I never managed to figure it out, except that something was going crazy during the ipmasq being performed by the wireless access point. To get around it, I eventually tunnelled around it with ssh, as described here. The link he gives for the tinyproxy script isn't very good, go back to the original mailing list message for it.

Well, I picked up Zeitgeist in Hokkaido. The Japan bonus track is "Death from Above" ( B-Side from "Tarantula ( Read more... )

"I am staggered that some American newspapers have decided to publish purported spoilers in the form of reviews in complete disregard of the wishes of literally millions of readers, particularly children, who wanted to reach Harry's final destination by themselves, in their own time."-- J.K. Rowling

"What do you get with freedom? Excesses? ( Read more... )

While outdated now, this was still a groundbreaking work of cultural ethnography for it's time. I own a very old hardback copy of it - it has Sir Frazer's obituary clipped from the Times of London sandwiched in it's backplate.

Good news! You don't have to pay a pile of money for it because it's all up on Wikisource!

Well, it's my last day at work today. I have no internet at home, so this will probably be the last post I make for a while, at least this month. So, that said,


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I played in a seven way ¥2000 hold-em limit / no-limit tournament on Sunday night. It was frustrating ( Read more... )

I have just started playing the first wargame on pulltheplug, Vortex, and I'm going to whinge. The problem description for level 0 is:Your goal is to connect to port 5842 on vortex.labs.pulltheplug.org and read in 4 unsigned integers. Add these integers together and send back the results to get a username and password for level 1. Note that vortex ( Read more... )

So, Phrack 64 was generally a disappointment - it's been poorly edited, a lot of the content is nonsense about Astral Traveling and how you can smash the state, man! revolutttionnn! on Youtube. However, there was a great article in there by Neil Archibald on XNU/OSX vulnerabilities ( file 0x0b ). Very interesting ( Read more... )

Apple, I don't understand the function prolog as documented in the IA32 Calling Conventions ABI Reference Document.

1. Pushes the value of the stack frame pointer (EBP) onto the stack.
2. Sets the stack frame pointer to the value of the stack pointer (ESP).
3. Pushes the values of the registers that must be preserved (EDI, ESI, and EBX) onto the stack.
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I climbed it yesterday with Cassie. It was probably the hardest thing I have ever done ( Read more... )