tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37789872024-03-05T12:27:04.044-05:00FooologyFooology: (1) the study of foo; (2) the science dedicated to the understanding of foo; (3) the
study of the series of cannonical metasyntactic
variable names ("foo", "bar", "baz"..).Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16704602827548785969noreply@blogger.comBlogger84125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3778987.post-89911684183604005802013-10-27T10:58:00.001-04:002013-11-10T09:07:23.930-05:00Copies of my stuffGoogle, Facebook, Twitter and others have a lot of content that I'vegenerated. I'm starting to have second thoughts about letting themhost it and sell it (me). Even assuming their privacy policy exactlymatches mine, their security may not always be perfect. They may gethacked (or get a court order that they may or may not tell me about)resulting in my data being used in ways I don't want it toAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16704602827548785969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3778987.post-62160064741012938772013-10-18T06:01:00.002-04:002013-10-19T05:33:21.048-04:00LASER Workshop Tag Cloud
Here is a word cloud of my notes from the
Learning from Authoritative Security Experiment Results (LASER) 2013 workshop
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16704602827548785969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3778987.post-21537337010124323102013-08-02T06:04:00.000-04:002013-08-02T06:11:19.736-04:00Digital War MemorialsI the walked Gettysburg battlefield on the morning of the 150th anniversary of Pickets charge
(which was actually an orderly march across an open field into direct fire).
Big Roundtop, Gettysburg
It seems that 30 or 40 years on, a generation that fought a great battle feels the need
to erect monuments to their heroic efforts, lest succeeding generations forget their deeds.
This IEEE article is Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16704602827548785969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3778987.post-26393006156292392952013-05-28T11:17:00.001-04:002013-05-28T11:19:22.690-04:00Cicadas in NoVa: imagine an entire forrest that sounds like a Star Trek TOS phaser set to overload.Cicadas in NoVa: imagine an entire forrest that sounds like a Star Trek TOS phaser set to overload.
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16704602827548785969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3778987.post-77007256789830810772013-04-27T12:41:00.000-04:002013-04-27T12:41:01.519-04:00
org·i·fy
tr.v. org·i·fied, org·i·fy·ing, org·i·fies
1. To convert something to org-mode; to organize.
[Late Latin orgificre, to make org-like : Latin orgificatus, orgish; see org- in Indo-European roots + Latin -ficre, -fy.]
orgi·fi·cation (-f-kshn) n. orgi·fier n.
Examples
* "The orgificaion of my .emacs file is complete"
* "To orgify, or not to orgify, that Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16704602827548785969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3778987.post-59263582403161126242013-04-06T04:14:00.000-04:002013-04-06T04:14:56.160-04:00"Org-mode in Your Pocket Is a GNU-Shaped Devil" (repost)
Truer words were never spoken. From Michael Hall:
Org-mode in Your Pocket Is a GNU-Shaped Devil
"With Emacs, you don’t just go “la la la … I’m gonna add org mode back and call it a day!” You think to yourself, “I love org mode. I wish there was an easy way to turn an e-mail message into a todo …” and the next thing you know you’re dealing with how to configure GNUS.
Then you Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16704602827548785969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3778987.post-1600954308405290902013-03-23T04:11:00.001-04:002013-03-23T04:11:14.893-04:00Correlation or causation?Edward Tufte: New ET Writings, Artworks & News
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16704602827548785969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3778987.post-36682834754971021122013-03-14T06:23:00.001-04:002013-03-14T06:23:18.856-04:00Time to check out alternative sources for android appsBreaking: Google Has Begun Purging Ad-Blocking Apps From The Play Store
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16704602827548785969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3778987.post-88463458439684032402013-03-03T02:40:00.003-05:002013-03-03T02:40:34.608-05:00Bullet lists dilute thoughtEdward Tufte forum: Lists: design and construction, by Edward Tufte
As a heavy http://orgmode.org user I'm going to have to chew on this one.  It is my subjective experience that org-mode promotes thought.  It allows me to quickly capture, arrange, document and support my thinking (and coding).  In addition it effortlessly promotes transformation of my outlines into a myriad of Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16704602827548785969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3778987.post-67568245497951274532013-02-18T20:18:00.000-05:002013-02-20T07:29:00.279-05:00ShmooCon 2013: Experiences and ReflectionsHere are some thoughts and experiences from ShmooCon 2013.
1 Labs
I spent Thursday morning to Sunday evening working ShmooCon Labs. The
labs are a group of volunteers that stand up the networking
infrastructure for ShmooCon: fiber, switches, routers, DHCP, DNS, IDS,
network monitoring. This is all done in under 36 hours by volunteers
using donated hardware (shout out to Matt Hum and Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16704602827548785969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3778987.post-19544473618484641952013-02-13T04:18:00.000-05:002013-02-13T04:18:33.022-05:00Esse aut non esseIf you love Shakespeare, Latin, or ever had any illusion that it is possible to arrive at "a" "correct" translation from one language to another, read on...
