Lock Bumping
Posted by creining | Filed under Security
Lock bumping works on 90% of locks. A good hack.
Daily Street Art
Posted by creining | Filed under Photography
Streetsy is a site where 7-10 pictures of street art are posted every day. When I was at the Art Fair on the Square this summer I really liked the photography of Xavier Nuez who did a series Alleys & Fire Escapes, which do to the subject matter featured some street art / graffiti.
Banks Shifting Logins to Non-SSL Pages
Posted by creining | Filed under Security
Banks Shifting Logins to Non-SSL Pages as my local bank recently did. One day, I noticed that they had added a section to enter credentials for online banking to their main page which was HTTP. I was concerned as I immediately thought that they were (insanely) doing plaintext HTTP with customers credentials. But upon further investigation, I found that they were using the HTTP method CONNECT to connect to the SSL-ified login page, which is safe.
Mashup mania
Posted by creining | Filed under Uncategorized
I’ve been listening to a few different mashup albums over the past few months. Of course, there’s the infamous Grey Album by DJ Danger Mouse that combined Jay-Z’s The Black Album with The Beatles The White Album. But much more brilliant is the work of The Kleptones who’ve combined dusty Queen songs with classic and modern rap on A Night at the Hip-Hopera. Yoshimi Battles The Hip Hop Robots and From Detroit To J.A. are also available from The Kleptones and are really good spins as well. Not quite on par with The Kleptones, but just as genius, is a mashup by DJ Cappel that blends Sinatra with Notorious BIG on Blue Eyes Meets Bed-Stuy. Not a mashup but worth mentioning is a complete soundtrack to Super Mario World covered by one man.
The Phishiest
Posted by creining | Filed under Security
The Phishiest Countries as well as the Phishiest Hosters as reported by Netcraft.
Roasting coffee at home
Posted by creining | Filed under Food
I’m going to try roasting coffee beans at home. There’s a great site that has all kinds of information and products for home coffee roasting. The Popcorn Air Popper method is the most recommended. I’ll see if I can pick up a cheap recommended popper at the thrift store. I’ll probably do the thermometer mod too.
WAL-MART: The High Cost of Low Price
Posted by creining | Filed under Uncategorized
I RSVP’ed to attend a screening in my area of WAL-MART: The High Cost of Low Price. It’s directed by Robert Greenwald of whose movies I’ve seen include the documentary Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch’s War on Journalism which I really enjoyed.
Business Readiness Rating
Posted by creining | Filed under Linux/BSD
The Business Readiness Rating is a proposed open standard that will “give companies a trusted, unbiased source for determining whether the open source software they are considering is mature enough to adopt”. I think this is an excellent idea. As we all know, there is enterprise grade software that is open source such as Linux itself, MySQL, Apache, Snort, Squid, and OpenBSD’s pf. Many large corporations use this software in production but there are other companies which may balk at using open source for various reasons including support and the fear that they’ll have to pay for the software in the future (silly, yes). I think one of the best things that could come out of the BRR is that companies will share the fact that they adopted software X so when other companies are presenting open source alternatives to the PHB’s they can show that other companies use software X in production.