How trackable is your browser?

January 28th, 2010

Check out project Panopticlick, they are investigating how a browser can create a unique fingerprint which enables users to be tracked, even with cookies disables or deleted… They also provide some tips to minimize the uniqueness of your browser.

My browser is estimated to have a fingerprint that conveys at least 16.08 bits of identifying information.

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Fun with Java: Log4j appender using notify-send on ubuntu

January 18th, 2010

I’ve discovered yet another -maybe quite useless- trick to combine java-development, JBoss AS and Ubuntu (or any other debian-based distro).

I created a very simple log4j-appender which used notify-send (commandline-tool for libnotify) to report errors. This way I will get a visual notification when something went wrong, immediately showing the class of the error and the message.

As an example, I use my favorite Application Server, JBoss AS, but any java-app using log4j (or commons-logging on top of log4j or slf4j-log4j) will do.

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