There’s so many version control projects out there for software development, but which one is the best? In the last week or so i’ve run into 3 or 4 sites/blogs for software apps that either mentioned that they’ve changed over to a new DVCS or they …

A kill command from a wireless carrier could be used to remotely disable a netbook? wtf?!

How silly of me to think I could go a year without a reboot. I guess that’s what I get for ignoring my site over the weekend. Luckily, it didn’t crash until late last night. Oh well… note to self, monitor your own web servers!!!

The vmrun command makes administering VMware virtual machines fast and easy when you’re stuck dealing with VMware Server 2.0. I really hate the web interface. It’s not responsive and in my opinion, a huge step backwards from the old 1.x consoles.

Install Bro - Network-based Intrusion Detection, on Fedora or Ubuntu. Bro will get installed in /usr/local/bro/ by default, unless you specified a prefix in configure as I did. I also created a bro user and group to own everything and did the make as that bro user.

Bro is intended for use by sites requiring flexible, highly customizable intrusion detection. It is important to understand that Bro has been developed primarily as a research platform for intrusion detection and traffic analysis. It is not intended for someone seeking an “out of the box” solution. Bro is designed for use by Unix experts who place a premium on the ability to extend an intrusion detection system with new functionality as needed, which can greatly aid with tracking evolving attacker techniques as well as inevitable changes to a site’s environment and security policy requirements.

Most apps are just fine downloading through apt-get or yum and installing the latest binary version built for your flavour of Linux, but Wine isn’t one of those in the list for me. I suggest compiling Wine from source for everything you need, because the old version available in your package manager is probably old and you’re going to run into problems where the next step is to patch wine to get the latest version anyway, so just do it right now and be done with it.

Run Wubi, give it a password, and click “install”. The installation process from is fully automatic from here. The rest of the installation files will be downloaded and confirmed, after which you’ll get the standard windows wants to reboot. Do so and select Ubuntu at the boot screen. The installation will continue for another few minutes depending on how old your machine is and will reboot once again. Choose Ubuntu at the boot screen again and enjoy.

First it was the three red rings of death. I had to wait forever for them to ship my console back to me! And now my Xbox 360 console won’t play games anymore from disc. Fallout, Crackdown, Orange Box, and COD world at war, I tried them all and none of them will play. I can get on Xbox live and play Castle Crashers just fine, but any attempt to play a game from CD and it acts like the disc is all scratched up.

If you want to store a mix of encrypted and unencrypted files under the same area, choose plaintext passthrough, otherwise choose the default, no. I suggest an all or nothing approach, as it can get confusing as to which files are encrypted especially when they’re binary! (With ascii text files you can just cat a file and tell if it’s encrypted or not.)