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Well well i hope i will manage to sleep tonight, the whole kdc vendor network bugged itself in the middle of the afternoon after some guy tried (and succeeded) executing his code on my server through a joomla exploit, wich allowed him to, I assume, escalate privileges to root on my dated kernel using, yet another exploit.

That’s the second breach in the same joomla installation in two weeks but this time it really gave me cold sweats.

The said installation is completely disabled now until it’s owner either patch the exploit or get away with joomla altogether.

Well if you wanted a reason not to use joomla -_-

Everything else is back, up and running…

… for now.

Okay before anybody asks this post is solely about real life.

Sometimes i feel moving to a new place is made needlessly harder than it should be…
Yesterday, probably due to the roadwork that is going on around my city block every single days of the year, we had a power outage of a bout 20 minutes.
After the power cam back on i discovered with aprehention that my DSL modem stays stuck on an error code.

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I forgot to renew my domain name , wich tossed all the vendors in offline mode.

No panic i’m NOT leaving sl just yet.

Just wanted to say that i’m back, and well, i need to decide what to do now…

It seems my connection is acting up since a few days, i won’t log in SL or make anything new until it gets fixed.

I will post when the situation is resolved.

I don’t like that, i really don’t but i have to cut the losses, i’m Selling the land in livigno.

I just spent a little more than 12 hours on upgrading my dedicated server, apache changed configuration AGAIN so i used a lot of time just to understand what was wrong in my configuration.

Now everything seems back to normal.

Here is a little summary of the sapper work the government majority worked on during the last 5 years. Apparently for some peoples giving up citizen freedom to curb violence and terrorism is a fair trade. Sometimes i wonder why i am still part of this country. Today might be the first stone that will entomb the freedom of information on the French internet. A sad and dark day indeed.

Sometimes you wonder what else will happen, well i finally had enough of my graphic card problems. It seems in my never ending luck i apparently got a defective graphic card. And it is raging on me since like 3 months.

Well i have enough of it now, so i ordered an NVIDIA 8800gtx 🙂
Now i just have to cross fingers that it was really the problem.

okay i submitted the disk to a tech to get the data recovered, he say he couldn’t recover much and that the disk might have electromechanical issues… yeah, maybe, anyway i don’t think the data i was wishing to get back is worth a trip to the lab wich will cost between 500 and 1000€

I am gonna write this as a lesson, it could have been much worse.

I am probably lucky to have a 3 months old backup, not everything is lost this way.

Anyway, show must go on, so i will stop worrying about my data now as it’s prolly lost for good. Time to get some KDC work done ^^