Please note that all blog posts before 8 April 2007 were automatically imported from LiveJournal. To see the comments and any LiveJournal-specific extras such as polls and user icons, please find the source posting at http://brianenigma.livejournal.com/2006/10/After some trial and error, I learned a few things about the OS X xgrid distributed computing technology: 1) xgridctl and … Continue reading Better living through xgrid
Category: Code
Double-U Tea Eff?!?!
Please note that all blog posts before 8 April 2007 were automatically imported from LiveJournal. To see the comments and any LiveJournal-specific extras such as polls and user icons, please find the source posting at http://brianenigma.livejournal.com/2006/09/BUGS By default, Linux follows an optimistic memory allocation strategy. This means that when malloc() returns non-NULL there is no guarantee … Continue reading Double-U Tea Eff?!?!
Library of Google
Please note that all blog posts before 8 April 2007 were automatically imported from LiveJournal. To see the comments and any LiveJournal-specific extras such as polls and user icons, please find the source posting at http://brianenigma.livejournal.com/2006/08/Yesterday, I picked up “Labyrinths,” a book of short stories and essays by Jorge Luis Borges and started reading “The Library … Continue reading Library of Google
If at first you don't succeed at breaking a cipher, you're not Bruce Schneier
Please note that all blog posts before 8 April 2007 were automatically imported from LiveJournal. To see the comments and any LiveJournal-specific extras such as polls and user icons, please find the source posting at http://brianenigma.livejournal.com/2006/08/So awesome: http://geekz.co.uk/schneierfacts/ For the folks reading this that are not crypto dweebs, Bruce Schneier is totally the Chuck Norris of … Continue reading If at first you don't succeed at breaking a cipher, you're not Bruce Schneier
JavaScript Portscanning
Please note that all blog posts before 8 April 2007 were automatically imported from LiveJournal. To see the comments and any LiveJournal-specific extras such as polls and user icons, please find the source posting at http://brianenigma.livejournal.com/2006/07/Interesting.. using JavaScript on an internet website to portscan (and eventually hack) your local area network. There is an overview (with … Continue reading JavaScript Portscanning
:-(
Please note that all blog posts before 8 April 2007 were automatically imported from LiveJournal. To see the comments and any LiveJournal-specific extras such as polls and user icons, please find the source posting at http://brianenigma.livejournal.com/2006/07/Some difference in the way Linux's Bash and OS X's Bash handle variables just caused me to nuke my laptop. #!/bin/sh … Continue reading 🙁
Firefox 2, Electric Boogaloo
Please note that all blog posts before 8 April 2007 were automatically imported from LiveJournal. To see the comments and any LiveJournal-specific extras such as polls and user icons, please find the source posting at http://brianenigma.livejournal.com/2006/07/Okay, so I am slowly trying to migrate myself to Firefox 2.0 on the Mac. I have been using it at … Continue reading Firefox 2, Electric Boogaloo
Digg Top Stories -> RSS
Please note that all blog posts before 8 April 2007 were automatically imported from LiveJournal. To see the comments and any LiveJournal-specific extras such as polls and user icons, please find the source posting at http://brianenigma.livejournal.com/2006/07/A few months ago, Digg released a new version of their site. The release added a bunch of new stuff, but … Continue reading Digg Top Stories -> RSS
Quicksilver
Please note that all blog posts before 8 April 2007 were automatically imported from LiveJournal. To see the comments and any LiveJournal-specific extras such as polls and user icons, please find the source posting at http://brianenigma.livejournal.com/2006/07/So there was a lot of hoopla on Digg earlier today about a new version of Quicksilver for OS X. I … Continue reading Quicksilver
Thank you very little and thank you very much, Apple
Please note that all blog posts before 8 April 2007 were automatically imported from LiveJournal. To see the comments and any LiveJournal-specific extras such as polls and user icons, please find the source posting at http://brianenigma.livejournal.com/2006/07/So it turns out that there is a bug in OS X's udp socket library. Either that, or this is an … Continue reading Thank you very little and thank you very much, Apple