For those of you interested in the status of the main website, the Projects page now exists. There is one project that I am working on, but since it is still not ready, its purpose will have to remain secret, for the time being. Let's just say it involves screen-scraping and RSS.
I apologize for going such a long interval without posting. This week was rather busy.
In my defense, I was planning on posting two or three entries yesterday, but was thwarted by a network outage. The worst part was the length (more than twelve hours). The second worst part was the outage the day before. Since [...]
If you are even mildy interested in computer security, then you have surely heard of the arrests of two young men in Germany suspected of releasing the Netsky/Sasser (I think F-Secure's analysis of similar coding structure in the two programs is enough to suggest that Sasser is a more advanced version of Netsky, rather than [...]
From Slashdot comes an article from MacWorld UK about a malicious Macintosh program disguised as the not-yet-released Mac Word 2004. From the article:
A Macworld reader alerted the magazine to the malware after he downloaded the file from Limewire. The reader told Macworld: "I downloaded the file in the hope that perhaps Microsoft had released some [...]
From Scoble comes screenshots from Longhorn showing some cool features, including integration with hardware-based auxillary displays, similar to those that have appeared on cell phones in recent years, and improved support for contacts, including the potential to have a "communications history."
Not "Gandhi 2: No More Mr. Passive Resistance, nor a movie with an actor who was better when he played Gandhi, but Sonia Gandhi, almost the new prime minister of India.
For the last year or so, most of the news coming out of India that has not dealt with outsourcing has focused on the growing [...]
I dual-boot. My 60 gigabyte hard drive is split into five partitions:
a NTFS partition, for Windows XP
an ext3 partition for Gentoo Linux
a swap partition to improve performance in Linux
two FAT32 partitions for sharing documents and multimedia between the two operating systems
As the above list shows, the structure of my hard drive would be a lot [...]
Interesting article on military.com (courtesy of Engadget) about a possible replacement for the M-16 series of rifles. Made by Heckler & Koch, the modular design of the XM-8 (interchangeable barrels!) makes a perfect weapon for any modernized army. And it just plain looks futuristic, like something out of Starship Troopers. Alas, the guns in that [...]
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From Quinnfreddie@aol.com Wed May 19 19:29:41 2004
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From: Quinnfreddie@aol.com
Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 19:29:28 EDT
Subject: AMERICA Coming Home, Proofs gathered!
To: dodoo@fas.harvard.edu [...]
…this would be the way to my heart. Courtesy of Gizmodo.
One would think that since exams are over for me, I would be posting more. Since I have not, you might be wondering how have I been occupying myself, in these waning days of the school year?
listening to Franz Ferdinand, especially the songs "Dark of the Matinee" and "Auf Acshe"
reading various blogs (the list of [...]
?Work is aggravating me,? she wrote in an April 28 entry on the publicly accessible journal, the contents of which have since been taken offline. ?I am one shade lighter than homicidal today. I am two snotty e-mails from professors away from bombing the entire Harvard campus.?
It's probably not a good idea to make threats [...]