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1234567890

"What time is it?" - "1234567890"

That's how thw answer to one of the most usual questions may be at the moment. 1234567890 is the Unix time at the moment I'm publishing this entry. It the last remarkable number for a long time - 2222222222 will be reached on June 2nd, 2040, on 05:57:02 (CEST).

in my own account

My hosting provider just told me, that there will be maintenance outages this night (from Tue, december 9th 2008 to Wed, december 10th 2008) so my virtual server may be unavailable.

The visitors are hereby informed, have a nice evening!

Forked To Hell

Forking programs are quite nice regarding the possibility to create subprocesses for parallel computing or to make good use of Multi-Core- or Multi-CPU-Systems. But you can really shoot yourself in the knee with that!

Ubuntu? I'm going to learn Ubuntu?

Joey Stanford seemed to be a bit surprised that this video didn't make it into any Planet yet: The Matrix Runs on Windows

Drupal Module with holes

The Drupal Site Documentation Module [1] bears a Security Sole that allows access to sensitive Data of your Drupal Installation says Secunia [2] and Drupal.org [3].

This Module displays Content of arbitrary Tables of Drupal's Database. This can be misused to get the Session-IDs of logged-in Users as well as Usernames, hashed Passwords and E-Mail Adresses.

Shutdown Day

Can you survive for 24 hours without your computer?

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