August 12, 2009 – 12:54 am
If you’re googling for this, you already know the problems, but just as a refresher:
it’s a java applet.
The java applet asks for permission to write to your filesystem, then asks for your root password, then dumps a setuid program in your ~/.juniper_networks directory. (Side note: I usually mount my home directory nosuid,nodev. Guess [...]
October 7, 2008 – 3:11 pm
I don’t seem to have time to write my own thoughts here, so we’ll use everybody’s favorite substitute, someone else’s thoughts:
Grab the nearest book.
Open the book to page 56.
Find the fifth sentence.
Post the text of the next few sentences in your journal.
Don’t dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick [...]
September 25, 2008 – 6:14 pm
I’m officially a customer of a failed bank.
Whoo hoo
Most of my 3 readers have already seen this, I’m sure (and if not I’ll be by shortly to show you in person), but you should watch the first two episodes of Dr. Horrible right now, before the final episode comes out tomorrow (and then it promptly disappears Sunday).
You have been warned.
OS/X 10.5.3 has google contacts sync, but 1) only if you’ve connected to an ipod touch or iphone, and 2) only when you sync an ipod. Lifehacker has a workaround.
Second, for whatever reason, this update causes erlang R12B2 to bus error at startup if you’ve enabled Hipe. Bummer. Workaround (courtesy of Geoff [...]
If you just got a bizarre note from gtalk telling you that I de-authorized you — sorry about that. I was tinkering with Spanning Sync and accidentally deleted all my gmail contacts. I’ll be happy to re-add you if you send an invite.
On Friday, I read this book review of Michael Freeman’s The Photographer’s Eye.
On Saturday, I made a note of the book title and author to try to pick up over the weekend.
On Sunday, I checked in-store availability at the Borders at Michigan and Chicago Aves. In-stock.
On Monday, I checked again. Out of stock. [...]
February 1, 2008 – 9:36 am
Another generation of FreeBSD users scarred….
January 21, 2008 – 5:58 pm
I was given some love, some education, and some hope.
+1
November 26, 2007 – 8:56 am
A great detailed analysis of how the financial markets got so screwed up:
An LSS, by contrast, made much the same trade, but didn’t have any prime brokers breathing down its neck. That’s because it borrowed the money to create its leverage by issuing asset-backed commercial paper, or ABCP. Investors would lend money at very short [...]