Category: General

On April 12, 2005, Microsoft released MS05-019 to address several vulnerabilities in the IP implementation. One of the issues addressed was CVE CAN-2004-1060, a...

Sometimes you just want to reach across the Net with your Mighty Clue-by-Four and revise all incorrect, or partial, examples in one fell swoop. Here’s one...

This must be the season for private bills. Sen. Santorum (R) of Pennsylvania has introduced a bill that would ban the federal government’s meteorologists ...

I must first disclaim that I have not read Mr. Barnett’s book, but I have skimmed his web site. Therefore with something approaching more authority than m...

So the other day, Little Sister did y, and so we said she couldn’t watch a show. She didn’t particularly care about missing 64 Zoo Lane. She missed ...

Little Sister, there’s a special visitor coming to tumbling class this morning. Guess who it is. Daddy! No, but good guess. 😀

For some time now the New York State Department of Transportation has been studying what to do with a section of Route 22 between I-684 and Doansburg Road. Thei...

It appears to me that while County or State or Federal jurisdiction over the highways helps pay for them, and gives a semblance of regional concern, the people ...

When I use my down-level version of Safari, Google says, Your browser is not officially supported by Google Maps. In order to improve the user experience here, ...

Just watched the Democratic Convention on The West Wing, and it was much more exciting than the real-life snoozefest in 2004.

Disney’s World.

At a site where I use Blogger, someone commented. Looks like there’s a problem with either Blogger or the template I’m using: so he commented at 6:3...

Can you imagine the trouble that could be caused if letter like symbols were allowed in domain names? In the paper he links from there, letter-like symbols, I l...

I’d say some glib and meaningful here, but what I really want to make are observations about a company. Maybe I should get an opinion on this that isnR...

I just noticed that Google now displays satellite images in the map results. This is the really neat, and paranoia-inducing, upshot of their earlier purchase of...

Firefox fails to check the prefetched cache before requesting the next page when the in-memory cache-size is allocated. To repeat, set browser.cache.memory.capa...

The ProdigyBiz environment was shutdown today. In order to deliver the best user experience, we did not simply turn off the boxes, but are instead delivering a ...

May Terri Schiavo rest in peace. While much of what I have heard regarding Mrs. Schiavo focused on whether she should die, I find it troubling that a less ethic...

Firefox pre-fetches, but only sometimes uses the cached result.

Paul Hoffman announced the release of Bruce Schneier’s and his Internet Draft on Attacks on Cryptographic Hashes in Internet Protocols. It’s readabl...