kill-9.it^2.5

(A post every 10 months. I hope that does not annoy you :) It will not take long to read, anyway. ) Transmission is a great BitTorrent client. It is full of features (look at the site!), including bandwidth control, and runs on every platform (Linux and Mac :P). You can choose global upload and [...]

By now I think everybody has heard of the unsuccessful [terrorist?] attack to Northwestern Flight 253, where Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab tried to mix bomb components about one hour before the plane landed. We’re so used to the restrictions applied to passengers of flights, that we almost think of them as routine, while we should [...]

So, who am I supposed to trust? (it turns out that Husdawg LLC is a perfectly “legal” ActiveX provider, but Intel does not mention them anywhere — just hoping people will click through?)

At first I did not notice, but emptying the trash took ages, even “not securely”. Well, being the geek I am I did a quick dtruss on the Locum process, which spit out a huge list of write_nocancel syscalls. So, it seems it was actually writing stuff over the files I asked him to delete, [...]

beepbeep:~ zen$ date Tue Oct 20 19:34:42 CEST 2009 beepbeep:~ zen$ host www.flickr.com www.flickr.com is an alias for www.flickr.vip.mud.yahoo.com. www.flickr.vip.mud.yahoo.com has address 68.142.214.24 www.flickr.vip.mud.yahoo.com mail is handled by 0 . beepbeep:~ zen$ telnet www.flickr.com 80 Trying 68.142.214.24… telnet: connect to address 68.142.214.24: Connection refused telnet: Unable to connect to remote host weird. The very same [...]