…losing a half day of my life… and I’m running out of half days.

 dinosaur, perl, philosophy, security, web  Comments Off on …losing a half day of my life… and I’m running out of half days.
Jul 272012
 

This line did it: $ENV{‘PERL_LWP_SSL_VERIFY_HOSTNAME’} = 0; Net::Nessus::XMLRPC, which calls LWP::UserAgent, didn’t emit any hints why something that had been working for many months suddenly doesn’t when I am forced to port to a new system… same OS, how could it go wrong? Turns out LWP changed the default behavior that had been around forever – now it dies if a cert isn’t kompletely kosher.  Since virtually every Nessus install […]

High Fidelity, part I/II

 music, people  Comments Off on High Fidelity, part I/II
Jul 262012
 
High Fidelity, part I/II

Splitting this into two pieces… someday I’ll say a bit about HiFi technology, but I feel compelled to write about a hifi experience I had recently.  Anyone who goes into audiophilia even a bit probably has some sad or bad stories about worthless tech, pushy salesfolks, hype, etc., etc.  Overall I chalk it up to part of the game.  And it’s been my experience that in general audiophiles are […]

…the magic number is now 130

 government, security, voting  Comments Off on …the magic number is now 130
Jul 182012
 

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 Facebook access their information, which will be used to prefill their name and date […]

philosophizing

 government, philosophy, rememberance  Comments Off on philosophizing
Jul 172012
 
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] — You can’t get fooled again. I really do wonder how he got elected […]

one line shuttle

 code, dinosaur, tech  Comments Off on one line shuttle
Jul 132012
 

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 fools left gawk on the system… so a quick hack to do file transfers: […]

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