So, I searched high and low on the Kobo and Borders websites for the firmware upgrade that fixes the text zoom problem (among other issues). I even signed up for Kobo’s early-bird program to get the firmware before others. They never actually sent me the link to download the firmware, but I did [...]
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My Favorite OS?
Here’s an excerpt from an email exchange I had with a friend recently:
See, here’s the thing, I’m not a *-guy. I use whatever computer will most easily let me get my work done given the constraints of my environment. That’s why I keep this crappy XP box around for corporate email. If [...]
Developing with winpcap and Eclipse
So I recently needed to develop some pcap applications on Windows machines. I do development on a variety of platforms (OSX, Linux, and Windows), and I’ve been trying to ’standardize’ on one IDE. Since Eclipse runs on all of those platforms and has support for a variety of programming languages, it seemed like [...]
Erin’s Etsy Store
Check out Erin’s new Etsy store where she sells jewelry and other crafts that she makes.
Obtaining Operating System Discs From Dell
Up until recently, Dell did not ship OS discs with their computers. However, if you request the discs, they will send them to you even if your warranty has expired. Finding the link to request the ‘Backup Discs’ can be a bit tricky, so I’ll post it here.
Black Hat DC 2009 trip report
Presentations and whitepapers can be found here.
New Tricks for Defeating SSL in Practice – Moxie Marlinspike (Mike Benham)
This talk started off with an explanation of a vulnerability that Benham exposed in 2002. Basically, some CAs did not explicity set the basicConstraints field in leaf node certificates (site certs) and web browsers were not verifying the [...]
Pictures from New Zealand and Australia
New Zealand
Australia
My uncannily bad luck with 50/50s
So, I was over at Angry Eric’s the other night, and we decided to play Trivial Pursuit. The teams started out being me versus 8 other people, but eventually got whittled down to 1 on 4 (all the girls ran away). I had some lucky rolls, and I completed my pie pretty quickly [...]
Winter Hiking in Shenandoah
My pal Steve is heading down to South America for a few months and he bought a hiking backpack to take on the Inca trail. He wanted to load it up with his gear and try it out in Shenandoah, so I joined him with the bag I used in Europe (filled with food).
After [...]
Impending snow DoS
Well, it appears that winter finally caught up with me. They’re calling for 4-8″ of snowww tomorrow. At first, I thought this was going to DoS my grand errand plans for tomorrow, but now the weather guessers are saying that they heavy stuff shouldn’t start until 4pm. So assuming I can get [...]