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Please note that I am changing the look and structure of the site. As with any overhaul, please expect some downtime and broken links. I hope to have this process complete no later than 31 October 2008.

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Divisibility Rules

Posted November 10, 2008  •  Comments (No Comments)  • 

Some handy rules for division. Handy when trying doing factorization!
From Dr. Math:

2 If the last digit is even, the number is divisible by 2.
3 If the sum of the digits is divisible by 3, the number
is also.
4 [...]

Dumb *nix tricks

Posted November 5, 2008  •  Comments (No Comments)  • 

Here are some interesting tools that you can’t live without!

screen - too useful, run apps in a virtual console which you can attach, deattach and share

NAME
screen - screen manager with VT100/ANSI terminal emulation
SYNOPSIS
screen [ -options ] [ cmd [ args ] [...]

Upgrade from Ubuntu 8.04 to 8.10

Posted September 28, 2008  •  Comments (No Comments)  • 

Simply open up a terminal window and enter:
sudo update-manager -d -c
Then click “Upgrade” at the top.
Reboot and enjoy!
Author’s Note: This solved my Intel i965GM issues.

Things You Learn In College

Posted September 3, 2008  •  Comments (No Comments)  • 

So I’m sitting in Enterprise Security twiddling my thumbs when the professor offers a lecture in Stego. The form he is discussing is using the useless bits of a random image (least significant bit) to encode a message. So it got me thinking…
What if a botnet used this theory at the packet level? We have [...]

Why Chrome Wins

Posted September 2, 2008  •  Comments (No Comments)  • 

Google is coming out with their own browser, Chrome, which will be open source and should smash every other browser in existance.
Get it here sometime Sept 2nd.
Chrome is the first browser that I know of to build a browser with a test driven process. They use their massive repository of cached results to test the [...]