BAM is a company that provides services to Students Unions around the country primarily dealing with union websites. My Students’ Guild signed up with them last year to provide our website, from the off I was quite opposed to the move anticipating it would turn into a complete joke which, naturally, it has. BAM uses their own proprietary in house developed content management system, from the outside it looks bloody awful and I am reliably informed that the administration side of things is worse. Last month a meeting was held to discuss the Guild website and what was wrong with it, the general consensus was — everything. Pushed on by this I decided to take a poke around and see if I could find any vulnerabilities, I didn’t have to look hard, it only took me 10 minutes to find the first. I found two more before I decided I would stop in case I scared myself senseless.
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BAM Vulnerabilities
Thursday, December 4th, 2008Back to Exeter
Monday, September 29th, 2008The time has come once more for me to return to Exeter, for my final year of my undergraduate Computer Science degree. I’m looking forward to moving in with new people so much, to be honest I have been wanting to go back for quite a while now. Fairly exhausted from all the travelling and work I’ve been doing lately, need to catch up on some sleep. This is all for now, new desktop wallpaper soon I hope, and a backdated post about the visit to Hethel. 
Quiet
Friday, August 29th, 2008So I’ve been fairly quiet for the past month, whoops. I’ve had a fairly relaxed holiday, not doing much of anything, its been the break I’ve needed though. I’ve got a while to go before I am back to university which I hopefully can spend doing some items on my list of things to do. I can’t say that life has been all sunshine and smiles, firstly because its been raining lots and because I keep getting various shit thrown at me when I least expect it which is occupying my time much than I would like. I’ve got some work on phpBB to do, which is really bugging me because I haven’t had the mindset or time to sit down and do it, its starting to make me feel bad inside. I’ve also got some X-Media work I should do, once again not enough time. I hoped I could get some stuff done this weekend but I’ve not been able to sleep too well the past two days so I am fairly tired.
Man detonates bomb in Exeter café toilet…
Saturday, May 24th, 2008… and only succeeds in giving himself facial lacerations.
On Thursday 22nd of May a man from Plymouth detonated a device in a café toilet in the newly redeveloped Princesshay shopping area of Exeter. The device was apparently so pathetic some customers in the café did not even hear it. Police sealed off the surrounding area including the High street and the bus station, the main train station (St. David’s) had armed police deployed with all toilet and waiting room facilities locked.
Further news coverage:
I forgot…
Monday, April 28th, 2008… about this. Well more likely is I am just being too lazy. But it has been quite a while since I wrote anything of much substance up here, currently I am unable to sleep which sucks somewhat. I’ve been very busy as of late, I’ve finished my quite frankly ludicrous 5 week “Easter” “break” where I did not much but work, bum around, and drove places. So I am back at the grindstone that is university, ploughing through coursework at such a rate I guess I could describe as “relaxed” but that maybe pushing definition boundaries. I’m looking forward to next week when the last of my coursework is handed in and I am free to revise for exams, oh heck!
I’ve had a new desktop for the latter part of April inspired by a trip to Weston’s Cider of Much Marcle, Herefordshire over me holiday.
I am moving towards a landmark on last.fm, 100 000 tracks played. Not decided what will be my 100 000th track hopefully I don’t go over it by mistake with something non-worthy.
I leave you with the thought, why would a dairy company write “Allergy information: contains milk” on the side of a bottle of milk? Surely that is the whole idea? Or maybe I am missing something…
AWOL
Sunday, August 19th, 2007I have been away from my blog for quite a while, general laziness on my behalf. I’ve been fairly ‘busy’ by my own standards working part time, doing some project work, playing games, sleeping and socialising. My summer is panning out quite nicely, and I am now wanting to return to Exeter for my second year, the sooner the better. I am just about to apply the Wordpress upgrade that has been released in my absence, and reading the dumper truck load of e-mails that I have received. Fun.
Absent
Thursday, July 12th, 2007I have been neglecting my blog over the past couple of weeks, really a combination of laziness, forgetfulness, and other signs of uselessness. Saying that though, I now have a job, working at Tesco, oh the joys! Although it will probably help me loose weight scanning food all day kinda does the opposite of what I expected it would. Some of the things customers purchase are rather off putting, they are generally wet, slimey and should be in the sea. Also discovered Indian newspapers are somewhat biased but just ever so slightly! I also got my degree results for my first year 2:1 whoop!
One Word
Saturday, June 16th, 2007Free! Finally all three of my exams are over, a little earlier than expected but no matter still happy! Shame I felt so ill last night, didn’t go out and get smashed 
Oh well there is always tonight!
Network Manager and University of Exeter VPN
Saturday, May 19th, 2007So, at home currently rather than at university, this poses a problem when trying to connect to some resources, such as internal machines and private resources. I know Network Manager in Ubuntu has VPN support but I had never tried it out, so, I gave it a go. Issue the following command to install the required package, provides Microsoft VPN support to Network Manager.
$ sudo aptitude install network-manager-pptp
Now you can load my configuration by downloading the configuration file and click on the network manager applet, find the VPN Connections
sub menu and hit Configure VPN…
. Hit Forward
, from the list choose PPTP tunnel
, press Forward
again and now press Import Saved Configuration…
. Find the configuration file I told you to download and select it, now press Forward
and then click Apply
. Bingo!
Dear Blog
Thursday, February 22nd, 2007I have missed thee.
You see I have had no ResNet (the network connection in my room) access today, from 11am till ~5:20pm, rising time till end of Blue Peter. The problem effected our block only and was quite severe, no contact with anything at all! More annoyingly I set aside today to do work I needed to catch up on which required network access. So I had to trek to the, with its crap Dell keyboards and Windows, and program on them. *sigh*
In other news … went to the Cinema and saw Hot Fuzz amazing film, stupidly comical and outrageously well written. Loved it.
