So, yesterday was the big day. The Coming of The Tablet. I’m not exactly a big tech pundit. I’ve never seen an iPad in person. I haven’t even played with the emulator yet. But I thought I’d still post my immediate reactions.
The Name: It’s not that bad. It doesn’t trigger the same juvenile “feminine products” [...]
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iPad Reactions
SpamAssassin 2010 Bug
Hey all. One of the sysadmins at Mudd, Claire Connelly, pointed out that there’s a widespread bug in SpamAssassin that might cause large numbers of false positives on mail sent after 2010-01-01. Apparently, the “date in future” rule is hardcoded to look for years after 2010. You can read more at LWN; the short of [...]
New Machine
I picked up a new computer last week. A virtual one, that is. I ran into this site called prgmr which offers very low-cost, bare virtual private servers. So far, so good. Got Debian set up all the way I like it. Now just to find something fun to do with it.
Recipe to Crash a Kindle
Here’s a fun thing that I’ve just discovered:
Purchase an Amazon Kindle 2 (this trick may work on other versions)
Download the MobiPocket version of The Devil’s Dictionary, by Ambrose Bierce
Copy the .mobi file into your Kindle documents folder
Open the copy of the book that appears on your device
Enjoy the frequent crashes and random “java.lang.integer” exception errors [...]
New GPG Key
As you may have seen around the Internet, there was a fairly significant break in the SHA-1 hash function, which is used by default in GnuPG. This is worrisome, since GPG/PGP signatures are one of the only things I’d actually trust to verify somebody’s identity online. So I’ve generated a new key with a 2048-bit [...]
