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I remember hearing about the WikiReader [1] a few years back and thinking it would be great for this sort of use. It's basically a cheap handheld device with an LCD display and a l…

Here's the overview page for the Galileo board: http://www.intel.com/support/galileo/index.htm It has links for downloads, specs, tutorials, etc. Looks like they won't be available…

Well how about that. Thanks for the link. I remember reading an article in 2600 where someone figured out that quite a few websites took a PHP filename as a query arg to be eval'd.…

Yeah, that was a bit of a logical leap. I can see that the code analysis was probably done after getting a disk image now. I think the original lead probably came from his second b…

Haven't finished the complaint yet, but it looks to me like the FBI found a security vulnerability in the Silk Road website itself. More specifically, it looks like they found a wa…

I am so happy they decided to include comparison operators in text/template and html/template [1]. It drove me nuts to have to write comparison functions and call them from within …

Incidentally, most deadbolts are ridiculously easy to pick. I can get into my front door deadbolt in about a minute with a multitool and a safety pin bent into the shape of a pick …

Can never turn down an opportunity for a one-liner. $ perl -E 'open(my $fh, " ; close $fh; say join " ", map {$words[int rand @words]} 1..4' menu chemists administrative seeps Migh…

You may find sshuttle interesting [1]. It's essentially VPN implemented via SSH tunnel. [1]: https://github.com/apenwarr/sshuttle

That's all well and good, but I have still not given authorization for the use of my network to the malicious user. An open network invites legal dispute as to whether the lack of …

Honestly, I use WEP encryption because I know that WiFi security is a house of cards in general. As you've said, it's enough to prevent the typical user from leeching bandwidth. Th…

Looks like I might end up working Cap'n Proto after all. I've no experience with 0MQ, but it seems if Cap'n Proto's RPC is designed flexibly enough it would at least be able to sup…

I'm not going to lie; it took me a little while to wrap my head around those stubs before implementing a TCP transport and semaphore triggers to unblock outstanding RPC function ca…

Hi, Kenton. First: thanks for your work on Protocol Buffers. I've used it fairly extensively for RPC communications between C++/Java clients and a Java service. It made things so m…