Blog Archive » September 2008

Poor Man's Keylogger

September 29, 2008

Here's a simple way to monitor web requests on your NAT/firewall server: tcpdump - A - s 0 port 80 2 >& 1 >> / tmp / 80 . out & And then for a little color: apt - get install ccze tail - f / tmp / 80 . out | ccze - A

Dear Will Wright, Spore is a huge disappointment

September 11, 2008

Dear EA Games/Maxis/Will Wright, Please explain to me why I can't more easily share Spore with my wife and children? Why can't I install Spore on their personal computers? Why am I limited to three installs? You have made zero accommodations for families with multiple computers. Understand I'm not asking you to let all of us play at the same time on the same licens...

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God Hates Racists.. Obama '08

September 10, 2008

I made this for some "friends" that I discovered were racists. Then I realized there were probably many more who needed to see it as well. digg_url = 'http://digg.com/political_opinion/God_Hates_Racists_Obama_08';

Spore Buyer's Remorse

September 9, 2008

I bought Spore on release day, the "Galactic Edition" no less. I can't begin to describe to you how unimpressed I am. That's $80, down the drain. The game is incredibly simplistic compared to all the hype I've heard/read the past couple of years. It's not challenging at all. You're done with stage one in about 20 minutes. Stage two is about an hour, stage 3 is a couple of...

Build the latest Emacs on Mac OS X Leopard

Updated: September 8, 2008November 10, 2007

I use MacPorts . So first I install some dependencies Emacs will build against: port install ncurses texinfo That takes a few minutes. Next, get the latest Emacs from CVS: cd cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.savannah.gnu.org:/sources/emacs co emacs cd emacs Next, configure the build: For a console version: ./configure --without-carbon...