Esse aut esse non, illa quaestio est = To be or not to be, that is the question.Is the Latin correct in the above equation?
http://www.textkit.com/greek-latin-forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=11013Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16704602827548785969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3778987.post-47362733455855768882013-02-11T20:47:00.001-05:002013-02-11T20:47:20.682-05:00"Productivity software"?Vivek Haldar : Productivity isn't
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16704602827548785969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3778987.post-78822470706797687522013-02-11T09:36:00.004-05:002013-02-11T09:36:30.198-05:00Locking Cells in OOCALCHow to lock cells. Because positionally dependent home-brew budget spreadsheets are easy to screw up, and sometimes emacs http://orgmode.org/manual/Tables.html just arn't enough .. Locking cells in oocalcAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16704602827548785969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3778987.post-11558123617566484142013-02-07T18:32:00.000-05:002013-02-07T18:32:18.334-05:00Python Word Cloudshttp://peekaboo-vision.blogspot.com/2012/11/a-wordcloud-in-python.htmlAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16704602827548785969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3778987.post-34291247550556226292013-02-07T05:38:00.001-05:002013-02-07T05:38:50.132-05:00Brave new worldBusinesses Are Now Combatants in a Cyberwar with China and Iran - Michael Schrage - Harvard Business Review
What are "borders"?
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16704602827548785969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3778987.post-70133136443324242232013-01-26T10:05:00.000-05:002013-01-26T10:05:06.310-05:00Security Onion on Virtual BoxReinstalled +Doug Burks's Security Onion Security Onion/ @ home. I find that Virtual Box seems to work better than VMware Player: vmware player is not happy with promiscuous mode, wants you to "chmod a+rw /dev/vm*", and even then I was not seeing traffic on the bridged interface. Also, Virtual Box allows snapshots.
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16704602827548785969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3778987.post-83197368712526294452013-01-26T09:48:00.002-05:002013-01-26T09:48:26.412-05:00Well, looks like I missed all of 2012 posting here.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16704602827548785969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3778987.post-40187523574673492612011-04-01T06:50:00.002-04:002011-04-01T06:57:40.746-04:00manually inspect 60 million packetsDear pcapr users,As you already know, pcapr has become the largest online repository for packet captures, with over 60 million packets online. With 420+ protocols and 2800+ distinct packet captures, pcapr has become a reference platform for those that seek packet traces and want to collaborate on them. We have global service providers, government agencies, Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16704602827548785969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3778987.post-2857961767627036882010-09-16T07:31:00.000-04:002010-09-16T07:31:16.698-04:00pdb – Interactive Debugger - Python Module of the Weekpdb – Interactive Debugger - Python Module of the WeekAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16704602827548785969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3778987.post-78207427376534659272009-11-21T07:47:00.001-05:002009-11-21T07:47:23.147-05:00Turnkey Linux appliancesFor all those times you don't want to do your own split horizon DNS configs....in reference to: Turnkey Linux Virtual Appliance Library | Best of Open Source: Simplified (view on Google Sidewiki)Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16704602827548785969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3778987.post-23560485112886293512009-11-01T06:07:00.001-05:002009-11-01T06:07:44.761-05:00How much does it usually rain ?Cut the weather marketing crap.How much does it usually rain ?in reference to: NCDC: U.S. Normals - Products (view on Google Sidewiki)Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16704602827548785969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3778987.post-36978868743877243722009-11-01T06:01:00.001-05:002009-11-01T06:01:26.181-05:00How much has it actually rained ?Cut through all the weather marketing.How much as it actually rained ?(he says, having camped 3 weekends inOctober in the pouring rain, currently listeningto more rain outside)in reference to: AHPS Precipitation Analysis (view on Google Sidewiki)Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16704602827548785969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3778987.post-3402030006361009792009-10-13T07:43:00.000-04:002009-10-13T07:43:01.536-04:00Google Visualization API Gallery - Google Visualization API - Google CodeGoogle Visualization API Gallery - Google Visualization API - Google CodeAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16704602827548785969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3778987.post-70196375561975726702009-10-06T07:07:00.000-04:002009-10-06T07:07:38.087-04:00Yadis! Backup SoftwareYadis! Backup SoftwareAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16704602827548785969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3778987.post-30435180177654958512009-05-31T08:03:00.002-04:002009-05-31T08:10:54.125-04:00Need to compute sunspot frequencies ? Here's some code for you !#! /usr/bin/python# $Id: sunspots.py,v 1.1 2009/05/31 12:08:08 george Exp george $## Plot sunspot data.## Adapted from## http://linuxgazette.net/115/andreasen.html## this was the original program. Dataset from## http://linuxgazette.net/115/misc/andreasen/sunspots.dat## Nice examples of using the newer plotting libraries can be Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16704602827548785969noreply@blogger.com