Wednesday, March 29, 2000

Tuesday, March 28, 2000

Some may find it hard to believe, but there are still people who refuse to see the light of C++, and insist on programming in that backward langauge, C.
Shave your own head with this.

Monday, March 27, 2000

2100 reviews of programming books at ACCU - Reviews Index Page
"In fact, UNIX was originally the _only_ reason C was developed. However, C turned out to be a very powerful language that can be used for all purposes." -- C and the operating system UNIX
The Programmer Of The Month (POTM) Page
May 19-21 2000, Palo Alto $500: Spring 2000 Senior Associates Gathering marvin minsky - Society of Mind eric raymond - Cathedral and the Bazaar bill joy - cofounder of Sun tim o'reilly - those animal print books hemos - slashdot ...others

Saturday, March 25, 2000

I am the Master of Time!!!
Do not heed the stranger with the Antlers of the Damned
Toss a frog in a blender or a gerbil in a microwave here, if you haven't already.
Mozilla dot Party (celebrating 2nd anniversary) at the Sound Factory, 525 harrison at 1st, san francisco
Search for patents by keyword or number here. An interesting example is the National Security Agency's word forest search patent.

Wednesday, March 22, 2000

NY mayor, Giuliani, who is incidentally running against Hilary Clinton for Senate, denounced a work of art that criticied his, Jesse Helms', Pat Buchannan's, and Pat Robertson's stance against artistic self-expression.
Use OptOut to detect and remove "Spy Ware" from your computer.
Vermont citizen is silenced for political criticism, a constitutionally protected form of free speech.

Tuesday, March 14, 2000

Serge this seems so mainstream for you to participate. -Sean
Legalized torture in Israel is becoming a real possibility.
Is this the solution to the dynamic contect cahing problem?
Don't play the part of the offended sausage
So much to blog so little time...
The Internet Junkbuster will block ads and/or cookies. One of the nices features is that you can import large block lists that others have created (and there's no shortage of them on the internet). You can also use Junkbuster to create wafers (forged cookies).
If you're stuck with Winblows and don't have dynamic cookie filtering software yet, check out Cookie Pal from Kookaburra Software
Former CIA Director admits that US conducts industrial espionage.

Saturday, March 11, 2000

Meta surveillance at Spook
Rated "Most Highbrow Site" on the Internet by Brill's Best of the Web, Arts & Letters Daily is worth taking a look at at least to determine for yourself whether this is true, and whether its the kind of site you want to look at anyway...
Have The Counter count hits to your site and do some rudimentary statistics for you, free.

Friday, March 10, 2000

You can ask your friendly hackers on this site to scan any site you care to name for you... and they'll do it while you wait! To experience this in the comfort of your own home check out the The Infinity Project
A perl module to craft custom ethernet packets. Nice! I've created a bare-bones Arrowpoint load-balancer keep-alive simulator for testing some proprietary software using it. Very very useful... You can find it here: Net::RawIP Home Page
How much can any web server that you visit find out about you without much trouble? Look here to do an automatic test.
How about a database of "all publicly known vulnerabilities and security exposures"?
Yesterday I founded a Yahoo club for the discussion of Samhain.
The Samhain filesystem integrity monitoring tool http://samhain.netpedia.net/ is a vast improvement over tripwire and the like. It offers a steganographic option to hide your datafiles and log files, making its presence hard to detect and meaningfully modify. It can also report to a central log server to avoid leaving obvious traces through syslog, or cleartext email.