From the latest issue of Crypto-Gram Seattle police needed a DNA sample from a suspect. So they mailed him a letter, and tricked him into mailing a reply back in an envelope he licked. There was enough DNA there to link him to the crime. http://www.cnn.com/2003/LAW/05/21/old.murder.ap/index.html
Today’s race rocked. Loads of incidents thought the race. Kimi is really a world class driver. Coz of his goof up yesterday, he started last, came upto 5th position, then his type blew, got back at the end and managed to finish at 6th place towards the end. ravi, did you manage to catch it ? And when was the last time we saw all the 1st 4 cars together at the checkered flag 🙂
I finally caught the movie on the big screen yesterday ( after watching it twice on a crappy VCD) . Thanks to rashmiprasad, I managed to get tickets for the 1st day. The more I see the movie, the more I seem to like it. Though the 1st half of the movie, could have been better, the story line is just brilliant and it almost lives up to the first part. I just cant wait to see Revolutions. One thing I really like about the movie is its relation to Geekdom and Religion. I know religion is a sensitive topic…
I am dead hungry and my stomach is too full to take anything in. Chicken and egg ?
This week has been one of the most hectic one in recent months. I have written more lines of code this week, then what I have in the past 4 – 5 months. I am trying to make sure, the UI issues in my work don’t bother me ( I’m really sick of making things look pretty, and spend very little time on actual core development ). Well anyway I think I will get to try out some really cool things in the coming week, from xmldb’s to high performance process. There was a Pooja today at the new office…
There is a new vulnerability in OpenSSH, which lets anyone override the IP restrictions on the sshd server. So if you have a server running with IP Based restriction, then you might wanna fix this issue right away. More info in this CERT Report. This does not surprise me too much though. I really havent heard of too many products which actually take care of this issue. I have seen people fuck with Apache ACL’s using this. ( i.e If you have control of your name server, you can make the reverse lookup turn up as anything… so in your…
From khorgath‘s upcoming book “Google Pagerank for Dummies”, his wisdom in 3 easy steps. 1. Visit kasia‘s or jzawodn‘s blog, and leave a comment. 2. Get jace to photograph you 3. Write a Linux fundamentals tutorial LOL
Finally it rained. The smell of wet soil.. the cold breeze… nirvana. (well almost) Today I managed to leave my car keys inside and lock myself out. I tried to unlock the door, using the usual ‘sliding the metal rule’ trick. However it did not work :(. After some running around, one of the watchman nearby managed to push inside (though the door crack) a thin metal wire and used that to remove the door lock. I was amazed by how easy it is to break into cars… and there are so many freaking ways. Managed to catch today’s F1…
“With great power comes great Responsibility” – need to print this on my shirt