dinosaur, perl, philosophy, security, web

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

July 27, 2012

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...

music, people

High Fidelity, part I/II

July 26, 2012

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...

government, security, voting

…the magic number is now 130

July 18, 2012

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...

government, philosophy, rememberance

philosophizing

July 17, 2012

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...

code, dinosaur, tech

one line shuttle

July 13, 2012

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...