Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Security Vulnerability in Solaris 10 SCTP INIT Processing
Multiple Security Vulnerabilities in JavaScript Engine in Mozilla 1.7 for Solaris 8, 9 and 10

Categories: Security Updates

I was recently helping a developer with some SQL optimizations in Ruby. The developer was using Active Record, and (until now) my Active Record experience has been pretty minimal.
One thing that was really driving me bonkers was how to get Active Record to print out the queries it was building. I was certain [...]

Categories: Programming

Microsoft Corporation

URL Handling Vulnerability in Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 with Windows Internet Explorer 7 Could Allow Remote Code Execution

Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Security Vulnerability in Solaris 10 OpenSSL SSL_get_shared_ciphers() Function

Categories: Security Updates

This is a bit of random oddness I stumbled upon this morning.
I was working on a Cisco Catalyst 2960 switch and needed to know which MAC addresses the device had learned on a particular interface. The usual way to do this is with the show mac-address-table interface command. While I was typing I [...]

Categories: Networking

Interesting news from around the web for 2007-10-25:

Groups of Fibre Channel Ports May Be Impacted When Upgrading to SAN-OS 3.0(x) or SAN-OS 3.1(x) on DS-X9016 and DS-X9032 [Cisco MDS 9000 Series Multilayer Switches] - Cisco SystemsGroups of Fibre Channel ports may not come up after the software upgrade to SAN-OS 3.0(x) or SAN-OS 3.1(x) [...]

Categories: Tech Messages