Dreaming of Epileptic Sheep

Aug 09

The Mythical Man-Finger

Jul 17

Sysadmin by day, developer by night: Twitter spam really is annoying -

joerussbowman:

Simple solution for you Twitter, heck, give me access to the resources where I can tap into the stream and I’ll build it for you.

- Scan tweets as they come in for url.
- If the tweet has a url in it, dump into a db
- Periodically (every 60 minutes) run a report on the db

Report would:

Pull…

Common Mistakes as Python Web Developer | Armin Ronacher's Thoughts and Writings -

Great security advice for python devs.

Coresec.org – Information Security Blog » Hacking Windows Using Evilgrade

Jul 16

Do What You Love or You Will Destroy Yourself - Adam Conrad's posterous -

An inspiring post on following your bliss. For many people, this isn’t the way to go, but it is nice to read stories of people who ended up better off by doing what they loved.

Users of my iOS Game Teach Me a Lesson MIT Didn’t « Aaron Iba's Blog -

I found that my puzzle solving strategy often is the same as the author’s, so I can relate. I didn’t have quite the “AHA” moment he did, but I did realize that for many problems, a different method was better.

DosMan Drivel: All Those Floppy Disk Formats…

Jul 15

'John The Ripper' Gets A Face-Lift - Dark Reading -

John the Ripper played a big role in my last big project (Project Jamie, which you can find at https://github.com/jcchurch/Project-Jamie ). It’s a great piece of software, and I’m glad to hear about the vast improvements being made to it in recent months.

Video for Kindle « Frisnit Electric Industrial Co. Ltd. -

Alright, so it isn’t really video on your kindle, but it’s a great idea, and a really neat implementation.

ASCII by Jason Scott / Floppy Disks: It’s Too Late -

An inspiring post by Jason Scott, which made me want to redouble my efforts to backup everything I have. Backups are important, and I plan on going through our 3.5in floppy collection to see what may be lurking in the bits waiting to be backed up.