Juhonkoti - Juho Mäkinen’s blog

I recently had a long night debugging this: My application using PHP, Sajax and MySQL truncated messages from the first non-ascii character to the end of the message. For example: if I typed “yö tulee” (finnish sentence means that “night is coming”) only “y” was inserted into the database.
The problem was with Sajax library. Sajax [...]

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I’ve successfully created a Python script which can extract username and login password from a mac running OS X tiger (going to test with leopard asap) via firewire using a linux laptop, based on great paper Hit By A Bus: Physical Access Attacks with Firewire by Adam Boileau. Once the attackers Linux laptop is connected to target machine via firewire, the password can be automaticly extracted from memory via firewire in about 10 seconds.

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I recently installed WPG2 and Gallery2 to my block to manage the photos and images which are related to my blog entries and generally to store the photos taken by me. I found WPG2 quite good, but it lacked a feature I missed: To display random images from an album which is related to a [...]

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