Archive for November, 2008



Dr. Michael Geist writes that the Ontario Legislature just passed Bill-85.  HUH?  How come this is so media-silent?
Didn’t anyone stop to take clues from the US about the broadly-publicized RFID password vulnerabilities?  As a security guy, I’m a little shocked.  And a lot appalled.

I’ve always liked mind maps for brainstorming difficult concepts.  I find they are a great way of logically expressing, formulating and grouping thoughts that are hard to articulate.

I decided to modify my dns-323 scripts to keep my media organized.
Instead of monitoring /incoming for torrents, these scripts monitor /media/movies, /media/mp3 and /media/tv.  when .torrent files are detected, they download to the appropriate /media subdirectory.  transmission stops when the files are downloaded, and any rars are unpacked.
edit 4-dec-08: I think there’s a bug with […]

Here’s a great detailed deployment example for something I’ve been working with a lot lately:  SAML v2 Using Sun OpenSSO Enterprise 8.0

from http://wiki.dns323.info/information:known_issues
Description: When using the iTunesServer WEB GUI, sometimes the GUI gets corrupted. After this, the iTunesServer WEB GUI can no longer be used.
Workaround: Telnet to the device and “cp /sys/crfs/default/mt-daapd.conf /etc/mt-daapd.conf”