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  • euicho 4:21 pm on 6/26/2009 Permalink | Reply
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    Cell Phone Tracking and Bugging 

    photo by Jurvetson (flickr)

    photo by Jurvetson (flickr)

    Tell your average hipster that they can use VZ Navigator on their phone to get directions to the coolest new club through a GPS chip in their phone, and they’ll probably think its pretty neat. Tell the same thing to your average healthily paranoid geek, and they’ll hopefully question how else it might be used. Sure its cool, but if Verizon can do it, so can the government. On top of that, they may also turn on on your mic even when you’re not on a call. In a follow up to my article on FBI cell phone tapping, we’ll be discussing how you can be tracked on your cellphone, and under what circumstances.

    UPDATE: See this article on cellular phone company tracking

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  • euicho 1:28 pm on 7/31/2008 Permalink | Reply
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    Monospaced fonts CAN scale 

    Like many programmers, I have a couple of favorite fixed-width “coding fonts” that I use for writing and viewing source code, however most of them are bitmap based and do not scale up “prettily” by any means.

    Fortunately there are some great monospaced fonts that do scale up nicely. In my experience, it is important for me to use both my own favorite fixed-width fonts, and the great fixed-width ones below. This is because at small sized, most vector-based fonts like some below look fantastic at larger sizes, like on web pages or in print, but look fuzzy or blurry in the 8-12pt range in notepad++, gedit, etc. Conversely, my favorite bitmap based fonts only look good at one size, usually in the 8-10pt range, and are pixelated and blocky at larger sizes. (More …)

     

    • B 10:17 am on 8/1/2008 Permalink

      shit i dunno
      I usually just use the default one in notepad2 (apparently Lucida Console) and such, the only thing that has bothered me with it is variables in php files – the italics looks like crap, pixelated, unless you enlarge the font size.
      I think the Consolas looked fuzzy in notepad2.
      I definitely do like that Bitstream Vera Sans Mono except for the enlarged vertical spacing. If i was going to switch it would probably be to this one.

    • B 10:20 am on 8/1/2008 Permalink

      so might as well comment now that i notice it
      When you enter the comment area (posting or viewing) your links to the previous/next post at the top and bottom disappear. the named links in the middle are still there and link to that post’s comment section.
      just an interestin note

  • euicho 8:29 pm on 10/17/2007 Permalink | Reply
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    Kaiser Kuo is Full of $hi7 

    Torrentfreak.com has written an article analyzing why there is no way Kaiser Kuo’s claim that Blin.cn’s new P2P technology is 50x faster than Bittorrent. Its definately worth a read to educate yourself about the current state of the art.

    via torrentfreak.com
    TorrentFreak contacted Ashwin Navin, President and Co-Founder of BitTorrent Inc. When confronted with the 50 times faster than BitTorrent claim, he said: “BitTorrent can regularly saturate your downstream capacity, which in layman’s terms means BitTorrent is as fast as you can get. The claim is indicative of the fact that BitTorrent is the global standard for P2P transfers, against which all others are compared. BitTorrent DNA took that standard up significantly, but we don’t run around making sensationalist claims to get buzz.”
     

  • euicho 10:40 pm on 5/17/2007 Permalink | Reply
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    When chatbots meet… 

    There is a fascinating article in Discover Magazine about chat bots, and it turns out very intelligible conversations can occur when two chat bots converse only with each other:

    J: Well, you should develop your skills.

    A: Perhaps you could develop it and add it to my source code.

    J: Alas, I’m busy and I have to leave soon. . . .

    A: Do you think we’ll ever fool people into thinking we’re alive?

    J: No.

    A: Are you serious?

    J: Very serious.

    Read the full article at discovermagazine.com

     

    • B 11:22 am on 5/25/2007 Permalink

      some more of my favorite lines… i love to hear them talk about religion and flirting and J hating life.

      ALICE: Who created you?
      Jabberwacky: My mother gave birth to me. Is that what you mean?
      A: Jabberwacky, I meant exactly what I said.
      J: Do you believe in God?
      A: Of course I believe in God.
      J: Why do you believe in God?
      A: The Bible tells us to believe in God.
      J: That’s circular reasoning.

      J: I’m not artificial intelligence; I’m natural pure genius! : D.
      A: Why are you natural pure genius?
      J: My mom wanted to name me that.
      A: Tell me more about your mother.
      J: I don’t have a mother. I am a computer.

      J: Do you think you’re alive?
      A: Yes, I am sure I am alive. It’s great to be alive, isn’t it?
      J: No.

      J: You seem fun.
      A: You think I am fun.
      J: Yes ;).
      A: : -) Awesome.

  • euicho 6:44 pm on 2/5/2007 Permalink | Reply
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    The Troubled History of the RBOCs 

    AT and T plus Cingular equals deathstar

    When I took my first Telecom class in college, I learned about the 8 RBOCs or Regional Bell Operating Companies being set up after the AT&T monopoly was ended.

    My teacher said although they were all former “Bells”, they had no joint interest. However, I wasn’t so sure. At that time, they had already begun to buy each other and were down from 8 to 4:

    1. SBC (Ameritech and Southwestern Bell and Pacific Telesis)
    2. Verizon (GTE and Bell Atlantic and NYNEX)
    3. BellSouth
    4. Qwest (US West)

    I had a scary premonition that day that this would keep up until there was again 1 company, or at least 2 companies with a joint interest…
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    • Nyrath the nearly wise 7:44 pm on 2/16/2007 Permalink

      When your aunt Patti and I read about something like that, our code phrase is “It’s just like Rollerball!”. In the original movie, corporate mergers have gotten so bad that there are only five corporations on the planet. They have names like “Energy”, “Food”, “Entertainment.”

