May 11th, 2008
Finally got my camera in. (Why am I saying finally? I got it in 5 days and they said it would be 7-9. hmm.)
It’s a Canon PowerShot A570 IS, and I’ve already loaded up CHDK on it. It takes pretty good images, but I’m still trying to figure out all the features. I just figured out manual focus and white balance, so I’m pretty happy.
May 10th, 2008
Now here’s something that happened in the last 15 hours that I still am trying to wrap my mind around…
Max Spevack, because he’s awesome like that, is sponsoring me to go to the Fedora Users and Developers Convention (FUDCon) this June in Boston.
This has made my month so much better. :D Thanks, Max!
I’ll take pictures, I promise. ;)
May 9th, 2008
Next week:
In other words, panicking. Aaah!
May 8th, 2008
What can you do with a second ethernet port? You can bond them together on the same network for load balancing and fault tolerance, and more.
May 8th, 2008
Here’s someone who liked their cats: a man was found dead with 300 cats stuffed in various freezers around his house.
May 8th, 2008
Comcast is rumored to set bandwidth caps for their high-speed Internet customers.
The comments for this article on Slashdot are quite informative in why they would even possibly do that, and why maybe it’s not the most evil thing they’ve done. For example — who even uses 250 GB of bandwidth per month? I sure don’t.
May 8th, 2008
Turns out… at about 18:20 UTC the power went out at my house for a short period of time. The router came back up, but my computers didn’t. I’m at the library and now I can’t do anything.
Remind me to set up the BIOS on both my computers to reboot after power outages.
May 8th, 2008
An amazing hard drive recovery from the Space Shuttle Columbia. When you see the image of the hard drive on that page, you’ll wonder how they ever got the data back.
May 7th, 2008
OK, so we can sign and encrypt emails with PGP.
Why can’t we sign other things — in real life — with PGP? Hell, a PGP signature is a lot more secure than a handwritten signature anyway… your handwritten signature isn’t password protected.
For those of you who don’t know, Wikipedia has a good explanation of PGP:
Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) is a computer program that provides cryptographic privacy and authentication. PGP is often used for signing, encrypting and decrypting e-mails to increase the security of e-mail communications. It was originally created by Philip Zimmermann in 1991.
PGP and other similar products follow the OpenPGP standard (RFC 4880) for encrypting and decrypting data.
Think about it. The ability to (somehow) sign for packages, agree to contracts, in real life… with one of the most secure identity encryption algorithms out there. Why not?
May 7th, 2008
Wanna die now? You’ll have to wait until this machine comes out, which gives you a swift injection of potassium chloride, or you could go find something in your kitchen. Your choice.
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