obfuscation is where programmers code in such a way that no other programmers can understand. 

A LAND (Local Area Network Denial) attack is a DoS (Denial of Service) attack that consists of sending a special poison spoofed packet to a computer, causing it to lock up. The security flaw was actually first discovered in 1997 by someone using the alias "m3lt", and has resurfaced many years later in operating systems such as Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP SP2.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LAND

By using the tool hping3 by Hping, this packet can be crafted!  Although most firewalls are already there to stop this, this concept is nonetheless creative.  A similar command from hping3 would include:

[code]
hping3 --baseport 80 --destport 80 --syn --spoof TARGET_IP TARGET_IP
[/code]

A very good article to understand on how the PE file format works B. Luevelsmeyer.  Below are the contents included.  This article was given to me by a member by the handle mindlessdeath from HackForums.

I was asked by a friend to complete a questionnaire and i came across a few question that i never thought of.  Nor did i have any answer in heart.  Here is some of the question that i was given; and you might want to question yourself too. 

I always wonder how to have Ubuntu as my primary OS and run BackTrack inside it because VirtualBox just doesn't seem to like him! Probably VirtualBox just has personal issues with him, we don't know.  Today i found a partner that may just suit BackTrack and she is called VMware.  Although i knew this software since the age of dinosaur, i never came to look into it in detail.  As i was requiring BackTrack in my Ubuntu desperately, i went to Google and found an intriguing result!

Are you a rootkit developer?  Can you fulfill my idea in the Ideas and Challenges page?  I am looking for some articles or any resources that can help me solve the following.

• Hide a process


• Hide a file


• Hide a registry


• Hide a port


• Contact userland application, vice versa


• Keystroke logging

I was in a restaurant yesterday when i realized I desperately needed to break wind.  The sound system was really, really loud, so i timed it to coincide with the beat of the music.

I finished my coffee and noticed that everybody was staring at me.

Then i remembered.  I was listening to my iPod.

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Source: Reader Digest Asia, January Edition of 2011.
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Check out the updated list of forums one should join!  If you have a forum that you would wish to post so that people can get to know about your forum, remember to reply it there!

Link: http://genesisdatabase.wordpress.com/2010/12/31/list-some-of-your-favourite-forums/

 

It is something i have learned previously.

It is something i have learnt previously.

This is a tutorial that was given by one of the professor in my university that my friend was studying.  He is in the gaming course so basically he learned some flash programming and now 3d programming too.  Some of the subjects include DirectX so the professor gave them a website that guides you from the basics.  This website is called DirectX Tutorial.com and the website is as below.  Although i am not fancy of writing anything related to graphics i find that it is quite an interesting subject.  By learning how to write with D3D (Direct 3D), a C or C++ programmer may find it useful for their future projects.  To jump start the tutorial, visit here.

Homepage: http://directxtutorial.com/

Note: If you are looking for the DirectX SDK it is here.

Can someone out there tell us what are the differences between a hacker and an ethical hacker?  The first thing that comes in mind would be (1) a hacker is someone bad hacking computers whereas (2) an ethical hacker is someone that hacks but it is for the goodness.  Alright here comes the contradiction, my professor called Ali says that "if there is an ethical hacker, can there be an ethical liar or an ethical murderer

Do you have any programming ideas or challenges that is tough and hard to code that you require help?  Post it at our new page and let us know!