Cnet has a very interesting story about being able to reboot a computer, extract the memory and then find the encryption key for apples file vault.
Archive for February, 2008
Hacking memory after a reboot
Thursday, February 21st, 2008Very interesting read about PBS and HD
Monday, February 11th, 2008I added an amplifier to my house antenna, which means I now get all the Baltimore digital channels, but one of the things that has been frustrating me is why I don’t get the same programs on the WETA-HD as I do on on WETA’s analogue channel. I now have a better idea after reading this article. Which explain that the master PBS feed has a lot to do with it. Personally I would love it if WETA would flip there HD main channel or even a sub channel to match their analogue, that way I don’t have to suffer a crappy analogue channel. One of the reasons I put in the amplifier was to get MPT which matches its analogue channel to its HD channel by upscaling the signal to HD. Oh well, even if it is not HD the quality of upscaled is better than analogue so it is the lesser of the evils.
Xkcd
Monday, February 11th, 2008I only recently started reading xkcd, I discovered last week that the cartoons have an alt tag that continues the story or adds more context to it.
Check out today
then leave the mouse over the cartoon, you should see the extra text. (doesn’t work in IE, but does work in firefox and safari)
Missing servers in DC
Friday, February 8th, 2008I heard on the radio this morning that two servers were found by the trash and was kind of shocked. My first reaction is how can anyone miss to servers, if they contain current information then they are probably in use so someone would notice them going offline. Then I read the Washington Post Article. According to the DC Tax office the machines haven’t been used for 5 years, which makes me feel a little better, but it will be interesting to see what is currently on the servers, my guess is that they were sold off as surplus and have been used somewhere else for the last 5 years until the current owners decided they weren’t worth the power to keep them running and junked them. What I am really hoping is that the machines were truly wiped before being retired by the DC tax office. I know that very few companies have a good asset retirement policies.
This is kind of nuts
Tuesday, February 5th, 2008I wasn’t really watching the superbowl, but i saw this ad and did wonder how they did it.
http://www.fordvehicles.com/f150behindthescenes/
Kind of amazing the lengths they will go to make a 30 second spot.
Oh, and no this didn’t make me want to go out and buy one.
Skiing in Killington
Saturday, February 2nd, 2008I have been looking for a good way to share my GPS data from our last skiing trip. It turns out that Garmin has a website called motionbased.com that goes a good job. I had to gzip the Garmin Trainer export file before it would upload.
I tried a couple things with the GPS, on Saturday I would hit start at the top then stop at the bottom, on Sunday and Monday I would just hit lap at the top and the bottom. Hit lap means that you see the lifts as well as the skiing, interesting for checking with chairlifts are the fastest.
Saturday
http://trail.motionbased.com/trail/activity/4893479
Sunday
http://trail.motionbased.com/trail/activity/4893480
Monday
Exercise
Saturday, February 2nd, 2008After a couple months of trying to swim twice a week, cycling to work (well on days when it isn’t snowing or raining) and 3 days of skiing I have managed to loose 10 pounds, not the money kind but the weight kind.
Anyone interested in seeing he U2 3D
Friday, February 1st, 2008I thinking about trying to get tickets for the U2 3D movie at the Smithsonian on saturday. Call me if you are interested.
Real Programmers…..
Friday, February 1st, 2008
I have grown to tolerate vi since it became a pain to install my favorite editor jove and ue stopped compiling on anything recent.