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This isn’t a substantial post, but nevertheless I found this quote extremely intruiging:
“Rampant piracy is just unserved customers” – Jason Holtman, Director of Business Development, Valve Software

For this upcoming quarter our instructor has slated a colleague and I to develop a web application in PHP using a MSSQL database, seperate from the standard student projects. In preparation for this, I decided to set up a development box so we could get started early. It was completely unnecessary for us to get [...]

I accumulate interesting links from time to time. This will be an ongoing theme. Today’s links:
PHP and Rails: variable differences
Common Mistakes in Software Development
How to Stay Awake at Work
Analyzing Malicious SSH Login Attempts
68 Linux Related Free E-Books

“If programmers deserve to be rewarded for creating innovative programs, by the same token they deserve to be punished if they restrict the use of these programs.”
-Richard M. Stallman

Well this will make you feel good if you’ve checked into a Best Western since 2007.
I can has credit cards?

This is an interesting and scary bit of news today. Ok it’s not really that scary to me, since I don’t care who I’m following or having follow me on Twitter, but it might be scary to someone.
A CSRF vulnerabilty allows someone to force following: Click Here.

So for the past several days, off and on, I’ve been trying to get packet injection working with my Linksys Wireless PCI card, so that I could use it with airodump/aireplay (for aircrack to use). The box is running Ubuntu 8, and the default driver didn’t seem to cooperate much with injection (or so I [...]

I just finished watching a documentary on the Kevin Mitnick story called “Freedom Downtime” which I would encourage anyone interested in information freedom to watch. The documentary was created by Emmanuel Goldstein and the folks at 2600, and while it may not be a big budget documentary with fancy flair, it serves it’s intended purpose [...]