UPDATE: I rewrote the whole script. You can find it here!

I wanted to get into Python recently and to have a reason to actually learn the language, I thought to myself, why not replace the bash-scripts I use on my private computer. I started with my backup script, that …

The announcement of the recent attacks on Tor-users that exploit a Firefox vulnerability in Javascript suggested some things to remain anonymous whilst using Tor, such as disabling JavaScript, using the most recent versions of Firefox, install firewalls and so on. One interesting measure named was to often change your MAC …

UPDATE: Google no longer supports spdy. Instead it focuses on http/2. This blog-post is no longer up-to-date.

Today I tested nginx with Google’s spdy implementation.I already tested pagespeed separatly in a different post that showed the speed-boost gained from it. Now to add the security for you …

When I initially set up my server for this blog and my small photography-website I didn’t really think about securing it against attacks. But one day I looked into the “secure”-logfile of my server and was greeted with this:

Apr 24 04:38:23 vps9533 sshd[21882]: pam_unix …

Allan McRae, Pacman developer, found an interesting small tool, called Distro Picker. This tool finds the Linux-Distribution based on what you prefer as a Desktop Environment, Package Manager and other settings.

When I tried it out, it offered me my current distro: Arch Linux, so interestingly, it works really well …