As I was poking around the Amazon website to find the name of a certain Venom album I had owned when I was younger, I cam across an amusing forum thread entitled What is the best band of the 80's, in the metal forum. Presumably they would be discussing metal …

Now that people have let me know where that OpenSSL comic came from, I've been looking at xkcd.com more this morning and found one that is utterly priceless and totally reminds me of me. If you have time to kill, I suggest checking the site out but in the …

Has anyone encountered this, or more specifically, know how to fix it?

I'm using gmail to host my linsec.ca mail, and accessing it via POP3 (fetchmail->procmail->mutt). When I send mail out, I send it out via gmail's SMTP server. The problem is that I never see what …

Sitting in the Paris office, working across from Oden with Pascal not five feet away, Thomas in the same room, and Pixel, Thierry, and ColinG in the room next to me. Talk about wierd. Some of these guys I've worked with for 8 years and never met them before yesterday …

I'm off to the airport now. Should be in France tomorrow at 9am their time (1am my time). Praying for a good flight! For the first time in eight years I will be meeting my co-workers face-to-face. Quite exciting stuff!

Industry Canada has posted a study entitled The Impact of Music Downloads and P2P File-Sharing on the Purchase of Music: A Study for Industry Canada, the description of which is:

Industry Canada undertook a music file sharing study during 2006-07 to measure the extent to which music downloads over peer-to-peer …

Well, a friend sent one of those app invites on Facebook today and largely I ignore them but this one was "which bible character are you most like" and she said it was "scary accurate". So I answered the 5-6 questions, stuff like "do you believe in God", "do you …

Sorry for the little bit of downtime... I finally got around to moving the linsec.ca site from home to the hosting provider that has the rest of my sites (except for annvix.*). A few little hiccups but nothing major.

I love this gif. Has to be one of my all-time favourites. Was doing some file cleaning, found it, and figured I'd stick it up here so I never lose it. =)

I read this really eye-opening piece on the death of HD-DVD to Blu-ray, and Microsoft's stakes, involvement, and (typically) underhanded activity regarding it. The piece is called Lessons from the Death of HD-DVD. I didn't pay much attention to the next-gen hi-def "format wars" beyond the tech specs and features …