Two weeks ago, we had the Utah Open Source Conference, and I gave a presentation on how to crack passwords when you have physical access to a box. You can find my slides and materials here (3MB tar.gz). As an overview of my presentation, I discussed that if you have physical access to a machine, [...]
Just doing my civic duty, here is a posting by Stuart Jansen to the Salt Lake Linux Users Group mailing list: A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? A: No. [...]
You know, I had this massive post all typed up arguing why HTML email isn’t inherently evil. Seriously, it was approaching 2000 words. Then I realized something- I’m over complicating the issue. Everything I was trying to say in the post, can be summed up in this video, showing off Ubiquity from Mozilla Labs. Basically, [...]
A friend of mine just recently signed up for your land line telephone residential service. Within days, he has already been getting a slew of solicitation phone calls. He hasn’t even had the chance to hand out his number, and already, he’s getting quite the barrage of solicitors. Yet, I have a Google Voice number [...]
Ever since discovering ZSH 3 years ago, I’ve been addicted, but it wasn’t until a good 2 years into using the prompt on a daily basis that I decided to do some radical work with my prompt. I’ve blogged about this before a couple times, making improvements along the way: post 0, post 1, post [...]
I just finished reading 7 Reasons Why I Switched to Google Chrome from Firefox. I found the article a bit on the fanboy side, and I’ll address each of his points here, while also saying my reasons why I’m still holding on to the Firefox browser as my default browser. First, Andrew mentions that Google [...]
