Technology

• SONY compromised?

  26 Nov 2007 • 1 min read • technology security spam post

  I noticed that one of the throw-away email addresses I registered years ago for sony style product registration and accessories is now receiving spam. Was sony compromised or did they have an insider …

• Postfix Dspam 380 Ubuntu

  25 Nov 2007 • 5 min read • dspam technology ubuntu spam admin postfix post

  I have been wrestling with my dspam configuration on Ubuntu for quite some time and think I finally got it set up the optimal way. It took building a custom modern dspam package myself, with the help …

• New Wider Stylesheet For Juxtaposition

  11 Mar 2007 • 1 min read • css technology admin fluid movable type style post

  I just finally fixed my modified Vixburg style for Movable Type so that it makes use of wider browsers. Many times, quotes or pictures or preformatted text get chopped by the small center column. I …

• New Life For Old Books With Bookmooch

  10 Mar 2007 • 1 min read • technology books post

  BookMooch: a community for exchanging used books (book swap and book exchange and book trade) I am loving Bookmooch. I’ve mailed out several books so far that were sitting in my basement and am …

• Seattle Public Library Catalog Toast

  15 Dec 2006 • 1 min read • technology post

  Ouch. Clever page title though: “There goes our five nines…”

• Nist Blasts Paperless Electronic Voting

  2 Dec 2006 • 1 min read • technology security politics Civil Liberties post

  The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recently published a paper condemning paperless electronic voting machines as insecurable. I’ll have to read the paper in-depth to see …

• Dangerous Plastic Packaging

  2 Dec 2006 • 1 min read • Rants technology post

  I’ve been wondering this and noting that more and more products are coming wrapped in this stuff. I use a tchochke that I got from Tripwire that has a tiny corner of a razor blade on it to open …

• Installing An Uncrippled Ffmpeg On Ubuntu

  26 Nov 2006 • 1 min read • technology post

  I’m trying this right now on Edgy Eft: po-ru.com: Fixing ffmpeg on Ubuntu It seems one can set DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=risky to enable the missing codecs rather than editing debian/rules and building …

• Fashion Advice For Geeks

  24 Nov 2006 • 4 min read • technology NoneOfTheAbove post

  So, there happen to be these unwritten rules of style that change all the time that nobody seems to tell you about and it’s hard to ask and for many, harder to know you should ask. And there are …

• Competitive Information For Picking An Antivirus Solution

  24 Nov 2006 • 2 min read • technology security post

  This is an article from a year ago that showed how each vendor was able to respond to key virus outbreaks. They also show the data from the previous year. I personally recommend F-Secure’s …