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Posted by Adrian Caulfield [2/28/2009 8:38:36 PM] Just so everyone doesn't think I've been slacking off too much :), and so that Nick's comment on my last post isn't quite accurate. I've been busy getting ready to present my first conference talk the week after next. The talk is about the paper my research group wrote. Its about using flash memory to optimize data intensive applications - think map reduce and petabyte scale data processing - using flash memory. We get some great performance and power efficiency gains. You should read the paper.
Alumni Updates, Part 1 Posted by Adrian Caulfield [3/1/2008 11:45:36 PM] Tonight I posted the first of a series of updates to the Alumni site, TritonAlumni.info. This update includes the following changes: *The site has been converted to C#, from VB. *Updated to .NET Framework 3.5 *The database has been redesigned, making it more flexible and extensible *Several new fields were added to the profiles, including Interests, Activities, a Website URL, and the ability to have as many IM accounts as you wish *All accounts were shifted to use a new multi-site login system I've been working on. *Validation checks on entered data were improved *An option to no display your email address was added *Color scheme was updated on some of the pages The new login system allows one user to have a single login that can be used across many sites, in much the same way as Microsoft LiveID (passport). Currently there are only a few sites of mine using this, but if you've got an alumni profile, you can now login to MyBarMonkey.net and eventually this site. Several profiles were skipped during the update from the old site to the new one, this was the result of restrictions that each profile must have a unique email address. The option to not display an email address is the first step in a plan allowing one alumni to send a message to another even if their email address is not displayed on the site. Basically you can send a message through the site, and the recipient will get an email. Let me know what you think, and if you find any bugs!
Hello, My Treacherous Friends Posted by Adrian Caulfield [3/1/2008 11:34:40 PM] It's always fun to catch people trying to hack your systems. In this case, I had someone running a dictionary attack on my SQL Server installation. The first thing I have to say is, the port is now closed, so don't bother checking :P. Second, if you're going to try and hack... be smart about it. By default any new installation of SQL Server 2005 only allows Windows accounts to login, not 'sa', not 'admin', just those members of the Administrators group on your server. Anyway, I've blocked the offending IPs and closed the port. Unfortunately it'll put a damper on my chuckling at the few hundred events a minute. I saw an article about SQL attacks the other day which stated that about 70% of all mallicious traffic on the net is targeted at SQL servers, even though there are very few remaining exposed servers.
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