by Robby Pedrica
10 September 2011
Cloud
It seems that Microsoft ( and others ) is intent on validating my cynical view of clouds. The latest Microsoft outage ( last night and this morning again ) was caused by what the company vaguely called a “DNS issue” and affected not just Office 365 but also the consumer services Hotmail and SkyDrive. The [...]
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by Robby Pedrica
7 September 2011
Security
Wow, it really has been a bad week for Certificate Authorities. First DigiNotar gets cracked by a seemingly insistent CA cracker called ComodoHacker; now GlobalSign has stopped processing certificate requests due to possible compromise by the same cracker. It all started in March this year with the Comodo CA breach. Next was StartCom the Israeli [...]
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internet,
Security
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PHP Applications: Pt 2 – phpMyAdmin
by Robby Pedrica 22 September 2011 ApplicationsNo discussion of MySQL is complete without mentioning phpMyAdmin, ( in my opinion ) the best web-based management tool around. PMA has grown from a simple web client to a full featured MySQL management interface with a lot of bells and whistles. The current release of PMA ( 3.4.x ) requires at minimum php 5.2 [...]
Tagged as: Applications, database, internet
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