Category: Geek Stuff

Is this deja vu all over again? Didn’t we see a spam article here yesterday? Well, the weather is still too crappy for me to have any good horseplay stories (and besides, Arthur probably would have been out of commission with a slight limp that seems to be responding well to bute). So I flipped… Continue reading Yet more on spam

A recent Wiredarticle cites a Washington Post article that says President Bush has ordered the government to draw up guidelines for electronic attacks against enemy computer networks. Aside from the possible ethical issues the Post raises (okay, maybe that’s two questions), how are we going to make the enemy use Microsoft so they’re vulnerable?

In a recent blogging, I supported the idea of legislation creating a “do-not-spam” list, similar do the “do-not-call” list that many states require telemarketers to obey. Now a recent Wired article says two states are considering that idea.

A CNN report provides some information about a worm which affected Internet traffic Saturday morning, and for the geeks, McAfee provides a technical report. Although I avoid Microsoft software like the plague that it is, some of my computers at work (including a couple providing back-end hosting for many of the images displayed on this… Continue reading Another Internet Worm, thanks to Microsoft

The geek news channels have recently been full of articles about the recent MIT spam conference. The existence of such a conference is a pretty good indication of how serious the problem is. But I think the geeks are looking for a solution in the wrong place.

Resistance is futile. I’m slowly being assimilated. I’ve allowed the blog to creep onto the front page of this site. The previous front page was little more than a picture of me and some miscellaneous links to other pages within the site. Since those links (and more) are now in the blog’s links section, and… Continue reading Blog or Borg?

Some of you, as you waited (im)patiently for some of these pages to load, may have been silently (or loudly) cursing me for abandoning the speed and simplicity of Blosxom for this bloated, sluggish monstrosity so overloaded with useless features that it takes eons to load a single page. In fairness to the Geeklog software… Continue reading I feel the need for speed

One of the interesting things about running a website is browsing the referrer strings in the access logs to see what brings people to the site. Some of my visitors come from other sites that link to this one, but the vast majority are referred by a search engine, and the referrer string usually contains… Continue reading A Measure of Popularity

The term “debugging” dates back to 1945 and the days of Grace Hopper, when a computer malfunction was traced to a moth in a relay. A friend sent me an interesting item about a more recent hardware infiltration problem:. I think I’m glad Admiral Hopper didn’t run into this one; desnaking just doesn’t sound right.

You might notice that things look a little different here. I made the switch to the Geeklog software. I still have lots of minor tweaking to do, but I think everything is basically functional now.