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Monthly Archives: September 2007
qotd
Posted by on September 29, 2007
Quote of the day: “It is better to be wrong than to be vague.” — Freeman Dyson
let’s go north!
Posted by on September 15, 2007
Northwest Passage now open. On the plus side, you can now travel by sea between Europe and Asia. I sense tourism opportunities. Who said climate change was all bad?
apple tv & itunes tip: updating movie and tv show metadata
Posted by on September 11, 2007
I’ve mentioned before that I don’t have cable anymore — just AppleTV — and as a result I’ve also organized my digital library much better to have access to it in remote mode (through the iTunes on the MacPro). One of the problems of iTunes video importing is the information on the files. iTunes uses [...]
no passwords
Posted by on September 11, 2007
Simple Authentication for the Web (PDF), a small paper that describes an interesting concept: passwordless-logins.
rainbow hash
Posted by on September 11, 2007
Rainbow Hash Cracking. Your passwords are safe on Windows… not!
openid
Posted by on September 9, 2007
The problem(s) with OpenID. I can’t add much to it, other than this: I agree.
code beauty
Posted by on September 8, 2007
Interesting argument on Beautiful Code — if perhaps a bit too pessimistic.
ruby on os x: some useful links
Posted by on September 7, 2007
So I’ve been using whatever free time I have to play a bit more with Ruby and Rails. Here’s some links that I’ve found useful for OS X: Fink. Not Ruby-related, but definitely one of the first things I install in a new Mac. Another thing you probably want to install is MySQL (I have [...]
if ipods could talk…
Posted by on September 6, 2007
I’ve obviously gone off the deep end. We await anxiously until my brain decides to resume duties…
APL is write only
Posted by on September 6, 2007
Conway’s Game of Life in one line of APL. This is why APL is often called a “write-only language.”
