On Windows 7 And The NSA

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I can not believe how many people complain just to be sure that they have not lost the ability to do so. Recently, there has been growing concern that `backdoors` may appear in Windows 7, simply because the NSA participated in part of its development. To my knowledge, the only back door in Windows 7 [...]

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GCC Easter Eggs – Shorter Enum Storage

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This is the first in what will likely be a long series of posts regarding features in GCC that I find to be less than obvious. Technically, an easter egg (in a program) is some sort of functionality that accessed by undocumented and non-obvious means. To the less than guru regarding GCC, a _lot_ of [...]

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How To Bait A Scammer

I love G-Mail, I really do. It filters out almost all SPAM (almost) which makes what comes through a source of recreation. I’m just waiting for the day when I can ship dead, heavy computers to a Nigerian Scammer with postage they prepay .. several times! BONUS: Really funny death threats, the ‘governor’ may be [...]

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‘Crumby’ Engineering Shuts Down The LHC (Again)

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The truth is, indeed, stranger than fiction. In case you did not know, the LHC was shut down again, this time due to a passing bird dropping a bread crumb into some of its external (exposed) machinery. Insert your favorite AHEM.. here. This caused a spike that produced so much heat that the collider’s fail [...]

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Self Realization

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I was thinking of the immortal words of Socrates who said .. “I DRANK WHAT??!!” +1 If you can tell me what movie that was from. The wiki link is provided as a public service for the terminally uncultured (or miscultured, depending on if you consider that a word).

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Fun With EncFS

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A lot of you have probably, at one time or another, had to deal with PCI/DSS compliance.  I’ve dealt with it too, but this is the first time that I’ve really confronted conforming to HIPAA and HITECH, which dictate how medical records should be stored. EncFS is the perfect solution in such a case. Its [...]

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Skype To Open Its Linux Client?

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I came across this while reading my e-mail this morning and almost lost a mouth full of coffee. The last time that happened, Microsoft had just sent patches to the Linux kernel mailing list. It appears that soon (as in very soon), I’ll be able to actually get rid of the only copy of Windows [...]

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