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My cousin called me up with problems connecting to the mail server. While checking out the server log, I saw lots and lots of lines which read: Failed password for root from 147.222.163.3 port 58827 ssh2 Some bastard in Spokane, WA (Gonzaga University) was running (most likely)

I largely finished up my latest programming endeavor [glowworm.us] the other day, and I started working on the web site - my least favorite thing to do. To assist in avoiding that task, I decided to do something else. First, some background. Back in 1999, I had a relatively

I was going for a jog a few weeks ago, late at night, and I noticed that one of my neighbors was watering his lawn - but the hose was plugged into the as-of-yet-unsold house next door. Seriously cheap. I thought it would be fun to get ahold of some

When I'm working, desperately, to finish a programming project, personal hygene always takes the second seat ... or fifth or sixth. So does eating for that matter, but that's another story. After much agonizing, I finally got Knuth's algorithms on multiple precision arithmetic for addition,

I finally got remote kernel debugging working ... sort of. If I attempt to set a breakpoint and then tell the kernel to continue, it SIGTRAPs for a reason I can't ascertain ... because gdb is convinced that the source code I've given it is newer than the

I don't know what else to call it. Take a look at the picture (it's a Finder window). The sorting of the chapters of that book is not alphabetical. Kind of weird. Yes, I expect most of you just let out some entirely unattractive "huuuuuh?

I finished revamping the bitmap-to-line-segments algorithm to deal with "branching" ... where a horizontal line has multiple "columns" descending below it. A little bit of state-saving and recursion made it all work magically. The algorithm needs a couple tweaks though; nothing major. Next, instead of simply depicting