Benson's Blag

RT @tsudo: System Administrator Appreciate Day is tomorrow Fri July 31. Hug your admin...

Aug 1st

I don’t understand, but it’s funny. RT @jack_daniel: Take off your pants to keep from...

Aug 1st

RT @SecAdept: Direct link to Apple’s iPhone 3.0.1 security update, for those interested:...

Aug 1st

RT @SecAdept: iPhone OS 3.01 release to fix big Blackhat SMS flaw. Apple hasn’t updated Sec...

Aug 1st

All this talk of #blackhat and #defcon has me thinking maybe I should get a different job, so I can...

Jul 30th

This article on “mind wandering” may help explain the ballmer peak: http://idek.net/MFN

Jul 30th

RT @leahculver: The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. http://bit.ly/5ECwG

Jul 30th

It looks like @firefox scales images poorly when setting backgrounds. What gives?...

Jul 30th

RT @burke_eric: If your mother never lets you have an extra cookie, you might grow up to work as an...

Jul 30th

RT @dacort: How about in addition to #twitviewer ppl stop using these “TONS OF...

Jul 29th

RT @schuetzdj: Is this a little out of hand this year? http://bit.ly/9lYfN Oracle shills? Calls for...

Jul 29th

RT @al3x: Proposing a new civic noise awareness campaign: “Put Your Shit On Vibrate”....

Jul 29th

RT @mckeay: If you ever need to look up who did a Service Provider’s PCI assessment, the list...

Jul 28th

This looks very cool: http://idek.net/Lqm Visualizing code as map of a space. (HT @dalmaer)

Jul 28th

I need to remember to play with Less CSS sometime… http://idek.net/Lrm It looks very cool.

Jul 28th

Anybody know? RT @overtfascist: Are there continuously variable transmissions for bikes?

Jul 28th

ranier

Jul 27th

http://twitpic.com/bst0n - ranier

Jul 27th

Incidentally, the kexststat command on OSX is similar to lsmod on the linux. The ioreg command is...

Jul 25th

I just found a copy of The Matrix. Such a good movie — it’s too bad they didn’t...

Jul 25th

Brand new MBP 15” has no sound devices found. Also, brightness controls do not work. Anybody...

Jul 25th

RT @kpyke: Flash is almost as big an atrocity as the ms publisher format.

Jul 25th

RT @pusscat: Heads up: there are currenty 2 distinct adobe 0day exploiting different vulns in the...

Jul 24th

RT @securityrant: The shrub of Info Security must at times be refreshed with the blood of security...

Jul 24th

RT @github: @dacort account == private info, profile == public info, dashboard == all your repos,...

Jul 23rd

Just got a brand new MBP 15” for work. Switching back to the old 17” is so...

Jul 23rd

What the hell kind of jackass do you have to be to ship an OS without a compiler? *grumbles and...

Jul 23rd

RT @mubix: Man I feel so safe when I see the words “Secure web interface included!”

Jul 23rd

Changing software requirements without any notification is starting to make me exceedingly angry.

Jul 23rd

RT @mike9r: Should you use a Flash intro for your site? This workflow diagram should help:...

Jul 22nd

RT @Niki7a: WTF Mars?!? When the house is in foreclosure you cancel the cable, not go to Mars. CUT...

Jul 21st

RT @mubix: DD-WRT remote root vulnerability (remote to httpd so possibly just internally) -...

Jul 21st

RT @puredanger @jaredrichardson: Brilliant approach to the @engineyard contest. Distributed...

Jul 21st

Played with scala a little tonight. I am favorably impressed. Will need time to play more and ponder...

Jul 21st

This new player @antisex is really amusing the hell out of me. Parody ftw!

Jul 17th

Campbell Scientific (www.campbellsci.com) hates customers? I’m just trying to find info on the...

Jul 16th

Shafty… RT @Niki7a: RT @ihackstuff PayPal shuts down Hackers For Charity: http://bit.ly/1ao6rt

Jul 16th

It appears Campbell Scientific is using call-by-name semantics in CRBasic. It’s blowing my...

Jul 16th

I’m fairly certain that botnets running slowloris would be devastating.

Jul 16th

Found some CRBasic info in “LoggerNet Datalogger Support Software” linked on this page:...

Jul 16th

An excellent time to revisit a classic old blog post: http://bit.ly/QdSuE

Jul 16th

0077 is a retarded default umask, and it makes my rubygems very sad.

Jul 15th

find . -type d -exec chmod 755 ‘{}’ \; ; find . -type f -exec chmod 644 ‘{}’...

Jul 15th

I hate it when people alienate women in the computer industry. A few months ago it was the Ruby...

Jul 14th

Every so often somebody does something chauvanist and irritates the few women in their corner of the...

Jul 14th

Apparently not everyone has seen this yet. RT @shazzzam: My thoughts on the Defcon CTF comic strip...

Jul 14th

20 Questions about the GPL — this is a great example of why I don’t like the GPL so much...

Jul 14th

RT @_wac Swearing Provides Pain Relief, Say Scientists http://bit.ly/Q9Kuw

Jul 13th

If you’re a rails hacker have a look at the Enumerable#group_by addition. It rocks.

Jul 13th

The jQuery flot library (http://code.google.com/p/flot/) is surprisingly easy to use and makes...

Jul 13th

Seconded. RT @dsmcl: If on a Mac, you should try the Google Quick Search Box: http://bit.ly/WvFZB

Jul 13th

Had a great (if occasionally stressful) 35 mile ride on the tandem with Ashleigh. :-)

Jul 12th

Why Wolfram Alpha fails: http://bit.ly/huVIF

Jul 11th

It seems reusing existing code takes longer and introduces more cruft than starting from scratch....

Jul 11th

This is an amusing but disturbingly accurate satire of our news programs: http://idek.net/Irk

Jul 10th

A really interesting read WRT the MSVIDCTL.DLL bug. Hat tip to @AndrewMcHarg for the link....

Jul 10th

I kind of hate that this is considered news. RT @Zee: Google CEO Eric Schmidt caught using a...

Jul 10th

After work tandem ride: http://is.gd/1qIh6

Jul 9th

FF 3.5 is chewing through CPU like mad. I’m not sure why. Occasionally it just beach balls for...

Jul 9th

RT @defunkt: Have two bugs you want to report? File two bug reports. Not one.

Jul 9th

Anone know how hard it is to do a RHEL 5 install on a software RAID 0 setup?

Jul 9th

RT @cbyrd01: @bensonk42 I think using web filtering to enforce “productivity” is...

Jul 8th

Had a fantastic weekend — put 50 miles on the new tandem, went to Ashleigh’s...

Jul 7th

The new twitter app @elliottkember will be releasing soon rocks.

Jul 7th

RT @mckt_: Web Developers: On Linux you can’t lay HTML content on top of Flash. If your...

Jul 7th

Seattle: Please do not form chains of slow-moving hand-holding human roadblock across the entire...

Jul 6th

Awesome commentary on the price of paranoid politics: http://bit.ly/nWWhy

Jul 4th

RT @paulandstorm: [S] Lobbyist accuses Wash Post of trying to peddle influence. I think I just got...

Jul 3rd

RT @gcluley: Serious SMS vulnerability in Apple iPhones http://tinyurl.com/kjats4 (IDG reports)

Jul 3rd

This just in: Moronic Judge To Ruin Internet http://idek.net/Haz

Jul 2nd