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The Ümlaut

I am creating this page about the ümlaut because every single time I attempt to write the word "über" I need to go and find one. Well, no more. From now on I'll come here.

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97 (hex)
151 (dec)

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9A (hex)
154 (dec)

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• A tcpdump Tutorial
• Tech Hiring Lessons Learned
• A lsof Introduction
• A git Primer
• A Security-focused HTTP Primer
• Vulnerability Assessment vs. Penetration Test
• WebAppSec Testing Resources
• Infosec Interview Questions

Popular

• What You Learned in School About Airplane Flight Was Probably Wrong
• 10 Things Everyone Should Know About the Middle East
• The find Command
• The lsof Command
• Security and Obscurity Revisited

Information Security / Technology

• My Preferred Definition of Information Security
• The Diffie-Hellman Protocol
• Differences in SYN Packets
• The Birthday Attack Explained
• Mac vs. PC Security in One Sentence
• A UNIX/Linux Permissions Refresher
• Cross Site Scripting Explained
• A tar Reference
• A Security/Obscurity Experiment
• Expect More Human-Based Infosec Attacks
• CISSPs Do Need to be Technical
• The Under-appreciated Danger of Password Reset Mechanisms
• Encoding vs. Encryption
• An lsof Tutorial
• The Nmap/Dshield Trick
• Using Splunk as a Syslog Server
• Thinking Through Subnetting
• Explaining Network Ports

Politics

• Free Will and Determinism as the Core of Political Disagreement
• Conservatives are Leave it to Beaver, Liberals are Star Trek
• Socialism and Anarchy
• On CFR/NWO Conspiracies
• The Worst Mistake People Make in Political Arguments
• How to Debate an Idiot

Philosophy & Religion

• An Atheist Debate Reference
• Meaning is an Illusion
• The Best Response to "Atheists are arrogant".
• The Only Class That Matters
• Free Will: Absolute vs. Practical
• A Simplified Argument Against Free Will
• Happiness: Creation vs. Collection
• Want: A Disease Based in Low Self-Esteem
• How to See If Your Morality Comes from God
• Outrageous Beliefs Are Not Equal to Claims They Are False
• Was the Last Time Your Last?
• How I Became an Atheist
• A Letter to Religious Moderates
• Philosophy, Science, and Religion: Three Ways of Learning About the World

Technology & Science

• Building a Lifestream Interface
• Thoughts on the Future of the IT Field
• The Steam, Water, and Ice of Modern Communications
• Social Media as a Personal API
• Could You Prove Evolution?
• How to Pronounce "Linux"
• My Only Shot at Immortality
• How to Pronounce "Ubuntu"
• Does Acceleration Depend More on Horsepower or Torque?
• The Craziest Thing You'll Ever Learn about Pi
• How to Pronounce "OS X"
• How to Pronounce "Rijndael"

Culture & Society

• Lifecasting and Society
• Please Submit Your Own Content to Social Media Sites
• The Bimbo and the Caveman
• Is it Wrong to Have Children?
• The Quality Of a Society
• Socialism and Anarchy

Miscellaneous

• A Coffee Primer

• RSS Feed
• @danielmiessler on Twitter
• Facebook Profile
• Search with Google

Arguments

• Evolution is True
• Free Will: Two-lever Argument
• more...

Projects

• Content Extraction
• Ideas
• Vocabulary
• An Atheist Debate Reference
• Concepts
• more...

Collections

• Quotes
• Jokes
• Grammar
• Movies

Twitter

• "My first wife died of mushroom poisoning. My second wife died of a concussion. She wouldn't eat her mushrooms."
• Source2URL: Parse Source Code Directory, Send URLs Through Proxy | http://t.co/Se7cWxNP #websec #infosec
• The 5 Why's Method of Discovering Root Causes | Harvard Business Review http://t.co/mGcbdL0L #productivity
• A List of Source Code Analyzers | http://t.co/67YbEDJo #nist #appsec
• Change your Google Ad settings | http://t.co/EJaZWOfX #weird
• ZOMG Security Onion: An über-powerful NSM Linux distro. Yeah, installing now. | http://t.co/pohKMY3b #infosec

What I'm Reading

• The Quotable Hitchens
• Game of Thrones: Book 2
• How the Mind Works
• Class: A Guide Through the American Status System
• Web Application Hacker's Handbook, Second Edition
• Arguably (Christopher Hitchens)
• Lord of the Flies
• Lying (Sam Harris)

Favorite Books and Essays

• The Ethics of Belief, William Clifford
• The America the Banana Republic
• Why The Future Doesn't Need Us, Bill Joy
• What I Believe, Bertrand Russell
• The Moral Landscape, Sam Harris
• God is Not Great, Christopher Hitchens
• 1984, George Orwell

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• Politics
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• Information Security
• Philosophy
• Humor
• Religion
• Programming
• System Administration
• Education
• Culture
• Atheism
• Music
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• Geek
• Health
• Apple

Inputs

• Overcoming Bias
• The Last Psychiatrist
• The Big Questions
• Less Wrong
• Arts & Letters Daily
• Scott Adams
• Gene Expression
• AZSpot
• NPR's Intelligence²
• Philosophy, et cetera
• Meteuphoric
• Roissy in DC
• Freakonomics Blog
• Will Wilkinson
• The Rational Optimist
• Cosmic Variance
• Practical Ethics
• Barking Up the Wrong Tree

• Reddit*
• Hacker News
• Arts & Letters Daily

 

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