Archive for the “Linux” category

Happy 20th Birthday, Linux!

by AJ on August 25, 2011

“Today is a very special day for Linux, for it is precisely 20 years ago on this very day Linus Torvalds sat down at his computer to share word of his ‘hobby’ operating system to users of Minix – a (…)

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Facebook is bigger than Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Turkey combined

by AJ on January 8, 2009

Yes you are reading that right, Facebook is bigger than Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Turkey combined in terms of population. Facebook has a staggering count of 150 million users according to Mark Zuckerberg (Founder, Facebook). Country population breakdown: Turkey (…)

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SURF JACK: Even HTTPS will not save you

by AJ on August 11, 2008

There’s a new security tool that Surf Jack that allows one to hijack HTTP connections to steal cookies – even ones on HTTPS sites. Works on both Wifi (monitor mode) and Ethernet. Here’s a proof of concept to steal session (…)

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Woopra is a breath of fresh air for web analytics

by AJ on June 11, 2008

I’m probably one of the first early users to get access to Woopra‘s beta couple of months ago. Quite frankly, I didn’t use it. I felt Woopra wasn’t going to be as good as what we currently use (Google Analytics). (…)

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PHP Everywhere Conference Programme

by AJ on November 30, 2007

  7:30 8:00 Registration     8:30 8:40 Welcome and Opening Remarks Host / Emcee   8:40 9:00 PHP User Group Introduction Pres / VP all officers   9:00 9:20 Keynote Speaker Dr. Alvin Marcelo   9:20 9:40 Break / (…)

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