Sunday, November 18, 2007
Saturday, November 17, 2007
Thursday, November 15, 2007
font
Droid Sans Mono great coding font: "of particular interest for developers is the Droid Sans Mono font that looks great in Visual Studio not only at my favourite 10 point..."
This is a great coding font, and it looks good on Textmate.
Saturday, November 10, 2007
More on spaces
Tuesday, November 06, 2007
Monday, November 05, 2007
Operating Systems
Vista
Leopard
Gutsy
Perhaps its because none of these operating systems brought forth a revolutionary change to offset the discomfort of moving from your older OS.
From a users perspective the most useful Leopard feature for me was Spaces. On Linux I use Windowmaker as my window manager which has had virtual work spaces for years. And yet Leopard still didn't get it right. Of course there is technical goodness (dtrace), but their is also badness (java6). If only that was it. Now leopard causes major data loss!
I've been lazy about upgrading to gutsy so I am not really sure if their are real problems there. I hope not.
Maybe I should try switching to this. All I need to do is find a laptop that will run it well. Its a new release like the operating systems mentioned above, and I haven't heard anything bad about it yet! :)
IDA Pro Disassembler and Debugger
IDA Pro Disassembler and Debugger: "IDA Pro has released v4.9 as freeware. Get your copy HERE. It is by far the best disassembler out there for the windows platform. I HIGHLY recommend using it."
(Via Planet Sysadmin.)
This is a really useful tool for debugging (and other stuff).
Saturday, November 03, 2007
Skype on leopard
I downloaded a beta version of skype from here, and it seems to work fine for me.
Update: Skype beta is not working for me too.
Thursday, November 01, 2007
Investigating the Leopard Firewall | securosis.com
Investigating the Leopard Firewall | securosis.com: "I feel like I'm missing something, but I think that's it. In short, block mode seems to block inbound connections but ports show as open/filtered. Stealth mode works, partially, but some ports still show on a port scan no matter what (like Kerberos). Bonjour is ALWAYS accessible, unless you're in stealth mode. Application ('Set access') mode is a mess- code signing breaks applications, and the behavior is inconsistent. Any launched services are authorized and you can't change the settings in the firewall GUI.
The good news is that ipfw is still enabled and you can manually configure it or use a GUI like WaterRoof."
(Via Matasano Chargen.)
On my firewall in leopard I have "Set access for specific services and applications" selected. The only service I want available is SSH. Running nmap from another machine, I get:
adnan@adnan-desktop:~$ nmap 192.168.xxx.xxx
Starting Nmap 4.20 ( http://insecure.org ) at 2007-11-01 22:08 CDT
Note: Host seems down. If it is really up, but blocking our ping probes, try -P0
Nmap finished: 1 IP address (0 hosts up) scanned in 4.044 seconds
With the -P0 flag:
adnan@adnan-desktop:~$ nmap 192.168.xxx.xxx -P0
Starting Nmap 4.20 ( http://insecure.org ) at 2007-11-01 22:09 CDT
Interesting ports on 192.168.xxx.xxx:
Not shown: 1696 filtered ports
PORT STATE SERVICE
22/tcp open ssh
Nmap finished: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 31.862 seconds
Looks good to me.
Update: Ouch!
Nick left an interesting comment. I'm not sure whats going on here yet. But definitely not nice!
techmeme
Update: I don't like blogrunner. Its too cluttered. I love techmeme, wonderful interface.
Scoble and the CEOs
Scoble catchs CEO of myspace and google!
via Dave Winer
Update: For some reason I can get the right embed video again. If you look at the video their is a way to move back in the video, an arrow on the video.
Mozilla and hypocrisy
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