A visit to the Veterinarian.

One of our regular contributors, Meatloaf T. Cat sent us a picture. He visited the vet on Saturday and had some blood test. The good news is that Meatloaf is fine.

Dreamhost forces password reset due to security issue.

Security advisory from Dreamhost from January 20th, 2012: Changing Shell/FTP Passwords due to Security Issue

Last night we detected some unauthorized activity within one of our databases. While we don’t have evidence that customer passwords were taken at this time, we’re forcing a change out of caution.

If you are Dreamhost customer, you should change your password on the side of caution.

On related note, Dreamhost apparently saves password in clear text.

 

Gallery: Web Censorship Protest Pages.

January 18th, 2012

Numbers of sites joined the protest against Web Censorship and the proposed bills namely SOPA and PIPA.

WordPress (wordpress.com):

Google (google.com):

WikiPedia (en.wikipedia.org):

Zachary Johnson | zachstronaut (stop-sopa template):

Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff.org):

Boing Boing (boingboing.net):

Metal Archives (metal-archives.net):

Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)

CyanogenMod (cyanogenmod.com):

Mozilla (mozilla.com):

Mojang, maker of Minecraft (mojang.com):

Free Software Foundation (fsf.org):

Modernmethod | Destructoid (modernmethod.com | destructoid.com):

Imgur (imgur.com):

Cheezburger (cheezburger.com):

craigslist (craigslist.org):

reddit (reddit.com):

Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) (blumenauer.house.gov):

The Daily WTF (http://thedailywtf.com/):

Wired (wired.com):

4chan (4chan.org):

MacInTouch (macintouch.com):