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PayPal ups the security

Posted on February 22, 2008 by Timothy Foreman

PayPal is now (maybe has been for a while?) offering a Two-Factor authentication token for only $5.00! For only $5.00, why would you not want one of these? It a...

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Hard Disk Encryption Hack

Posted on February 21, 2008 by Timothy Foreman

Wow. From BoingBoing comes this beautiful hack against hard disk encryption: Full details at BoingBoing. And make sure you go read the analysis at News.com.

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Clan {ib}

Posted on February 20, 2008 by Timothy Foreman

For fun I convinced most of the coworkers that play TF2 to put an “{ib}” clan tag on their TF2 player name. (So my name is “{ib}Timmay!”...

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Email Headers

Posted on February 15, 2008 by Timothy Foreman

As an email administrator, when there is a problem the first thing I usually ask for is the email headers. Unfortunately, many email clients hide the headers an...

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Team Fortress 2

Posted on February 11, 2008 by Timothy Foreman

Man Team Fortress 2 is fun. A co-worker picked up a copy of TF2 for me on Black Friday and man am I glad he did. This game is too much fun. My favorite server t...

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Outage Details

Posted on February 10, 2008 by Timothy Foreman

I don’t know if anyone noticed, but my server (and this site and a few others) were down from sometime on Saturday until Sunday around Noon. I had multipl...

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Build a Laser Cutter for $50

Posted on January 2, 2008 by Timothy Foreman

This is a cool instructables page on how to build a laser cutter for $50! I think I might need to make one of these. Too bad I gave away my old plotter a while ...

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LOLCode

Posted on October 29, 2007 by Timothy Foreman

This is too funny. People are turning the LOLCat speak into programming languages. It’s awesome. Am I a huge nerd? I think the fact that the code snippets...

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Encrypted IM

Posted on October 24, 2007 by Timothy Foreman

Today Nate turned me on to Off-The-Record Messaging. It’s a plugin for encrypting IM traffic. They have a proxy server version (that’s still beta I ...

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I got hacked

Posted on June 19, 2007 by Timothy Foreman

It would appear that some nasty hackers found a hole in one of my web applications on Fathers Day. The first indication of trouble was that my SSH connections s...