A couple of days back I logged into CloudFlare and noticed that they are using a new captcha system on the login page, hCaptcha. Now if you have been on the internet long enough, you would have encountered Google’s reCaptcha… Continue Reading
Having purchased the Ubiquiti EdgeRouter ERPOE-5 router awhile back, I have upgraded my home network’s capabilities as a whole. In addition to a Web Admin UI to configure the router, there is a console port for a physical access to… Continue Reading
Recently, I’ve upgraded the database of this blog from MySQL to MariaDB. For those of you who are not aware, MariaDB is a fork from MySQL by the original founder of MySQL. MariaDB 5.5 is fully compatible with MySQL 5.5… Continue Reading
Got 3 more Tritium zip markers from Traser Watches and in addition, a large kit marker. The large kit marker is huge! And it’s very bright compared to the zip markers, I feel like I’m gonna get cancer just by… Continue Reading
I found out a very cool configuration trick for OpenVPN while doing some read-up on OpenVPN encryption key size. In the middle of the thread, one of the user, “300000”, posted his/her configuration settings. The part that caught my eye… Continue Reading
Brainfart.SG was taken down for almost a month since last April, due to my VPS being exploited. The reason I believe is due to a misconfiguration of the webserver. Somebody managed to install a backdoor in the VPS and then… Continue Reading
The awesome thing about Android phones, is the amount of customisation you can do to it, so much so that it is almost entirely a different phone from the original one you got. After spending hours installing a custom ROM… Continue Reading
Came across a very interesting service today while trying to setup Sender Policy Framework (SPF) for my work email domain. Port25 Solutions*, an email infrastructure software provider, has a service that helps check the sender authenticity of your email service… Continue Reading