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This reminds me of a Grigori Perelman quote (the guy who turned down the Fields Medal and the Millennium Prize on principal): "There are many mathematicians who are more or less ho…

This is why I stopped releasing source code. Idiots who want 15 mins of fame and constant attention but cannot create, so they consume what others create. You own the copyright. Th…

Run your OpenSSH server on port 80 or 443.

Be sure to push your DNS through the OpenSSH tunnel too, or they'll see your client's DNS requests. Here is a very short write-up on safe web browsing while on untrusted networks: …

Full disk encryption. No worries mate.

There are tools written to do just that... timestomp is great.

Forensic guys want to take images of the storage devices. They use tools such as dcfldd or purpose-built devices (Tableu) to do this. They'll then analyze the images and probably n…

Most who are fairly paid, valued and treated as human beings won't "walk out". If they like the area and have friends and family close by and they are respected by the company, the…

These scanners are pretty much worthless. They are written by script kiddies for accountants who pretend they know something about IT when most of them have never administered a sy…

Does anyone worry about the built-in Law Enforcement Access systems that the cloud services have? Bruce Schneier wrote an essay ( http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/01/23/schneier.goo…

Give it 20 years and we'll know for certain.

Some desktops apps should not be in the cloud. Letting the cloud generate your passwords is a bad idea. Complexity kills and the cloud ain't simple. Who has outsourced what to wher…

Why you should not use the cloud: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjfaCoA2sQk Yes, it's funny, but also very true. Many of us have to actually deal with all of these buzzwords. You …

Another problem fixed with duct tape!

100 years ago they were predicting that the world would starve to death because of the industrial revolution. "All the people are moving off the farms, who will grow food to feed u…

It's easy... rather than the Ctrl+A key sequence that you use in screen, use Ctrl+B in tmux. And to reattach, rather than screen -r, tmux attach does the trick. That's 90% of the u…

After this, can we still make fun of C++? I use it daily and love it. Sure, it takes someone with a brain to use it, but once you learn C++, nothing else comes close for speed and …

If the processors are responsible, then they were doing it right before the acronym PCI ever existed. To become compliant costs money (audits, quarterly scans, self-assessments, et…

Speaking as someone who deals with this on a daily basis, I say not true. PCI is common sense written down into an "industry standard". You don't have to do it, it's not a law. But…

My favorite: "It's fucking cold!"

Linux is notorious for that sort of thing. Look at the Linux Documentation Project. The installation how to was written in 1999 and has not been updated since. I use Debian and kno…

Add or remove RAM (basically change the amount) clear NV memory three times (you'll hear the dong 3 times) and that will clear the OpenFirmware password... at least on older PPC Ma…

You mean simple things. The preamble to the GPL is longer than the entire ISC license... by like 5 times. GCC is like 100 times more complex than PCC. BSD folks like simple, secure…

C and C++ for starters.

I think in C++... if you want to be sure the method/function does not alter the data globally and speed is not a concern, then pass by copy. If you want the method to alter the dat…