… this is just too interesting not to comment: http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/03/the-worlds-most-mysterious-potentially-destructive-malware-is-not-stuxnet/ Basically, this is one of the most well-engineered pieces of malware; so much so that researchers still don’t know how it spreads. I highly recommend you read the whole thing, but some highlights about the malware: Cryptographically obfuscated payload – […]
EDIT:I got the interactive chart working! yay! [cf]weight chart[/cf]
So, I’m going to wax philosophical for a bit here and talk about knowledge as it pertains to behavior and life experience. I’ve found that some of the best behavioral changes in my life have come from things I’ve known my whole life, such as moderation in food portions and […]
So, as a result of not understanding Amazon EC2 and not having backups, I’ve lost some months of data and changes to the server. You can believe I now have backups.
So, I experienced quite a bit of data loss and was forced to restore the site from a quite dated backup. I won’t be re-writing the posts that were lost for now, but I will be setting up a more resilient backup solution, most likely off-site. Sucks.
For the uninitiated, I live in the United States of America. This country has a lot of really awesome things going for it, and I wouldn’t want to have spent my life thus far anywhere else, but one thing that gets me riled up is “faith” in this country and […]
What the actual fuck? So, the Senate rejected an amendment to the NDAA (National Defense Authorization Act) that would’ve prohibited the Government’s powers to detain, arrest and even assassinate American citizens. The only reputable source for this news that I’ve found comes from the ACLU. Two issues I have with […]
For those interested, here is some specs on what’s running the site: Hardware: MSI Wind 1.6GHz Dual Core Atom Processor 2GB of RAM 1TB Harddrive Internal Wireless Card, 10/100 Ethernet Operating System: XBMC Live (Ubuntu-based, boots in ~30s) Software: XMBC, Mumble, Minecraft Server (more on this below), Deluge, Apache, MySQL […]
