Welcome to The Serpent
Welcome to the third major overhaul The Serpent has gone through in the last ten years! This signifies the biggest change since the sites launch, as we boldy go towards a simpler, cleaner, more vibrant and managable style (after brushing up on CSS of course!). We hope you find the changes an improvement, and that they help make this site much easier to use.
Clean, fast and simple is what we want The Serpent to be, after much soul searching, we found it would be easier to provide regular updates now that the layout is more stable, meaning articles can be published quickly with a consistent feel to them. We hope you enjoy, and of course... feedback is welcome.
So long ATI
Tuesday 31st August, 2010The death of an old friend
AMD have announced that they're finally killing off the ATI brand. For those of you who have been building PC's for years (and bouncing between ATI and nVidia), it almost feels like the death of an old friend. Some great cards have been produced under the ATI brand, and with the introduction of AMD's new Fusion technology,...
Fun with DLL Hijacking
Sunday 29th August, 2010This time, Microsoft's not entirely to blame
We've been having lots of fun here at The Serpent testing out some of the most common exploits to surface in the last few weeks. DLL hijacking has been around for quite sometime, but only recently has the ease of which it can be exploited become known.
DLL Hijacking basically works by replacing a valid DLL with your own malicious code. The weakness comes from the applications methods of locating...
XAMPP For Windows
Monday 23rd August, 2010Your 'all in one' Server
We took a look at XAMPP - the one stop solution to hosting a website development platform, after yet another PHP installation on Windows Server 2003 went completely wrong, leaving us with half an Apache installation, no sign of PHP and a MySQL installation as vulnerable as a turkey at Christmas!
Take a look at our article detailing our findings in using...
The Windows that won't die
Monday 16th August, 2010RIP Windows XP SP2
For those of you still clinging to the old tried and tested ways of Windows XP, you probably heard that anything below Service Pack 3 is no longer supported. Not new news - since Microsoft announced this back in July, but still it does rattle some peoples cages, and I would love to take the opportunity to ask you all.. "What's the big f*cking deal bitch!?"
A recent online conversation with computer...
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