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My current list of aborted projects:

Hack Check disk
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Binary data from a MySQL database pulled by PHP

I have programmers ADD.

Note to self: “yellow tag” is another phrase for “Post-It note”, at least to the English-challenged in my office.

Things are finally falling into place:

I have sucessfully signed up for electricity, cable, phone and DSL for my new apartment. Ameritech, once again, is a bunch of asshats. A simple activation took an hour longer than expected. Let’s hope their current special (DSL for $29.95/month, no install/activation fee) makes up for their asshattery.

Another tool for my Hack Recovery Disk: Busybox, a single executable that replicates much of the functionality of many GNU utilities.

A new project I would like to work on:

A simple BSD or Linux boot disk that contains a few utilities for testing for a hacked box. Initially, the system administrator would boot off this floppy and run the initialization utilitity. It would take an MD5 hash of all the files in specific directories (such as /etc, /bin, /sbin and /usr/bin) and store the results in a text file. Later on, the system administrator could boot off this floppy again and run the comparison utility. It would take another MD5 hash of all the files and compare the results.

Doing this in BSD would be easier for me because I have access to many BSD machines. Doing it in Linux would make it much more widely supported. Can the stock Linux kernel mount FFS file systems? I know OpenBSD can mount Ext2 file systems. Red Hat now uses Ext3 by default, so it would only work with older RH systems. Hopefully I will be able to create a boot disk that would work with most any unix system.

This project could also use Tripwire or a pre-made system disk. Or maybe I will just do it all from scratch just to be a jerk.

Wow, I’ll be damned. You know how I said there were two main singers for that crappy opening band, Cuda? Well, turns out, the guy with the better voice is Gar Wood from the Hot Snakes. I just thought the regular bassist was taking some time off, so the guy from the Cudas joined them. It’s completely the other way around. No wonder I was so confused, and no wonder there was such conflict, and no wonder his voice is that much better.

Ahh, for the want of broadband at home: Hot Snakes live shows, slick Music Videos.

You know what sucks about 60 gig drives? Defragging.

Facts about poop. If you work in an office environment, skip directly to the section on pooping at work. It is so true, especially the SAFE HAVEN.

Can’t view thumbnails in Windows 2000? Broken images? Happened to me, just need to hack the registry.