AOL aims to secure surfing with new Netscape browser - wobei es wohl weniger um securing als insecuring geht: Netscape 8 will identify sites known to be trusted, such as banks, online services and online stores, with a green check mark. These sites by default will be displayed using the IE rendering engine, with most browser technologies enabled to maximize compatibility. The trusted sites list will come from organizations such as Truste, sources said. . Was für eine grossartige Idee. Irgendjemand ausserhalb meines Rechners definiert eine Liste von Sites auf denen das Viren- und Trojanerloch automatisch aktiviert wird. Super Idee. Ganz toll. Ich bin ja auch sowas von scharf darauf jemand anderen bestimmen zu lassen welche Rendering-Engine benutzt wird.
Mannesmann trial: The acquittal must be enough– so even if it were only symbolic, I'd think it good if he himself had to forfeit the 10,000 euros that were awarded to him in the first instance. Of course, it would be even nicer if the Federal Court of Justice then ruled on breach of fiduciary duty after all, but I'm probably hoping in vain for that …
Microsoft: Error in Buffer-Overflow Protection is Not a Vulnerability - sure. Bill Gates wants to make the net more secure. So a bug is simply not declared as a security vulnerability. Never mind that you can catch a Trojan or virus on Windows faster than you can say boo - and that this one can use exactly this hole to knock down the whole nice security system. What nonsense again...
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If it really comes to pass that Scharping runs as BDR president I can only quote the red rascals: folks, try to vote for goat
lighttpd is a small, fast web server with a quite impressive feature set and the clear goal of being faster and more resource-efficient than Apache. CGI, FastCGI, and PHP (via FastCGI) are also supported, making it suitable for dynamic pages as well. Maybe I should take a closer look at it.
leahhttpd is another small web server with a focus on low resource usage and high performance. Here too, there's quite an impressive feature spectrum.
boa is the grandfather of web servers with a performance and resource focus. However, it only offers CGI as an option for dynamic content. So it's better suited for serving purely static content.
Of all three, lighttpd looks the most interesting, among other things because of its good support for interfaces for dynamic content. Especially since the server already has a built-in FastCGI load balancer, making it designed for larger loads right out of the box. And the focus on FastCGI instead of built-in modules offers additional possibilities for security - the FastCGI process can run under a different (restricted) user.
As much as I like Hetzner as a provider, sometimes they come up with weird ideas. Now you can also get additional IPs for your entry server (their starter package). However, these cost a monthly fee per IP - which is actually pretty strange, since IP addresses aren't supposed to be sold according to RIPE - but okay, whatever. I'd be willing to pay a moderate amount for an additional IP.
But the idea that my 250 GB free volume only applies to the main IP and every started GB on the additional IPs has to be paid for, even if there's still plenty of free volume on the main IP - sorry, but that's just plain stupid. That way you end up paying double and triple for the additional IPs. No way. A second IP address for test installations or an isolated chroot jail with isolated software setup isn't that important to me.
In fairness, it should be mentioned that the next larger root server solution from Hetzner does have IPs as needed without a monthly fee. But how the free volume is distributed there, I don't know - it's not clear from their websites anyway.
Well, up until now Hetzner has always surprised me by eventually just dropping strange and absurd ideas and replacing them with sensible solutions (like the long overdue emergency boot system that's now available, or the option for hardware upgrades on the entry server). I'm not giving up hope on the additional IPs either.