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Ouch. I’m sure glad I don’t work there. They plan to cut more then 35,000 jobs over the next three years. The stock is tumbling because there are fears that Bank of America will become Nationalized. I once worked for a large “Bank In America” myself. The place that I worked for wasn’t all that […]

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I downloaded VMware Server the other day. It took a day or so to get it working. Apparently there are a few known bugs that are not very well documented. At any rate, I’ve decided to build a few VM’s. I started with FreeBSD and the beta copy of Windows 7. I’m impressed with Windows […]

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I generally cringe when I need to update my OS.  Though Linux goes on fairly easily, its a hassle to get things the way you want them (flash, browser plugins, etc).  SO, I came across a few others that went though the pain before me and just copied their work: Personal Fedora 10 Installation Guide […]

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I sent out my HP laptop to be repaired by HP. The hinge on the laptop had broken and HP said to send it back to them and they’d fix it. Flippin’ sweet I say. So I backed up my home directory and popped it into a box and sent it to them. They were […]

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Since the last post consisted of Buffer overflow instructions, I decided to post a little hacker history here.L0pht Heavy Industries was a Boston based hacker group. Of the group, Mudge may be one of the more “well known” members, though they are all cult heros in their own way. The Hacker Crackdown by Bruce Sterling […]

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The old Buffer Overflow has been around for a long time. You don’t hear about it much as a Java developer because Java programs run in a JVM; a controlled environment that doesn’t allow memory to be used/accessed outside the virtual machine. The idea of a buffer overflow (in a nutshell) is to discover what […]

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Kill / Love Large Hadron Collider

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We’ll be house hunting this weekend on Long Island.  If anyone wants to get together this weekend on either Long Island or Queens, let me know.  Perhaps Dinner/Drinks/Movie or something? *shrug*  I’ll probably want to make it an early evening, house hunting wears me out.

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School starts again this week.  I think I’ll register today.  Graduate school costs an arm and a leg.  It’ll cost me close to $4,000 for one class, but, with only a handful of classes left, I’m to vested to stop going.  I’ve started looking for Ph.D programs to apply to.  If anyone has a suggestion […]

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ok, this is the last book review of the day: Stone Cold by David Baldacci. Not a bad read. Another CIA type thriller about an underground club called the Camel Club. The Camel Club is a rag-tag group of misfits that explore government plots. I’m kind of predictable in that I love books like this