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It's been a while since I used it on "embedded systems" but in our case it was running on top of OpenWRT and OpenBSD on appliance-like SOC systems (think of Soekris and Mikrotik), …

I worked with Lutz, the primary developer, briefly in 2006. I used NewLISP for a few years after that, mostly for distributed computing with net-eval(). I briefly tried using it as…

When writing, read your work out loud to find phrases that are awkward to speak, and think of ways to be more succinct. Most people process spoken and written language differently,…

Hotplugd is crazysauce. So much you can do with it. Toad claims to need kern.usermount so it won't work with a default install, and will be toadally broken once this option is remo…

As someone who's used OpenBSD daily as a primary desktop OS, usermount will force me to use doas(1) (the replacement for sudo) to mount external media on my desktops/laptops. No bi…

A cautionary tale: I had good luck with ZoneEdit when they launched. It was/is kind of in the same space as this. Their new UI is okay, but yours looks a bit better. They started o…

better script to test if your ISP is blocking your ports (finished for me in well under two minutes): nmap -sT -oN output.txt -p1-65535 open.zorinaq.com

FWIW, Debian's package manager (and its concepts of package repositories and dependency resolution) hasn't changed much since I tried it in 2001 -- and probably even earlier than t…

Hackers do everything they do for fun. If it's not fun, it's not worth doing. It's important to note that fun things can be hard and very challenging, be it a grueling mountain bik…

No, this does not open Apple up to lawsuits. Any corporation has the option of telling you what configurations are supported, and choosing to not support configurations that are th…

Doesn't fail gracefully with javascript disabled. That's three strikes all at once for me. Thankfully, they still have a full-content RSS feed if you dig around deep enough for it.…

Most ICE's will run on pretty much anything as long as you nail stoichiometry and it burns at approximately the same speed as the hydrocarbon chains found in gasoline. It's actuall…

That sounds an awful lot like lazy and/or out-of-touch entrepreneurs being broken to me. Still, while the venture and angel money in the area isn't explicitly "must be present to w…

No, that is an XSS exploitation (juxtapose: prevention) cheat sheet.

Exactment. Also, people damage the heads and/or the jack by trying to insert them the wrong way? Either the plug slides in gently, or it doesn't budge.

Without a massive boost in senility, a lobotomy or way too many psychoactive drugs, isn't it kind of hard for one to become a "former genius?"

I'm AT WORK 45, sometimes 55 hours per week. Productivity comes in spurts. I'm basically working in a field that's also one of my passionate hobbies, so while part of my work day i…

In that whole thing, there's no numbers or names to back anything up. There's one hyperbole ($100 spent in ads to sell one book) and a bunch of really vague "people I know..." rhet…

It wasn't an overt knock on TSN -- I just don't watch many movies, so I really don't know what to expect. Aside from the geek jargon and a bit of drama, I suppose I was surprised t…

I finally saw this last night. It wasn't a BAD movie: Reznor's score was magnificent, they didn't mince hacker jargon and it was interesting enough to sit through. It boggles my mi…

"leaving not only the juicy bits there for all to read but corporate hardware unattended and ripe for the picking." was indeed one of the threats I mentioned, and it happens all th…

I couldn't imagine using my old Canon point and shoot (PowerShot A530) without CHDK. If you load it onto an SD Card with a "bootable" partition flag and enable the write-protect ta…

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It wasn't around in the 1960s, but Crunchly was definitely one of the things I had to go back in time and appreciate, despite having not been born when most of them were drawn. htt…

Everywhere I go, I see people who look at confidential information on laptops that are facing a crowdfull of eyeballs. Better yet, many of them get up and leave for a smoke or a pi…