I found an interesting problem today. If I run the DNS Randomness test at work using Doxpara’s widget, our ISP fails this test. If I run the test at DNS-OARC, I get mixed results. Sometimes the source port randomness is good and sometimes it is bad. Hmm… I am guessing our ISP has not patched their DNS yet!
Month: July 2008
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Simple find/replace compared to Advanced search/replace.
Simple find/replace is found in the Edit menu. Its shortcut is control+H. Advanced find/replace is in the Plugins menu, in the TextFX Quick menu. Its shortcut is control+R.
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I finally researched an issue I was having with finding tab, new line, carriage return characters at the beginning of the line. I have an automated SQL procedure to create product data feeds in a tab delimited format. One of the symptoms of a soft SQL failure is that the line will wrap. This situation can be detected by looking for a first character that is either a tab, new line, or carriage return using the regex expression ^[\t\n\r]. . The simple find/replace does not find the problem lines while the Advanced version works as expected.
Quick Picks and Pans on my del.icio.us favorites for last week
Build a Generic Histogram Generator for SQL Server
Histograms help people analyze large amounts of data, whether you display them as tables or as charts. This article shows you how to do both.
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JkDefragGUI – Freeware made by Emiel Wieldraaijer
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VirusTotal – Free Online Virus and Malware Scan
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Meet ratproxy, our passive web security assessment tool
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PCI Requirement 6.6 has merchants gearing up
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- The Histogram Generator for SQL Server looks interesting but I think I will work on making pivot tables easier to use first.
- I tried JkDefrag last week. I like the look and feel of the Auslogics defrag tool. JkDefragGUI makes JkDefrag a little easier to use and adds a few features. Both tools are nice upgrades to the standard defrag tool.
- VirusTotal is a nice way to generate hashes for downloadable files.
- I need to check Ratproxy out. Ultimately I would like to compare this to WebScarab. I need to read this Google document again and play with to figure out why Google re-invented the wheel.
- Microsoft’s contribution to fight against SQL Injection would have been more appreciated if it worked for me. It did not generate a report for me. The program was more than willing to tell me that I did not have it configured properly. When I finally had it configured properly, the result is no report?!
- PCI 6.6 is a mess. I am suspicious that the firewall option will ever be a cost effective solution for retail web servers. My first run at automated code analysis was inconclusive. I believe that low cost automated and manual code analysis are probably the best cost to benefit options.