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Monthly Archives: April 2009

South Koreans not allowed to upload to Youtube

While digging through youtube html for another project I came upon this interesting error message. msg[“koreaFail”] = “본인확인제로 인해 한국 국가 설정시 동영상/댓글 업로드 기능을자발적으로 비활성화합니다. We have voluntarily disabled this functionality on kr.youtube.com because of the Korean real-name verification law.”; I looked into this a bit more and South Korea seems to have rallied […]

Personal Disclosure Update

I’ve decided to step down from the Advisory Board of the SourceBoston conference. I still think that it is a fantastic project but I have been so busy with academic projects and class work that I couldn’t give them enough time. I’m also not going to be a regular columnist at SecurityFocus after this month. […]

Storing IP Addresses in MySQL with ruby/rails

A recent project has me thinking about storing of IP addresses in mysql. The natural tendency is to store it as text. My first attempt stored the address as char(16) with a normal index to help speed searches against it. After some reading about high performance MySQL techniques I was reminded that IP addresses in […]