Monthly Archives: January 2004

People have long speculated about the never expiring cookie that you get from Google when you search on their site. Privacy advocates have been waving their hands in the air since Google became popular. Jeremy (Jeremy Zawodny’s blog: Why Google … Continue reading →

See Yahoo! News – Teen Boys Pimp Even Younger Girls in Oakland Police in Oakland say teenage boys are pimping even younger girls, convincing kids as young as 12 to sell their bodies. Sgt. James Kelly of the special crimes … Continue reading →

See Yahoo! News – Flower-Power Could Help Clear Land Mines The genetically modified weed has been coded to change color when its roots come in contact with nitrogen-dioxide (NO2) evaporating from explosives buried in soil. Within three to six weeks … Continue reading →

For whatever reason I have had a lot of comments that have been nothing more than blog spam. I can’t see why I would be a target specificially, most likely this is the result of automated scripts running on the … Continue reading →

Seeing that I have had to do this twice now this month, I figured I would post this brief HOWTO. 1. Use the software cd 1 of 2 to recover root password 2. Boot cdrom -s from ok prompt 3. … Continue reading →

It seems like some of the best ideas are the simplest ones. The things that make you say to yourself “why didn’t I think of that”? In that spirit you should check out Teleflip, a simple, free, online service that … Continue reading →

This post is rated PG-13. Parents Strongly Cautioned. Some material may be inappropriate for children under 13. This signifies that the film rated may be inappropriate for pre-teens. Parents should be especially careful about letting their younger children attend. Rough … Continue reading →

Entropy is used by the random number generator on your system for things like SSL, SSH and GPG, put simply encryption. On FreeBSD 4 it is possible to increase the inputs to generate entropy for your system (usefull if you … Continue reading →

You know you are cool when you get your own Google logo.

From How to make a bootable OpenBSD CD on www.shockley.net On a Unix machine with the files in /iso/openbsd/3.4 # mkisofs -v -r -l -L -T -J -V “OpenBSD-3.4″ -A “OpenBSD v3.4-Release, Custom ISO, 2004-01-15.” -b i386/cdrom34.fs -c boot.catalog -o … Continue reading →