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The time is now for action.

The time is now for action.

It was the best of... the fucking worst of times. But the only way is forward, and with that new beginnings. You can give up or you can do something. Anything really to give a little agency. One little step forward. Then another. Wash, rinse, and repeat... you can do

Rumsfeld knew U.S. tortured and killed

Wow. Just wow. Rumsfeld Knew His Guys Were Torturing People to Death

Almost there

So after about 3 days of work, the new server (Malbec, which continues my naming convention of alcohol) is now running almost all of the services for my domains. As mentioned before, the new box is very noticeably faster, which was the main goal. It’s most noticeable for the

New server time...

The current server (1.25Ghz G4 MacMini w/ 1GB of RAM) running all of synfin.net is showing it’s age and limitations, so I’ve bought a new one (2Ghz Core2Duo MacMini w/ 2GB of RAM). Definitely a lot faster, so I’m pretty stoked. Of course this means

Flowreplay is dead

I’m officially killing flowreplay as a future feature of tcpreplay. After giving more thought to this problem and where protocols and applications are going, it’s become clear to me that the goals of flowreplay are unobtainable. The basic issue is that protocols/applications are becoming more state based

I feel like I'm in Alice and Wonderland

Today was a pretty important day in San Francisco. After reading Wired’s coverage of the 9th Circuit hearing on the NSA’s spying, and AT&T’s alleged complicity, I’m left hopeful that the three judges will do the right thing and let both cases move forward.

No more 5th Amendment

You didn’t really need it anyways right? And here I thought you needed to go through Congress to alter the Constitution. Apparently, I didn’t pay enough attention in my US Gov’t class, because apparently the President can just declare it null and void.

Nework maintenance

According to Speakeasy: On Wednesday night/Thursday morning, August 9th and August 10th 2006, we will be performing scheduled maintenance on the Point of Presence (POP) through which your Broadband connection is routed. Maintenance will begin at 11:59 PM PDT on Wednesday night and end by 03:00 AM

More site news

Well looks like Speakeasy had about a 2hr DSL outtage at my POP so my site went down. Doh. Oh well things are back up and everything seems grand. On a completely unrelated note, I’ve just re-enabled Project Honeypot for synfin.net. If you haven’t setup a honey

Where does one begin?

Your random quiz for the day: Basically, a 12yr old boy has been charged with a felony for: a) Bringing a gun to school b) Selling drugs to his classmates c) Joking that the powered sugar for his science experiment was cocaine Meanwhile… Vice President Dick Cheney made a far

Moved to WordPress

Well I finally got sick of writing custom code/templates (I’ve used static files using templates/Makefiles as well as dynamic pages using Perl/HTML::Mason). While I’m quite proficent with Class::DBI and PostgreSQL, it just wasn’t worth the effort of writing all the administrator forms

More news is good news

Two things of note recently… tcpreplay 3.0.beta6 was released which continues to fix bugs reported by all the beta testers out there. Many thanks to them for keeping me honest. On a more political note, SCOTUS recently ruled that eminent domain extends to allow the government to take