Not often I get to do this, but this morning I managed to help another website owner rid the Net of one more drive-by browser attack. A friend of mine sent to me and 6 other people an email containing only a link (…and she used my super-secret personal email address to do it, nudge-nudge). …
Category Archives: Technology
Past TI 99/4A, Present Foray
My current project is one of steep learning curves, long memories, and hours of waiting and iterations. Back in high school, I had a TI 99/4A personal computer. We were too poor for the disk drive modules, so I had to store my programs on cassette tapes. I spent a lot of my time working …
C Is for ANSI, That’s Good Enough for Me
In a bid to expiate myself, I’m currently reading “The C Programming Language, Second Edition.” Written by Brian Kernighan and Dennis Richie, the inventors of the language, this book is the bible when it comes to learning the language. Most modern languages owe their existence to this one. All modern operating systems are primarily written …
This Will ROT13 Your Brain
ROT13 is an encryption cipher belonging to a class called Caesar Ciphers in which each letter in the source message is exchanged with the letter X number of letters away in the alphabet. It has become a technical shorthand for using the Caesar Cipher with a distance of 13. For instance: source: “A man, a …
Mushroom, Cloud
There once was a DARPA defense project to create a decentralized communications network that had very few points of weakness and therefore could survive a nuclear attack. ARPAnet. Academia joined on. The network grew, proved it was functional. Project a success, network renamed The Internet, as in “a network of networks”. All was well. Electronic …