Aside from being a superb MRTG and smokeping backend, rrdtools is a surprisingly good database and graphing tool for scientific an technical applications, which in my case, it’s for storing and charting pilot scale reactors process variables. We all know that the Win32 binaries for RRDtool on its website is rarely updated, if at all, [...]
Apparently a zero day PDF exploit is still on the wild, targeting unpatched Adobe Acrobat users. Here’s an actual exploited PDF file (with the XMP payload removed to prevent script kiddies from using it): Viruscan: http://virusscan.jotti.org/en/scanresult/ac0da53fe0e1ba5a0cece750df99facf167c4f84
Enjoy! Tutorial will come soon! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWIJdOv3bdQ
I recently purchased a digital multimeter from Maplin which was on sales at that time: Precision Gold N56FU. Being a full sized autoranging multimeter with computer interface, this meter £44.99 seems to worth every penny. Of course, Maplin didn’t make this meter. Some Chinese dudes did. Maplin just rebranded the meter because E-SUN sounded too [...]
Today, particle physicist at CERN LHC (Large Hadron Collider) will smash two streams of protons, accelerated at near the speed of light, together to form what hopefully, would be a microscopic blackhole or some sort. People around the world have voiced their concerns regarding the experiment, citing the danger of that microscopic blackhole gobbling up [...]