matt | August 31, 2009
The more one reads, listens, and researches computer security, the more it makes one want to sit on ones front porch and drink beer, because there’s nothing else you can do.
It isn’t helped by the fact that users are completely retarded and do things like stick MRI machines on the intertubes.
matt | August 26, 2009
Eclipse Phase is a roleplaying game about.. well.. whatever you want, set in the transhuman future.
Aside from looking interesting in general, it also licensed under a CC BY NC SA license. More info is here.
Not only does this mean that I can grab bits of the book to legally make and repost a GM screen, [...]
matt | August 26, 2009
Don’t connect control systems to the intertubes!!!
Since we make such systems at work, this was the subject of some lively discussion at work today, especially since we make a unit which connects home via a cellular modem.
This stuff can be really, really scary if not done carefully.
What is even more scary are old, insecure protocols, [...]
matt | August 26, 2009
So, this guy noticed something I noticed some years ago – that MS doesn’t allow the full amount of memory addressable by hardware to be available under Windows. Now, he basically says that he believes that MS is doing it for license reasons. He misses one serious supporting point: they do this with the 64 [...]
matt | August 22, 2009
So, I’m hitting this odd dichotomy, which I don’t understand.
Of course, there’s Arduino, which is a nice little embedded micro which has analog and digital I/O’s. Decent, functional, basically bare metal.
As a minor step up, Freescale is doing these tower systems, which are kind of a step up – beefier CPU, etc.
The thing which [...]
matt | August 20, 2009
I love how I am expected to pay for other peoples’ poor life choices, and consequent lack of (whatever is on the political agenda this week).
matt | August 19, 2009
Just a test. Beeep…
matt | August 19, 2009
I once heard (likely on Floss Weekly) someone say that if you want an application, think about it, wait 24 hours, then go look for it, someone will have written it, and it will be open source.
QBrew
Now all I need is a reloading data application. If I end up having free time to start reloading [...]
matt | August 10, 2009
Student Arrested for Modifying Consoles – This guy didn’t copy any games (at least, the article doesn’t say he did), thus, he didn’t commit any copyright infringement. This can be used for playing pirated games, but it can also be used for playing homebrew games, or running “unauthorized software” (like Linux). In case it is [...]
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