Some of the projects I am working on require that I gather data about particular addresses on the Internet. One method I’ve been experimenting with is scapy’s traceroute function which allows for neat graphing [secdev.org]. One can also combine two arbitrary traceroutes for graphing as simply as: traceroute1, unans = traceroute([1.2.3.4]) traceroute2, unans = traceroute([5.6.7.8]) […]
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I suppose it is inevitable that once a marketplace gains a certain amount of traction scammers will follow. I have listed a PSP on my facebook account for a while now and I just had a really exciting offer made. For the mother of a teenager she is in remarkably good shape.
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Found this great little commentary while researching the write() method in REXML: ie_hack: Internet Explorer is the worst piece of crap to have ever been written, with the possible exception of Windows itself. Since IE is unable to parse proper XML, we have to provide a hack to generate XML that IE‘s limited abilities can […]
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ERROR: Your architecture, \’ppc\’, is not supported by the Adobe Flash Player installer.
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Wednesday, April 30, 2008
I use a professional VPN software on my Powerbook called VPN Tracker from equinux. I bought this software because I wanted a streamlined and pushbutton system for dealing with the ISAKMP VPN at work. Normally this software works quite well but because of the aging hardware in my Powerbook I’m suddenly without any access to […]
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after hours of struggling with some code that writes to a mysql database I finally discovered that I was using old and buggy drivers. If you are on ubuntu and find yourself staring at this error it would be a good idea to install libdbd-mysql-ruby sudo apt-get install libdbd-mysql-ruby
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Saturday, February 9, 2008
I’m still fascinated by the academic journal economy. The recent Berkman Buzz had this interesting excerpt by Fellow Danah Boyd “The economy around academic journals is crumbling. Libraries are running out of space to put the physical copies and money to subscribe to journals that are read by few. No academic can afford to buy […]
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Tuesday, January 29, 2008
While doing some research for the SOURCEboston pub crawl I wandered over to the Tommy Doyle web page. Clearly not a page visited often or cared for much by the owners since it has a anti-war page up stating: Security :0 My test: 1 Who is ‘the real murder’ Bush? You or this baby? [ […]
Wednesday, January 2, 2008
Applying this framework, the Article explores ways — some of them bound to be unpopular among advocates of an open Internet represented by uncompromising end-to-end neutrality — in which the Internet can be made to satisfy genuine and pressing security concerns while retaining the most important generative aspects of today’s networked technology. Zittrain, Jonathan, “The […]
Thursday, December 13, 2007
The FSF is conducting a end of year campaign to increase membership. If you read this blog you are likely a person who appreciates the work that FSF does. Show some support and donate ($120 annual) and become a member. You get some rad gear + stickers. check out the video Donate now or Become […]