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…the magic number is now 130
Hmm; Facebook is really, really important in WA. The AP reported that “Wash. to unveil voter registration on Facebook.” On the face of it, sure, why not? Then you see some of the details. Once it’s live, Facebook users can click on the application within the secretary of state’s Facebook page. They’ll need to agree to let…
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philosophizing
I realize this is a bit old now… but I keep coming back to it. For posterity. A wise sage once said: There’s an old saying in Tennessee — I know it’s in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — [pauses] — shame on you. Fool me — [pauses]…
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one line shuttle
A one line gawk script to transfer a file to a waiting netcat… it’s sort of a really crappy one-way netcat that you stuff things into. I actually sort of needed this when on a suxx0r really stripped down busybox linux system that had zero file transfer programs, it was a wasteland… but the…
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DARPA, I’ll miss you when I’m gone
So I’ve been winding down my project at DARPA and thought I’d put down some at least close-to-final thoughts on it. I’ve been asked a number of times about how much people should charge for their work. Three things on this: The government is doing you a favor if you get accepted – you get…
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and the winner is…
I’ve been looking at IPMI lately (an under-the-server-hood set of arcanery) and ran across the ipmicmd tool… I can’t recall another tool with a more obscure set of command flags. Here’s an example: ipmicmd raw 0x3a 0x1c 0x01 0x00 As you’ve probably guessed, that’ll send the command to IMM to switch Bank and then reboot.…