Deviant Abstraction

I am cited in the IT part of the Journal du Net.

An excerpt in French:

Vous êtes-vous fait aider par des sociétés de services concernant ce travail d’optimisation des requêtes ?
Oui, par une petite société tenue par Nicolas Toper et Luc Bizeul. Ils nous ont aidés à faire des tests de montée en charge, d’analyse de configuration et de détection de points sensibles.

Thanks to 20minutes and Nicolas for having enjoyed so much our work, he mentions us in the press.

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I have rewritten my resume since a lot of recruiters find it unclear. I hope it is better now and I welcome your feedback.

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My contract with SmApper is soon over. I am therefore looking for a job. I have therefore updated my resume.

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” François Chérèque : La politique de l’emploi est ciblée sur le coût du travail avec des allégements de charges sur les bas salaires, d’où une concentration des bas salaires énorme. On a augmenté le nombre des smicards (17% des salariés) et on a 50% des salariés qui gagnent moins de 1480 euros par mois net. Les entreprises n’ont pas intérêt à former leurs salariés, car s’ils les forment, ils doivent les payer plus. Le processus bloque l’économie.”

Je me sens une légitimité pour aborder cette question puisque je viens de la formation continue en cours du soir (et après tout c’est un blog donc pourquoi ai-je besoin d’une légitimité pour aborder un sujet). Au cours de mon parcours au CNAM et en entreprise (je travaillais à mi-temps durant cette période), je confirme ce diagnostic de M. Chérèque (dont je ne partages pas d’habitude les analyses). C’est exactement ce que j’ai vu. Par exemple, mes deux anciens employeurs ont fait beaucoup pour me dissuader de terminer mes études. Ma solution? Je travaille à l’étranger…

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I was with my company at Oktoberfest in Münich. This was a lot of fun and my first time ever.

Of course, I have taken a lot of pictures. Here they are.

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I am in Paris from Thursday afternoon to Monday. So if you are in the neighborhood and want to see me, fire me an email.

I am looking forward to it.

(Nice pic from K R Fulton, click on it to see more of his work)

I was in the middle of my migration from Dedibox to Dreamhost. I did it for cost and time reasons (this time the server is shared so I just have to update my applications not the system). I backup my files, save them locally…

While uploading them to my new hosts, I see some weird htaccess files owned by root in the transfer log. I never wrote them. Weird, let us see what they are maybe they are written by my webapplications…

A htaccess file can redirect all web requests to another server. Root is the user on *nix system with all the rights.

After reading those files, I was sure I never set them up. They were redirecting every visitor coming from a search engine to a porn site (I simplify a little bit).

This means my webserver had been compromised. The hacker had all full control of my server so he could have deployed new PHP scripts in the middle of my applications. The new hypothetical scripts could give him access to my new system. For instance, my new hosting provider. I had to review every line I imported to my new hoster to make sure I did not import a backdoor.

I imported the bare minimal system (in this blog case: database export and skins) and reinstalled everything from scratch. This took me only a week (well I have a real job also)

Of course, some friends (Luc and Fred) warn me about weird redirection… But I was in the middle of my DNS redirection and they were using Google and Firefox (which often redirect by itself using the first result of Google).

The lesson of all that: listen to your friends…

I am back. Please accept my apologies for the interruption of service. I will explain later what happened. Please contact me in case of any weird things you see.

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My blog is moving from one host to another for cost reasons. If you see any issue, please report them to me.

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