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SensorTag2 is about 30 euros at Mouser: http://www.mouser.fi/ProductDetail/Texas-Instruments/CC2650STK/?qs=sGAEpiMZZMvzv9EAOJZmO9jCa%2f7ZiU4XhAFqCiEJ5X8%3d or $29 directly from TI: https://store.ti.com/cc2650stk.aspx To control these from Linux, you need to have Bluetooth Low Energy...

Looks like there was a quite big increase in service prices. My miniwebhosting.co.uk £18.00/year cpanel service was mapped to Astutium's Business-CPanel-1 service, which costs £14.95/month. Likewise, my minivps.co.uk £50.00/year KVM server was mapped to VDS-KVM-4, which costs £68.40/month. I...

I use Yubikeys, but I don't really use any special (desktop/mobile) applications except Yubico Authenticator for Android (similar to Google Authenticator, but works with Yubikey NEOs). I have one standard (USB) Yubikey at home, NEO with me in my keychain, and a few backup keys, in case I lose...

I think Python is one of those programming languages you should know (at least partially) even if you don't need to use actively. It is good for prototyping and there is a lot of stuff written in it already. I am not a real webdev, but for my small web apps, I use Flask (instead of Django)...

Finnish news magazines have been reporting today that Finnish teenager "Ryan" (Lizard Squad member) got 2 year suspended sentence (ehdollinen vankeusrangaistus) for hacking over 50k servers and other related crimes. He was under 18, so the punishment was pretty small, but there are still some...

OpenBSD's httpd is my preferred server these days. It does not have many features, so I use nginx for more complex setups.

I also vote for Javascript for the web stuff. Although, once you have learned the basics, you want to change to something more interesting like Dart, CoffeeScript, or ClojureScript. On the other hand, once my kids learn to read and write, I most likely will teach them Ada and Python. Ada is...

Ada Web Server ( AWS - http://libre.adacore.com/tools/aws/ ) is a web server written in Ada programming language. Debian has it packaged, you can install libaws* packages via apt-get. Sometimes, I also use the http server bundled in libevent...

Waveride.at - 3 MiniVPS.co.uk - 1 MyCustomHosting - 1 HM: Edis.at - I am still amazed how stable my dedicated server has been there.

I (like many others here, I assume) have way too many idle or underused virtual servers and web hosting accounts. I should either get rid of them or actually setup the services which I have planned to run on them. In addition, I have spent this year playing with various Cortex-M0/3/4 ARM...

Another vote for Pelican from here. I use it for several blogs (some with disqus comments, some without comments). The theming options are good and it is quite easy to create custom themes. The content is written either in Markdown or reStructuredText and can be easily kept in version control...

FTDI FT232 chip shows serial port pins (uart tx/rx) found from many microcontrollers and bigger processors as USB serial console. It is available in many forms, like as cables, small breakout boards, or embedded into various devices (Arduino Duemilanove, for example). Premium...

As reported around the net, the new FTDI driver seems to kill fake FTDI FT232 chips: http://www.eevblog.com/forum/reviews/ftdi-driver-kills-fake-ftdi-ft232/ http://hackaday.com/2014/10/22/watch-that-windows-update-ftdi-drivers-are-killing-fake-chips/...

My OpenBSD 5.3 dedicated server at EDIS.at had 360d uptime when I upgraded it to 5.5. OpenBSD rarely has remotely (or even locally) exploitable kernel bugs, so as long as you don't allow other users on your server, you can avoid rebooting quite long time. Current uptime is "only" 157 days...

I have been reading http://www.gpf-comics.com for 14 years or so. One nice point is that the comic has quite regular (Mon, Wed, Fri) schedule and rarely have big breaks.

I also saw the unedited version and PoC shown there by OP was pretty harmless. In addition, bash isn't suid binary and running it on your account limits the damage to what you can access by yourself.

Here is a related message from openSUSE mailing list: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.suse.opensuse.project/15395

The script kiddies which break into or ddos servers (usually not my own, but it is annoying if provider itself is the target).

Background: I was running one of my blogs on a shared host web server at A Small Orange. After it was purchased by EIG, I started to look for alternatives. Finally I found out miniwebhost.co.uk run by Martin-D. Since he was (and still is) one of the VPSBoard moderators, I assumed that he knows...

Thank you all. And special thanks to MannDude, I received the money ($250 / 181.35 EUR) to my Paypal account just a moment ago. I was planning to do one additional review, but ran out of time. I'll probably add that at some point next week.