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OK, I feel ranty
Ah, Boston. Where mid ’70s can be followed by hail and then snow in April. I think it’s snowed in April every year I’ve lived here. It’s been a while since I wrote something of any personal substance here. That ‘something’ usually ends up being a rant, so without further ado… Lately I’ve been an…
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Oh Noes! Text document security vulnerability
Remote Incorrection Vulnerability Affects Textual Internet Documents Why yes, it *is* April 1st, why do you ask? ;-)
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Baby it’s cold outside…
…but I am hatful. Yeah, I think I’ll heep her :-)
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Words of the day: Rez, teledildonics
This weekend I was at J.R.’s place and we installed a hard drive in her PS2. Jordan supplied a memory card containing exploit code which executes from the card when the PS2 begins running most PS1 game discs. From there, you can run arbitrary code, including loaders for the network-attached hard drive, FTP servers, Linux…
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Dark Roast and the Coffee Pod Conspiracy
Who controls the British crown? Who keeps the metric system down? We do! We do! Who leaves Atlantis off the maps? Who keeps the martians under wraps? We do! We do! For the last half-year or so, I and many co-workers have been using a Senseo single-serving coffee machine that someone randomly stuck in the…
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Top Google pagerankers exposed…
Results 1 – 10 of about 25,270,000,000 for -32768. (0.04 seconds) Enter most any query, including a numeric one, into Google and it will return all the pages which contain that term or are pointed to by links containing that term. But not long ago, I couldn’t remember whether -32767 or -32768 was the maximum…
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It’s been beautiful weather in Boston the past couple days…
but still… I couldn’t have said it better myself.
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The food-warming fridge of potential doom
Yeah, so our refrigerator died the other night. Well actually, it’s been slowly dying since the last week*, but nobody really noticed ’til recently when they went for their ice cream and it was all melty. I just thought maybe the freezer door didn’t close all the way, and overnight with a verified closed door…
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Protected: I’m not dead!
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Protected: Ca(non)ical v-day posting
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Protected: …Mr. Anderson, what good is a phone call if you are…unable…to speak.
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Your cellphone battery implements SHA-1, film at 11.
I read an article in EDN yesterday that came as a mild shocker, hashing and cryptography chips designed for embedding in….batteries. Yes, batteries. Specifically, rechargeable battery packs used in cellphones, laptops, cameras and similar consumer devices, allowing the device to reject “unauthorized” replacement batteries. Yes folks, slapping in a replacement battery pack for some discontinued…
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Woo, sneaky… and countersneaky
Some web servers send a site navigation page or other response page with a “HTTP 200 OK” response instead of a “HTTP 404 Not Found” result for page-not-found conditions. To check on web server handling of page-not-found conditions, Slurp will occasionally send deliberately odd URLs built from random words to sites from which no 404…
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I love, hate, love the wall street journal
Some gems from today and yesterday: “Then on Jan. 10, 2001, a deranged catfish farmer went on a rampage in a small Northern California town, killing three people and igniting public outrage.” (Nothing wrong with the sentence [& it was actually a serious article], I just found the mental image amusing [er…except for the people…
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Woo, cexx is back in vogue
The Bricemaster (one of my TSU buddies) pointed me to this tonight. CEXX.org (Counterexploitation) also has excellent forums, is ad free and somewhat broader than Spywareinfo, with links to the anti-spam community. Google to combat spyware – Newsday (Ha, I feel all famous again. Now, if only I had time to actually maintain the darned…
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Come to my office for sound advice…and lynchings!
Our new official EE department mascot Okay, the story behind this: We just got this new whiteboard in for the EE office and asked MP to hang it on the wall. Since it’s replacing an old defunct one, JR set the new one against the wall with “Please hang me” written on it, and the…
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Event horizon
Wizard of Oz: As for you, my galvanized friend, you want a heart. You don’t know how lucky you are not to have one. Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable. Tin Woodsman: But I still want one. I’ve mentioned observability issues far too many times already, so, I’m not going…
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ban_set *
Fucker. An easily-handled fucker, but a fucker nonetheless. Sorry for all of you (on the LJ side) who had to witness that.
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*mostly* just a datestamp entry :-)
And if rain brings winds of change, let it rain on us forever. I have no doubt from what I’ve seen that I have never wanted more. With this line I’ll mark the past as a symbol of beginning. I have no doubt from what I’ve seen that I have never wanted more. Today was…a…
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Protected: On saying goodbye, and all the other words I couldn’t, and in the right order
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