http://www.deadbeefcafe.org Computer Security, Geek Stuff, and Food Fri, 29 Aug 2008 04:53:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I tend to leave my chats signed in, just throw up a 'not here now' sort of message. Or just walk away from the computer and forget about them. Sometimes, this leads to amusing things. Recently, I've been getting hit with tons of one-line spammers telling me to ... http://www.deadbeefcafe.org/archives/71 RSA, as many of you may have heard in other blogs was a silly rehash of vague promises of 'securing your enterprise' and 'vertical security' without anyone actually being willing to put on their material what their products did and didn't do. I don't like it when I look ... http://www.deadbeefcafe.org/archives/68 I was perusing some job descriptions recently, and ran across the interesting phrase "robust programming". The manner in which it was in the job description seemed to indicate that it was likely more than my immediate thought on the topic. Robust meaning that it has a quality of being sturdy ... http://www.deadbeefcafe.org/archives/66 I recently had a party for a bunch of friends, and while I like pasta salads they have in the past gone largely untouched. This makes me sad, so I decided to throw together a different kind of pasta salad, thinking that possibly that was the problem. (Not ... http://www.deadbeefcafe.org/archives/67 A couple days ago my officemate had a computer blow up. The typical "oh I smell the ozone" sort of power supply death syndrome. No big deal, he's a good computer guy, yank the hard drives out, throw them into external enclosures, and bring them up on another ... http://www.deadbeefcafe.org/archives/64