Trouble

  • what’s up, mac?

    Why don’t any of the host configuration checking tools work on the mac?   CIS, Bastille, ossec (they don’t do conf checking on mac, plus they claim to check CIS compliance on other platforms and don’t), etc.  Just want something simple to run that would check the basics, try to crack a password or two,…

  • Time Traveling with Lou

    In 2009 Joe Viglione wrote A Study of Lou Reed’s Berlin and Rock & Roll Animal Albums; in it he said: Steve Hunter and Dick Wagner were as potent a duo as Keith Richards and Mick Taylor, and the four make-up the “Golden Era” of both The Rolling Stones and Lou Reed, that period when the recordings…

  • Standing outside a broken volunteer with money in my hand

    So I’m walking down the street and get stopped by an effervescent volunteer who claims to come from UNICEF.  Now… come on, who doesn’t like unicef?  All around good people who have done good things for kids for a long time, as far as I can tell.  But they/she was pressing for a $x per month…

  • Bruce, prisons, justice, GhD

    Thanks go out to bruce schneier for pointing out this article in the New Yorker* about the american prison, process, and justice (sic) system.  (Below, by adam gopnik.)  It’s important, and worth reading (has a great opening line as well.) I’ve spoken, written and read before about the appalling situation of this system; the numbers…

  • Die, WP, Die!

    Really?   This little line solves so much.   Sometimes I wonder what devs are thinking, if anything.  Tnx to KG for figuring this one out. <pre>define(‘FS_METHOD’, ‘direct’);</pre> <span style="text-align: left;">   They’re not alone.  Don’t get me started on Centos.