I am always amazed at some of the small things that I think would be easy to find a solution for, seem so ellusive. Today, I needed to run a quick mysqldump of a 100MB database, and I needed to compress it on the fly to gzip so I did not end up with 2 [...]

In a post I made a few months ago: http://baselogic.com/blog/archives/252 I talked about an issue with a RootKit that I had. Well, the truth is, that was just a symptom to an issue. The reality was, I was hacked pretty bad, and really forced to completely start fresh with a complete OS reload, and getting [...]