Category Archives: Hacks

Firefox 3 and howtoforge.com

March 19, 2008 – 12:07 pm

There is currently a bug in firefox 3 which causes it to crash with an XError BadAloc when you go to any page hosted on howtoforge. This seems to be related to the image at http://howtoforge.com/themes/htf_glass/images/bg_header_bottom_left15.png. I suggest you don’t click on that link Apparently this image is 10,000 pixels wide. It looks like this [...]

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iptables evilness

November 13, 2006 – 8:43 am

Matt came to me with an interesting problem at Bulletproof this week. We have a dedicated hosting customer who talks to an external application for e-commerce. The IP for this was going to change but they needed to do to some testing before the switch. As usual with most enterprise applications, the hostname was hard [...]

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