Ahhh... life in the wild frontier of the internet with it's pervasive exploits, backdoors, rootkits, and other goodies. It was quite a surprise this morning when I was reading through my daily logging reports and found that I had a process spring up since yesterday's report telling me that a …

Haven't posted in this section for a bit... but I have to admit that ever since I gave World of Warcaft a go, I haven't missed EverQuest or EverQuest2 at all. WoW gives me all the MMoRPG junkiness I need and although I don't have time to play it as …

Ahhh... it's cold out but I'm outside with my new couple-day old Toshiba Libretto U100.. typing is slow and I feel like my fingers are very fat, but I'm happy and satisfied. After a couple days of struggling, I've got this little beast configured almost the way I want it …

Oh my God... I just read the scariest thing on slashdot about the sale of 1000 iBooks for $50 each and the resulting riot.

http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/08/16/197222

This is the sickest thing I think I've read in a long time. People actually …

Has anyone else had issues with Tiger's Mail.app? I preferred the version that came with Panther! After using it for a while, and doing a fresh install about two days ago (granted, I copied all of the old files, but still... the whole system feels spunkier so one would …

I find LDAP for authentication highly irritating. It's better than some alternatives, like NIS (haven't looked at NIS+ so I don't know how it measures up), but man oh man, it's a real nuisance sometimes.

I wrote that LDAP Authentication piece when there was essentially nothing else and it took …

Just finished the first draft of my Using Kerberos 5 for Single Sign-On Authentication paper. Needs to be re-read and proofed and definitely needs some adding (i.e. adding Windows XP and Mac OS X clients, integrating with OpenLDAP, etc.). but for a starter, it's pretty good (I needed it …

I think everyone has a set of applications that are absolutely essential to them. I'd like to list a few of the essentials and favourite apps that I use for OS X (I'll do another list later for Linux). There are a lot of great applications out there... some open …

Yesterday started some of the most laughable speculation regarding Mandriva's future that I've read in a long time. It made for quite a good chuckle at first. To recap, an interview on LinuxPlanet with Ian Murdock was published yesterday indicating, among other silly rhetoric, that "Not only can they …

This may be of interest to some people, but it's more of interest to me. Below are links to my current EQ2 characters. Yes, most of them are pretty sucky right now, but I'm working on it (it's not like I have tonnes of spare time!). Right now my main …