Cool

A collection of 25 posts

Cool

Quick thoughts about Let's Encrypt

So I just switched over from StartSSL to Let’s Encrypt for all of Syn Fin dot Net’s SSL needs and wanted to give a few thoughts about the process: It’s a very different experience getting up and started. I’ve used a variety of SSL CA’s

Cool

GPX Pro Review Part 2

This is an update for my original XT Racing GPX Pro Review. First, let me say that the reliability problems I had in the past with the screen seem to have been solved. It’s been nearly three full years and the screen is still working just fine. That said,

Cool

XT Racing GPX Pro Review

Note, this is a review of the first generation GPX Pro, not the current GPX Pro4/8 units- however, much of this review should apply to both units. Overall, I’m in love with the GPX Pro- it’s a great cost effective solution for capturing and analyzing data while

Cool

Tweet! Tweet!

Yes, I’m on Twitter now.

Cabernet

Plug Computing == Cabernet Solution?

So I was just reading about Marvell’s Plug Computing solution. Basically a $100 (goal is to get the price point down to $50) Linux based computer in the form factor of a wall wart. First let me say this is really damn cool. Cheap, small form factor, low power

Cool

Great idea, bad example

So a buddy of mine at work (thanks Mike!) sent me this cool link about how to use real math to measure the complexity of user interfaces. I read the article (feel free to go read it now) and I loved the idea of quantitatively measuring the effort required to

Cool

Stopping wordpress spam bots

I was having a big problem for a few months with spam bots registering user accounts on my blog. Generally, the bots would register accounts assuming (incorrectly) my anti-spam software was more likely to let their comments if they came from a registered account. As you might imagine, this gets

Cool

So awesome...

Once upon a time there was a website: www.justfuckinggoogleit.com which was a great way to express to people that their question was easily answered by a quick search on Google. Alas, the Google-gods struck down the site and sent a cease-and-desist letter which removed much of the functionality

Cool

Free your mind

So I’ve just got into this whole mind-mapping thing. Mind maps are basically a way to organize thoughts and take notes in a graphical form, where you break things up into simple and short comments and link them together in a graph. The same hierarchy can of course be

Cool

Boxee: What AppleTV should of been

So I just got an Apple TV. Honestly, even after paying 30% less for a refurb and getting free shipping, I’m not that impressed. For $300 I’d expect a device to support more file formats and the tight link to iTunes to a single iTunes database is annoying

Cool

Happy Happy Joy Joy!

Finally! San Francisco 49ers fire Mike Nolan! As a life-long 49er fan, all I can say is, it’s about damn time.

Cool

Capital One makes it right

So I’ve been freaking out the last week after getting a letter in the mail from Capital One stating that my final payment of $73 on my car loan was 30 days past due. This was a rather big surprise to me since my contract states they are to

Cool

Up Against Big Brother

I found this an interesting article in California Lawyer Magazine on the history and current activities of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. It’s not the longest or most detailed research article, but I think it’s an excellent primer on the goals and methods of the EFF.

Cool

Easy as 1 2 3...

Another day, another WordPress upgrade. Once again, for the most part pretty painless. The database schema change broke some custom code I wrote in my template, but turns out here’s a nice API call which does exactly the same thing. I’ve also taken the opportunity to make a

Cool

To Remember

So I bought some wine at BevMo. One of the bottles was a Yulumba Viognier from Australia. While this was neither the best or worst Viogner I’ve ever had, what made this bottle memorable was this “To Remember” pull tab on the back label. Basically, there’s a perforated

Cool

Radiant Vista == Photo Happiness

So I’m probably way behind everyone else, but I just found The Radiant Vista a few weeks ago. This is a very cool photography website for both experts and beginners. Every day there’s a new video critique of a photograph and they go over all sorts of photography

Cool

0x09f911029d74e35bd84156c5635688c0

Wow. I must say, I’m impressed. It’s not every day you see someone listen to their users. Seriously, major props to Kevin and everyone at Digg.

Cool

3.0.0 final(ly) released

I’m happy to announce that tcpreplay 3.0.0 has officially been released. 3.0 is a complete rewrite of the old 2.x branch which is now officially EOL. During the 3.0 rewrite I had four main goals: 1. Clean up and reorganize the code to make

Cool

DLT plugin API now ready!

So during the superbowl, I finished up the final touches on the DLT plugin API and got the first plugin fully working (ethernet of course). Why should you care? If you’re not interested in adding support for a DLT to tcprewrite, you probaby care only because it makes it

Code

Multithreaded server in 5 lines? Damn.

Ok, last post was a rant was about how Ruby sucks. This post is about how damned cool it is. Long story short, I needed to switch some code from a fork() model to multithreaded or select(). I really wasn’t excited about working with threads or Ruby’s rather

Cool

Brazil

So earlier this week I couldn’t sleep, so I read email and watched the movie Brazil. I didn’t know much about the movie before seeing it, other then it being an Orwellian look at the future and was considered to be a really good movie. Brazil didn’t

Cool

Sometimes you just get luckly...

Decided to finally make the jump to HDTV. Lots of reasons really (quality up, prices lower, etc). Did all my research, and narrowed it down to the Sony KDS-55A2000 55″ SXRD rear projection set. Did a lot of price shopping: On Amazon: $2,500 On Crutchfield: $3,000 At Magnolia:

/dev/random

Great quote

I have a poorly maintained hobby of keeping track of great quotes. Just recently I read another great quote which I found very timely considering what is going on in the world and the US of late: As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an

Cool

Defective By Design?

Would you believe that some products that you and I buy today are designed to be defective? That is to say that these products could do things which the designers went out of their way to prevent you from doing with them? Why? Since when in a world when companies

Cool

Thanks Ralph!

Just want to thank Ralph for sending me a DVD of Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit from my Amazon wishlist for my work on tcpreplay. Thanks Ralph!