So I hadn’t given my Wii much love lately, so I turned it on last night to try out the recent Prince of Persia port for a bit. I played for a bit and I turned it off.
Interestingly enough, the normal “off” with the Wii, is actually more like “standby” and is live on the [...]
Category Archives: Technology
Wii firmware upgrade and Apple Airport Extreme - unhappy together
September 9, 2008 – 12:53 am
The vacation laptop: ASUS EEE PC 901
August 31, 2008 – 3:09 pm
So I went and picked up a 0day piece of hardware. The ASUS EEE PC 901.
Since it’s so new, it’s not very well supported. Even the new chipset ethernet drivers (as of the beginning of August ‘08) are not yet in the linux kernel, so a simple install is problematic.
If I wanted to hack something [...]
Downtown for Linux
July 23, 2008 – 3:05 pm
I had the pleasure of attending one of the GSLUG [Greater Seattle Linux Users Group] on the 12th.
I was really surprised at the quality of the event. Allow me to explain.
I’m used to these type of occasions being hosted in a filthy classroom or basement of a university or community college and attended by unwashed [...]
Amazon downtime
June 10, 2008 – 1:11 pm
There was recent news about how Amazon was down for two hours. Speculation runs rampant on cnet about the cause:
“It doesn’t seem to be the result of a network-initiated attack, at least from my preliminary analysis from our probes,” Ranjan said.
Human error may not sound as gripping a tale as a network attack, but there’s [...]
iphone meets net neutrality
March 21, 2008 – 5:44 pm
Chris Soghoian made an interesting point in his recent cnet article entitled iPhone rules pose Net neutrality, antitrust concerns. My key point of interest here is the following:
Apple’s, and to a degree AT&T, inclination to lock in customers is counter to the current direction of the market. Verizon is opening their cellular network and allowing [...]
PGP key replacement time
January 20, 2008 – 12:24 am
I have a new pgp key.
Feel free to sign it at your pgp.net keyserver of choice.
$ gpg –fingerprint FE264BAA
pub 16384R/FE264BAA 2008-01-17 Key fingerprint = 9A05 99DB 838D 9049 0509 AD5D 26A4 2F8A FE26 4BAAsub 16384R/3CA219BB 2008-01-17
Why so big a keysize? A friend of mine cited the following:
NIST key management guidelines further suggest that 15360-bit RSA [...]
Unbricking/hacking the iPhone
December 23, 2007 – 4:48 am
I was asked for help with someones iphone recently. It is amazing how many guides are out there and nearly all of them have a very specific instructions of what to do. If you don’t fit into their ideal situation, then you need to figure it out yourself.
Because I’ve spent a lot of time figuring [...]
Software liability
December 22, 2007 – 8:17 am
Another perennial topic that seems to come up whenever I am speaking to someone who is a consumer of technology. If they are one of the people that I actually bore with some of the details about what I do, it isn’t uncommon for me to talk about their individual concerns about internet security and [...]
Symantec and commercial spyware
December 21, 2007 – 5:39 pm
I have no sympathy for the consumers of Solid Oak as discussed, if that is the right word, in the well circulated Chloe Albanesius article dramatically entitled “Update: Symantec Screwup Is ‘Worse Than Any Virus.‘”
Yes. Let’s be as sensational as possible far beyond the point of legitimacy. Good plan, Chloe. I’m sure your frothing editors [...]
Facebook and privacy revisited
November 18, 2007 – 4:01 am
Like I have talked about before with Google and as Laurance Lessig discussed in his talk at the University of Washington, public companies are established with one goal. … Some of his talk entitled “Is Google (2008) Microsoft (1998)” is available here:
