Thanks to the prodding of one jthompsinic I’ve started to learn Ruby.  So far I like it.  It’s so easy, and yet powerful.  Another reason for wanting to learn Ruby is that the Metasploit Framework is built on it.  I really just started this past weekend, so it’ll be awhile before I contribute to anything [...]

You may or may not be aware that email is sent in clear text.  This means that anyone watching your network, or anyone with access to any of the servers between sender and receiver can read emails you send and receive at their leisure.  You don’t need to be any kind of h4×0r.  It’s easy, [...]

Out of the Microwave…
Recently one of my friends, a computer wizard, payed me a visit. As we were talking I mentioned that I had recently installed Windows on my PC, I told him how happy I was with this operating system and showed him the Windows CD. Too my surprise he threw it into my [...]

In case anybody out there is still shopping for a Christmas present for me, here’s a list: http://www.thinkgeek.com/brain/gimme.cgi?wid=81d6c846c

Just released today: http://news.samba.org/announcements/pfif/
Today the Protocol Freedom Information Foundation (PFIF), a non-profit organization created by the Software Freedom Law Center, signed an agreement with Microsoft to receive the protocol documentation needed to fully interoperate with the Microsoft Windows workgroup server products and to make them available to Free Software projects such as Samba.
WOOT!

Just thought I’d let you all know that my plans for global domination are coming along nicely.
I will root the world!
Prepare to be PWNED!
{insert evil laughter here}

I don’t normally talk about this, but I have Fibromyalgia.  Last night was one of those nights when the touch of the blanket covering me in bed was painful, and today is one of those days when the touch of the clothes on my back are painful.  It hurts to move; it hurts to not [...]

It’s official!  Peter Jackson will be producing two new movies based on ‘The Hobbit’.  Catch the details at http://www.thehobbitblog.com/.
2010 is too far away.

It’s on the desk of most of my co-workers. Every time I go to someone’s desk to help them with something it sits there and taunts me. Yesterday it was in my mailbox here at work. Someone gave it as a Christmas present. I saved it and brought it home for [...]

Reading through the Lord of the Rings again I have trouble picturing Elijah Wood as Frodo. He’s much too thin for a hobbit, don’t you think. And while we’re on the subject, Dominic Monaghan and Billy Boyd are way to thin to be Merry and Pippin. Sean Astin as Sam was the [...]