{"id":156,"date":"2009-01-02T09:58:52","date_gmt":"2009-01-02T07:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.robinward.com\/?p=156"},"modified":"2013-08-15T15:18:05","modified_gmt":"2013-08-15T14:18:05","slug":"personal-2008-it-highligts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robinward.com\/?p=156","title":{"rendered":"Personal 2008 IT highligts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Debian &amp; the predictable random number generator<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ok this proves that even the best server OS out there has some lame security implementations. Lucky for me I only had to replace about a dozen SSH keys&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>Debian was awarded the <a href=\"http:\/\/pwnie-awards.org\/2008\/awards.html\" target=\"_blank\">pwnie award 2008<\/a> in the category <strong>EPIC FAIL<\/strong> for this one at BlackHat 2008.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Exchange 2003 and the Greylisting Bug <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This one actually pissed me off so much, that I will never ever trust a Microsoft MTA again&#8230;. The worst part was the lacking acknowledgement by Microsoft&#8230; At least they decided to release a hotfix after the bug was first reported to them in 2006!!!<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand I dont regret putting a lot of time and effort into postfix afterwards.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Netbooks<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Starting out as a cool little gadget for computer geeks &#8211; the insanely fast development has turned these little machines into a serious alternative for mobile computing.<strong> <\/strong>Im very happy with my Aspire One 110L running Ubuntu 8.10 so far combined with my mobile phone for 3G connectivity. My EEE 701 however only lasted for 2 Months.<\/p>\n<p>Might take a shot at the 10 Inch generation this year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Back to Intel<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After more than 10 years of AMD-CPU dominace in my personal and custom assembled machines (since my Intel Pentium 60) i finally chose an Intel based system again. I guess the price has been an important factor to me all those years. Just for the records:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>AMD 486 SX25<\/li>\n<li>AMD 486\/100 DX4<\/li>\n<li>Intel Pentium 60<\/li>\n<li>AMD K6-2 350 Mhz<\/li>\n<li>AMD K6-2 500 Mhz<\/li>\n<li>AMD Duron 750 Mhz<\/li>\n<li>AMD Athlon 1,2 Ghz<\/li>\n<li>AMD Athlon XP 1,6 Ghz<\/li>\n<li>AMD Athlon 64 XP 3000<\/li>\n<li>AMD Athlon 64 x2 3600<\/li>\n<li>IntelCore 2 Duo E8400<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Debian &amp; the predictable random number generator Ok this proves that even the best server OS out there has some lame security implementations. Lucky for me I only had to replace about a dozen SSH keys&#8230;.. Debian was awarded the pwnie award 2008 in the category EPIC FAIL for this one at BlackHat 2008. Exchange &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/robinward.com\/?p=156\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Personal 2008 IT highligts&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funstuff","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robinward.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robinward.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robinward.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robinward.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robinward.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=156"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/robinward.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":726,"href":"https:\/\/robinward.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions\/726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robinward.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robinward.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robinward.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}