Well, it is the day before. The day of, actually. As I write this it is 1:55 p.m. and I am about to go join Susan at Jason Ormes’s house. I took the big step and installed Redhat 6.1 yesterday. It was a disappointment though. I can’t believe it let me down. It is not running right, taking…
Archives for 1999
Tech-Infancy
I am going to be all over Windows 2K when it comes out, and from this point on I am going to take extreme notice of anything networking oriented at work. I am going to configure my home computer with WIN 2K and help to do all the computers at work with it too. I am going to…
CSRF is Wicked
I’ve been studying web security again recently and decided to do a POC of CSRF (Sea Surf) (Cross Site Request Forgery). It’s been done/covered many times before but is worth discussing given how few know about the issue. The link below is a page on my website that logs you out of dslreports.com (my favorite security forum) without…
Is Pre Big-Bang Agnosticism a Belief?
Within the context of this thread I’ve been having a conversation with a friend about whether atheism and agnosticism is a belief. First off, let’s synchronize. If one were to claim that nowhere, anywhere in the universe, is there anything that could be construed as a god, that would be a belief. So, yes, I would agree that…
The Best Argument I’ve Ever Heard For Why Someone Believes in God
A new friend and I had an extraordinarily productive and meaningful discussion about religion last night. This is noteworthy because he is a devout Mormon while I am an atheist. What impressed me most was the fact that everything was handled from the foundation of science and logic (he’s a PhD candidate in Computer Science). The debate was…
A New Beginning
Life has simply never been better, and it is only getting better- which makes the first part of the sentence true. My confidence In myself and my thoughts of invincibility have returned to some degree due to my being in school and getting the things that I wanted from the VA. Then to top it off I have…
Uni
Well, this was, without a doubt, the best summer (and best overall period) of my life. The extreme problems alluded to in my previous entry continued until I got in school… (snip)