I installed openID on the blog. Now all I need is a test. To find someplace where I can use my own openID & to find someone to comment using openID on my blog I kinda like the spirit & the idea of openID, but I simply dont think its all that widespread yet IContinue reading “OpenID”
Category Archives: Planet
openDemocracy – Wasting energy Russian-style
I was amazed when I read this article.. Most people in Russia can’t regulate the level of their central heating. When the radiators get too hot they just open the windows. What? Serious???? WHAT? Why the hell do we even bother? Russia is known to be notoriously cold, and they .. ?? .. !!!! Whow!Continue reading “openDemocracy – Wasting energy Russian-style”
Funny thing about the SSL hack
is that the hack was tested by acting as a node in the Tor network.. Isnt it ironic? As an experiment, Marlinspike placed his proxy software on a node in the Tor network and intercepted 200 requests for SSL encrypted pages over 20 hours, including 114 Yahoo! credentials, 50 Gmail credentials and 16 credit-card numbers.Continue reading “Funny thing about the SSL hack”
Steal This Film 2.5
Stop! Start downloading it now, you ll thank me later! (and yes, its legal *rolleyes*) I’m watching Steal this film 2.5 The Trial Edition.. and its a very interesting documentary. It makes a lot of good points and really puts some things into perspective. Touches on what I meant in my “Finally!” (UK Government AbandonsContinue reading “Steal This Film 2.5”
Expanding on Foobars “How to write a Linux virus”
Philippe Delodder linked & Planet.grep’d an interesting blog post about linux virusses. Foobar: How to write a Linux virus in 5 easy steps and Followup. The article points out important & interesting issues and problems. Its an interesting read and everyone using linux should read it. Certainly people interested in security and most of all,Continue reading “Expanding on Foobars “How to write a Linux virus””
Perl – Periodic Table of the Operators
Pretty thing! Being a comprehensive and complete enumeration of the Operatic Elements of the Perl 6 Language, assembled and drawn with dedication and diligence by M. Lentczner as a service to both the Community and the Republic. May this simple presentation with various illustrative devices increase Knowledge & Understanding amongst practitioners in the art ofContinue reading “Perl – Periodic Table of the Operators”
How quaint..
About 4/5 of my blocked comment spam was posted to my “Why link emacs to jove?” post. There are some exceptions (5 comments on other 2 posts) , but not really much. There s not much special to that post.. Weird! The post is not too long, it has 2 blockquotes in it and aContinue reading “How quaint..”
Mental note
The Planet grep website seems to put each smiley on a line of its own. I just saw my yesterdays post on there & .. at first I though I had a smiley problem, turns out its just the page. Its ok in the feeds too.. Fun Fact.. I realize I use smilies too often!Continue reading “Mental note”
The Electric Kool-Aid Spam Test
As I said earlier (Lets do the comment jive), I opened my blog for comments without subscription. I also closed down (Captcha’d) the user registrations and .. hoped for the best 🙂 I was afraid I’d be bothered with loads of spam messages or at least Some.. Just like I was before with the fakeContinue reading “The Electric Kool-Aid Spam Test”
planet.grep
I recieved the email today, my planet feed was added to planet.grep (without the “:)” smiley ;))! So hooray for syndication & hello to the planet grep people 🙂
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