Category Archives: Technology
“Reflections: The Cleve Cartmill Affair: One” by Robert Silverberg
One anecdote out of science fiction’s history that almost everyone has heard of is the tale of how Cleve Cartmill, a competent writer of middling abilities, published a story describing the workings of the atomic bomb in a 1944 issue … Continue reading
Press This « WordPress Codex
This function allows quick posting and publishing through the use of a special web browser favourite. You can create a shortcut to allow use of “Press This”; from the new post screen. You then activate the function when browsing by … Continue reading
UNetBootin
UNetbootin allows for the installation of various Linux/BSD distributions to a partition or USB drive, so it’s no different from a standard install, only it doesn’t need a CD. It can create a dual-boot install, or replace the existing OS … Continue reading
Fireworks pictures experiments
This 4th of July, I’m going to try an experiment. I’m going to take my little Canon 800is, load it up with CHDK, mount it on a tripod, point it at the sky, and run the lightning/motion detection script. I … Continue reading
opendns redirecting google lookups?
Hard to tell what they’re doing, but it looks really shady. dig www.google.com @208.67.222.222 ; < > DiG 9.4.2 < > www.google.com @208.67.222.222 ;; global options: printcmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<
Ubuntu Linux Disk Encryption Benchmarks
Introduced in Ubuntu 7.10 was install-time encryption support where using the alternate installer one can fully encrypt their disk in an LVM using dm-crypt. Unfortunately, the Ubiquity installer in Ubuntu 8.04 continues to lack LVM and encryption support, but using … Continue reading
OSSEC
OSSEC is a scalable, multi-platform, open source Host-based Intrusion Detection System (HIDS). It has a powerful correlation and analysis engine, integrating log analysis, file integrity checking, Windows registry monitoring, centralized policy enforcement, rootkit detection, real-time alerting and active response. http://www.ossec.net/main/
Underseas ‘Wind Farms’ could become power source
This is pretty brilliant. An Australia company is testing what could be the undersea equivalent of a wind farm. Their devices would capture wave energy and convert it to electricity. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/05/080501-wave-video-ap.html
Technology transformation, opiate necessity, cognitive surplus
Another thing that everybody except for me probably saw last week. Non-embedded big version here.