Category: computing
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LinuxFest Northwest 2012 was great fun (plus Apache talk slides)
I really had a great weekend. I liked taking the kids to the Fest on Saturday, and I’m glad that I got them to do some robots. They of course wanted to spend a lot of time in the game room. And I was impressed that they were eager for lunch (salmon)! I got caught…
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Ubuntu 12.04 — apt-get my guile
So first impression on rebooting into an upgrade of Ubuntu 12.04 — busted install. Unity would not start up, I killed lightdm and restarted it, and I immediately notice that firefox has missing png for some of the tab buttons. Presently I’m repeating: $ apt-get autoclean $ dpkg –clear-avail $ apt-get update $ apt-get…
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Will UEFI boot Linux?
I saw this article mentioning signed boot loaders float down the BLUG.org news stream. The highlight pullquote: A system that ships with only OEM and Microsoft keys will not boot a generic copy of Linux. I’m sure someone is already busy working on proper support for this, it will be interesting to learn what it…
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Programming with peoples names is tuff
Falsehoods programmers believe about names. Yeah, the simplest things can be the most difficult.
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Win your election using a MITM attack
Electronic voting has very little to do with computers as we use them today, that is, our web-sites are porous and our networks are fungible, our browsers are petri dishes for crime to grow spores in. So when using conventional networking and typical corporate policies, of course, you just design in the backdoor in plain sight. http://www.truth-out.org/print/4465 A real…
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Eccentricity + Random Chance = Eccendipity?
Cmdln has a recent monolog up that will delight the philospher in you, exploring the notion of serendipty, and his compliment to it–the exploration of those ideas perpendicular to your interests, or even opposite them to find those intersections of wisdom or delight that help us relate to those parties normally “across the isle.”
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Would girl marketed video games bolster women in tech by 2034?
We need to get girls interested in computing by first grade. By fifth grade, it’s game over. Computing has an image crisis.
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NFC description reminds me of RFID, plus environmental consequences?
http://venturebeat.com/2011/06/05/nfc-is-more-than-just-mobile-money/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Venturebeat+%28VentureBeat%29 This is a rah-rah article about NFC, provides a nice introduction to the topic, and explores other possible applications. My thoughts range the map: is technology like this going to impact people who lack smart phones and online payment creds in an unfair way? Will default identity setting on these devices drill into your…
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Linuxfest Northwest 2011 Prize
Here’s the Bruce Schneier doll that Modwest donated to the Linuxfest Northwest world famous raffle. What a great prize! Bruce is decked out Matrix style to defeat all your security-thru-obscurity talk and send you packing back to your world of security theater. I wonder what Modwest will donate next year…I know a Leo LaPorte doll…
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