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{ Monthly Archives } August 2011

My Tmux Hardstatus Theme

Recently, I’ve made the switch from GNU Screen to Tmux for my remote terminal multiplexor. I still prefer GNU Screen for serial connections, however (something the Tmux developers don’t seem to think is important). So, when getting it setup, I wanted my hardstatus line to imitate my GNU Screen hardstatus line as closely as possible. [...]

I Am Going To OLF

I will be attending the Ohio Linux Fest this September (in about two weeks) giving a talk on “Password Theory and Breaking Encrypted Filesystems”. The talk covers some theory on what exactly makes a “secure password”, including some mathematics, entropy, random number generators, shadowed passwords, salts, rainbow tables and cryptographic hashes. I end the talk [...]

Pimp My Irssi – Part 2

It’s been over 3 years since I wrote the original article about pimping out Irssi, with various themes, scripts, aliases, etc. Well, I figure it’s probably time for an update. After all, if you know anything about me, you know I’m an IRC junkie with Irssi, and currently having a love affair with Bitlbee. Aliases [...]