Tuesday, January 25, 2011

A final suggested read

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David Reed passed along a pointer to this paper by Dan Geer: A Time for Choosing Please read it, and understand the founding spirit of the I...
Tuesday, January 18, 2011

I'm leaving Oracle, and switching gears

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15 years ago I was finishing up last-minute changes at NRL while getting ready to move coasts. While I'm not moving coasts, I'm at...
Tuesday, November 2, 2010

MAC-then-encrypt - also harmful, also hard to do in Solaris

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Hello again! Kenny Paterson's once again turning the theoretical into practical. This time he's pointed out that if one configures...
Thursday, August 19, 2010

Thinking about the Birthday Problem on my Birthday, as it applies to my Birthday Present

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My birthday is upon me. My birthday present was an iPhone 4 . Yeah, I got it early, but it was nice to have for my just-finished vacation d...
Sunday, February 7, 2010

Do a "pkg image-update" with multiple zones!!!

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Hello you half-dozen readers! Recently I reinstalled my home server to OpenSolaris, build 130. I used zfs send and zfs recv to recover m...
Wednesday, January 27, 2010

I, for one, welcome our new database-selling overlords.

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In all honesty, I'm glad this regulatory dance is over. We've all been having a little itch in our brains about this. Even if any ...
Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Wanna help your Girl Scouts? Not unless you have Windows. :-P

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My wife is the "cookie mom" for our twin girls who are in Daisy Scouts. She was very surprised when she logged in to the regional...