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Get a Hobby
My cousin's mail server log was full of failed root logins from some guy at Gonzaga running a dictionary attack. Root login was off, so he could guess all he liked. Then I tried logging into his machine with a message of my own.
My Fifteen Minutes
Avoiding the website for my latest project, I went Googling my old free banner-ad program, BannerFusion, from 1999. Forums, reviews, and one guy's resume claiming he worked on its development. I had my fifteen minutes and didn't even know it.
Stealing Water and Netmasks
A neighbor watering his lawn with a hose plugged into the unsold house next door, plus a walk through the math of whether an IP address falls within a subnet using (r & m) = (t & m). Now you know. Or, in most cases, you don't, but you've read it.
It is Done
At 03:18 this morning I finally got Knuth's multiple-precision arithmetic working: addition, subtraction, multiplication, and the dreaded division. The test loop verifies a = ((a / b) * b) + (a % b). Now for exponents and primes. Time for a shower.
Run, Run as Fast as You Can
A July 4 race I never run, except my Two Fat Friends are running it, so I must beat them or spend my life living down the loss. For context, the Marine PFT wants 3 miles in 18 minutes. That's 10mph. Do you know how insane that is?
Remote Kernel Debugging
I finally got remote kernel debugging working, sort of. Set a breakpoint and it SIGTRAPs for no reason I can find, with gdb pointing at an errant line that is a comment. Skip the breakpoint and it runs fine, but my bug causes no panic. Aye yi yi.
Smart Sorting in OS X
Take a look at this Finder window: the book's chapters aren't sorted alphabetically. Kind of weird. I expect most of you just let out an unattractive "huuuuuh?" with a furrowed brow. I wouldn't expect you to understand.
Claris the Dog Cow
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Bring out the Gimp
The GIMP is a free Photoshop alternative, according to people who have never actually used Photoshop. For its tenth anniversary they ran a splash screen contest called Gimp Splash 10, and the Slashdot comments wrote themselves.