Thinking out loud about cars, computers and security
It seems that over the last few months, SunOracle have finally fixed some of the most annoying bugs in VirtualBox:
Several months ago, I virtualized most of the services running on tim.des.no, so www.des.no now runs in a jail and has its own IP.
This morning, I discovered that I had forgotten to stop the Varnish instance that ran on tim.des.no, and that it was still getting traffic. I looked at the logs, and most of it was what you’d expect (attack bots looking for known vulnerabilities in various web servers or apps which I don’t run), but I certainly did not expect this: Continue reading “Is “baidu” Japanese for “WTF”?”
Top left: “10-day forecast: come May, beautiful and cold”
Right: “The last spasms of winter are over—At last!—Here comes the sun”
Glad to see I’m not the only one pissed off by this. I found a useful article on this topic on the Microsoft Update Product Team’s blog. The article was written back in the Vista days, but the procedure is the same in Windows 7, except that it’s much quicker to type “Edit Group Policy” in the Start menu search box than to try to find it in the Control Panel.