Let the fun begin. For the second time in as many days, some OS X malware has been discovered. Is this just a couple drops in the can, or is it only the beginning? Time will tell, but as OS X gets more and more popular, one can only reason that the frequency will increase. Linux/nix viruses/maleware probably never caught on too well because there was a certain “geek factor” associated with those operating systems. But the users of OS X are probably a ripe target for such abuse. ...
This one is for my father, and all you other firearm-wielding folk out there. :) Ken Lunde’s Pistol Wallpaper Pages My current favorite is the Sig-Sauer P226ST, although the Glocks are quite nice…and the .357 S&W short barrel looks mildly familiar. ;) Too bad he doesn’t have any Rugers in there.
Winter. Perfect days to withdraw from the cold outside. Cold and gray, a time to retreat into the comfort of one one’s couch and close the shades. A time of the year to concoct reason upon reason to preclude oneself from braving the elements. Now, take a job where you work from home a significant portion of the time, throw in a fairly significant workload, and you’ve got a perfect recipe for some cabin fever. ...
Ameriquest has some pretty good commercials. I just saw one called Next time, use a fly swatter. Enjoy. :)
I’ve oft gotten stuck in a screen terminal by hitting Ctrl+s instead of Ctrl+a. And then I would never know how to get out of it, and I’d have to re-login to get my screen back. It didn’t happen too often, but often enough the past month or so to drive me to figure out why it does this. A quick google led me this page on what to do if you get stuck in a Unix login session. Turns out that Ctrl+s “tells the system not to send any more data to the screen until a CTRL-Q is pressed”. ...
Google Desktop, now with the ability search across remote computers. I have one word. Scary. Dear Google, Did you do your due diligence when programing this “sweet new feature”? Did you have an independent third party come in and do a security analysis of this feature, from both a black box perspective as well as a source code analysis? Have you really thought this through, because damn…I see a lot of potential for abuse here. ...
OK, UPS. What the heck?! For the past two days I have been expecting a package, which was sent “Next Day Delivery” so it’s apparently pretty urgent that I get it. Day 1 was frustrating enough when I learned that UPS had attempted delivery at 10am in the morning. This was prior to when a doorman was present downstairs, but I was definitely home. The UPS driver did not apparently to ring my doorbell, nor did he attempt to call the number on the package. Fine, frustrating enough…but hopefully he’ll be more responsible the next day because as their customer rep said, “UPS has no ability to contact their drivers to make another attempt”. ...
It’s kind of weird (and I’ll probably get laughed at)…but every now and then I feel like Neo out of the Matrix. It usually happens late at night after I’ve been coding and hacking away and learning new stuff. The sun is long gone, the mountain dew cans line the side of the desk and various consoles scroll output from sql injection hacks and binary compiles. It always reminds me of the one scene where Neo is passed out in front of his computer and is awakened by Trinity hacking into his computer. ...
Some Sunday night fun - Spell with flickr
I’ve been traveling a lot the past month. As in I’ve been home about less than a week. Partly for work, partly for fun, but stressful on the ‘ol system, that’s for sure. Every once in a while, though…something makes it worthwhile. Like this beautiful sunrise on South Miami Beach in January. I had fallen asleep after a late night of coding the night before and woke up early enough to catch this beautiful view.