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  Welcome to the Phurix research and development labs. Here you'll find our experiments and findings as part of our on going Internet engineering.

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Domain Slamming

Posted on July 21, 2011 by James Wade

Ever received one of those domain renewal notices from companies such as “Domain Registry of America” or “Domain Renewal Group” claiming that your domain is about to expire and you need to renew with them?

We’ve had them too, a lot of people have and this has been going on for a very long time.

Why has nobody done anything about this?

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eggtcl project

Posted on July 19, 2011 by admin

I’m pleased to announce that the eggdrop TCL scripts from the HM2K code repository will become part of the eggtcl project.

The eggtcl project is a repository of approved TCL scripts for eggdrop that allow you to easily update them as new versions are released.

The plan is to maintain a library collection of good quality eggdrop tcl scripts to ensure the longevity of this project and the eggdrop project.

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Announcing Phurix Labs

Posted on July 14, 2011 by admin

I’ve been thinking about retiring this site for some time now, but have been toying with the pros and cons.

A decision had to be made.

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Posted in Business, Development, Hardware, Internet, Security, Software, Sysadmin | Tagged phurix | Leave a comment

Has friendster been hacked?

Posted on June 1, 2011 by admin

I noticed an unusual email when I checked my Gmail account today.

Sure it was spam, but this one was tagged with a “Password” tag, a tag that I used to filter any emails that contain an old password.

Low and behold there was my password displayed right in the email. So, of course, the first thing to do was to check the email headers to see how the email was routed.

I could not believe it! Continue reading →

Posted in Security | Tagged email, friendster, hacked, password, security, spam | 7 Comments

Converting your logo to ASCII art

Posted on May 25, 2011 by admin

If you’re a geek like me or you’ve just  seen Iron Man 2 you’ll probably like the idea of having a custom motd display something cool when you login to your shell or terminal server.

Sure, you can use figlet to create a text banner, but how cool would it be if you could display your own logo instead. Right?

Can an image be converted into ASCII art?

Challenge accepted.

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Posted in Development, Internet | Tagged ascii, ascii art, figlet, irc, jpg, logo, pablodraw, putty, shell | Leave a comment ← Older posts Newer posts →