Heroes sometimes begat new heroes, and in the process remind you why you chose them. Musical influences are recursion at its best ( Read more... )

While reading a book before turning my voracious 12-year-old onto a new author, I found a place where my favorite author quoted my favorite movie character. Gotta love it, but more about that later ( Read more... )

I love cats and dogs. I used to live above 5000 ft. Now, my pets are a lot of work. Paradise lost, indeed ( Read more... )

I caught a bottle of wine tonight. Not a full one, but not an empty one, either ( Read more... )

warning: long post.

Did my own digging, was an IRC bot, and thankfully Snort does block some of its traffic under the ET ruleset.

My host software config is:

• centos 5.2
• webserver nginx 1.08 (stock el5 build)
• php 5.3.2 (compiled myself)

The infection vector was phpMyAdmin-3.3.3-english.  If I logged into that, my php-fpm instances slowed down to a crawl, ( Read more... )

Social coding (ala github) is going to fail.  It will die a horrible, spasmodic death due to non-additive divergence.

Why, you ask.  Or, if you are one of the hubbub, you point to the large amount of projects and forks as evidence that I am flat wrong.

Where you are seeing a large diversity of projects, I see a large divergence from good architecture ( Read more... )