Category Archives: General

Securing WordPress Sites

Posted on 2012-10-10 by jcs

This is another in my series of posts about keeping my blog (and yours) free from malware. Victor Granic over at switchwp has an excellent and reasonably comprehensive post on securing WordPress sites. I came across his post via Sacha … Continue reading →

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Editing A Column of Numbers

Posted on 2012-10-08 by jcs

Alex Schroeder has an interesting post on editing a column of numbers. The problem is that given some text such as |[[…]] | 1 | 6563| 3796| |[[…]] | — | |[[…]] | 1/3 | 2315| 1259| |[[…]] | — … Continue reading →

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Computer Attacks in Real Time

Posted on 2012-10-06 by jcs

BetaBeat has a fascinating article (via The Atlantic Wire) on a Honey Pot project that allows you to watch attacks as they happen. Every time there’s an attack, a red dot explodes on a world map at the source of … Continue reading →

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NIST Announces SHA-3

Posted on 2012-10-05 by jcs

NIST just announced the winner of the SHA-3 competition: it’s Keccak. The Keccak hash uses a completely different strategy from the SHA-2 family, something that most analysts view as an advantage. It’s not clear how quickly Keccak will be integrated … Continue reading →

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Stop!

Posted on 2012-10-03 by jcs

Please. Stop. This. I’ve asked, nicely, previously. Now I’m getting annoyed. I’ve said it before: If you want Python, you know where to get it.

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An Analysis of PIN Numbers

Posted on 2012-10-02 by jcs

Over at Data Genetics there’s a great analysis of PIN numbers. By aggregating data from several breaches Nick Berry gathered 3.4 million PIN numbers and performed extensive analysis on them. Every possible value was represented in the sample but they … Continue reading →

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Editing The Occur Buffer

Posted on 2012-10-01 by jcs

Here’s a great Emacs 24 tip from Xah Lee’s Google+ ErgoEmacs circle. If you’re in an Emacs occur buffer you can call 【Meta+x】 occur-edit-mode and then make changes to the occur buffer that will be reflected in the original file. … Continue reading →

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Apple Maps

Posted on 2012-09-30 by jcs

Much has been written lately about Apple abandoning Google maps in favor of their own in iOS 6. There are, it seems to me, two aspects to the change and the imbroglio that followed. The first is why Apple decided … Continue reading →

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A wgrep Demonstration

Posted on 2012-09-29 by jcs

Xah Lee has a post recommending wgrep, an Emacs extension that allows you to edit the results of grep and have the results reflected in the original file(s). This is good stuff. Although he didn’t write wgrep, Magnar Sveen demonstrates … Continue reading →

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Getting Started with Common Lisp on OS X

Posted on 2012-09-28 by jcs

I was reading Nikodemus Siivola’s excellent Common Lisp FAQ and came across a reference to Jonathan Fischer’s guide to getting started with Common Lisp on OS X. If you’re an Machead who’s wanting to get started with CL, these instructions … Continue reading →

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