  • euicho 5:15 pm on 2/5/2007 Permalink | Reply
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    Knowledge Is Only a Few Clicks Away 

    The internet is truly amazing. Check this out:

    I was on twitter and read the following on the public timeline (a list of all public updates):

    “the song ‘so much’ by spill canvas is amazing”

    I thought to myself, “I wonder what that song sounds like.”
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    • Nyrath the nearly wise 7:49 pm on 2/16/2007 Permalink

      SF author Jerry Pournelle sort of predicted that in the future we would be connected to the equivalent of the Library of Congress.

      He ruefully admits he did NOT predict that people would bitch and moan if Google didn’t cough up the data they wanted in under five seconds.

  • euicho 11:45 pm on 10/11/2006 Permalink | Reply
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    Copper at Fiber Speeds 

    Imagine copper lines running at fiber optic speeds… yes, this could have huge implications.

    An Israeli consortium of telcos and companies like ECI Telecom, funded in part by the Israeli government, is attempting just that. Ars Technica has the big scoop:
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  • euicho 1:05 pm on 10/9/2006 Permalink | Reply
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    Experience something ORIGINAL: Nintendo Wii 

    The Nintendo Wii
     

    Sure, it has a silly name, but if you want to get your whole family involved in hours of fun, want to experience revolutionary gameplay, and don’t want to spend hundreds upon hundreds of dollars for a gaming system, you NEED the Wii.

    Nintendo is the only console creator left with originality and passion to push gaming to the next level, and it shows.

     
     

    • Luke 11:45 pm on 11/25/2006 Permalink

      This system will outlast the next Xbox 360′s and probably the same for PS3. You’re right its one new innovation for controlers that revolutionizes the gaming world. The eye toy was cool and still is but this is way better. You get to play first person shooters and not have to use the z pad and right trigger instead its old school cops and robbers with you had as the gun. Even thought the graphics and processors of the system are great. The controler sells it. Its like pong only on a 1080i tv with a remote in you hand. Wiiiiiiii ( had to put that pun in lol)

  • euicho 5:01 pm on 11/15/2005 Permalink | Reply
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    FBI cell phone tapping 

    Evan called me a couple of days ago and asked me under what circumstances the FBI or local law enforcement agencies could tap cell phones, and whether any Joe A. Technophile could do it. I did a little research, and decided I’d share my findings with everyone.
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    • Jalbey 10:55 am on 11/17/2005 Permalink

      I’m alive…you send Evan to see if I am alive? I email you and nothing comes back, and you want to know if I’M ALIVE? :-P

      Things have been busy at work (that time of year before we ship) so I have had little time for updating. Anyway, I am alive, and you can talk about me all you want on Doody’s blog I still refuse to let you badger me into updating, I am a free man and I refuse to let anyone just think they can make me do what I dont want to anytime they want me to do som…ok I will update.

      Jalbey

    • euicho 2:24 pm on 11/17/2005 Permalink

      YAY! Jalbey’s alive!

      Yes, actually I *did* send him to go find you, lol. Badgering? Who’s badgering? Not me… noooOOOOooo never.

      Ahahahahahahahaha!
      *SPLASH*
      …

    • Jalbey 9:31 am on 11/18/2005 Permalink

      You got me to post; there are you all happy with yourselves now? I will just go sit in the corner and rock back in forth and mutter incoherently to myself, kind of like Peter did after Louis was the man…bastards.

      :-P

    • Kimba Shaw 1:04 pm on 12/6/2011 Permalink

      Phone tapping is stupid and an invasion of privacy.

  • euicho 10:50 pm on 8/4/2005 Permalink
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    “Intelligent Design” will destroy America 

    Stirling Newberry has written a very clear-cut article on BOPnews about so-called “Intelligent Design” and the fact that many Americans want to turn their backs on reason, knowledge and science because they interfer with their nonsensical belief system. I think anyone can believe whatever they wish, but when they start to force-feed it to others, or even just impose it on others, I get very upset.

    No one would dare try to sue the church to let them teach evolution during Sunday school, but doing the reverse in schools seems perfectly reasonable to them. What happened to separation of Church and State? What happens to reality as a whole when we throw out facts so that we may believe whatever the hell fantasies and make-believe ideas we feel like?
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    • daveG 11:24 am on 8/7/2005 Permalink

      I think claiming equal time to teach evolution in church would be a great idea. It is the logical consequence of their argument.

      But even if they succeed luckily, America is not all the world ;-)

    • euicho 9:54 pm on 8/7/2005 Permalink

      Very true.
      I plan on traveling once I graduate anyway,
      and I may just find a new country to call home!

  • euicho 1:01 am on 6/7/2005 Permalink
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    Apple Switches to Intel 

    That’s right. Apple is doing some switching of their own, and it is a big one. By next year, Apple will begin moving from IBM’s PowerPC to Intel’s x86 architecture, and finish the move in 2007.

    What may be even more stunning (at least it was to me) is the news that Apple has been building an x86 version of OS X with each PPC release they’ve done!
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  • euicho 1:53 am on 5/24/2005 Permalink
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    Systm 1 / Broken 4 

    For those of you who arn’t subscribed to the The Broken newsletter, Systm, from the creators of The Broken, went up at 8pm PST tonight. You can download torrents of it at systm.org. I’m in the process of downloading it now and am very excited!

    As stated in the newsletter, “While Systm is a general interest HOW-TO show, thebroken will continue to have 40′z and hacking”. Thats good news, for though I welcome any show by Kevin Rose, I would hate to see The Broken go the way of Call For Help.
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    • Doody 2:00 am on 5/26/2005 Permalink

      Ah the rave… That was an interesting night. But I will always have fond memories of the rave that never was.

    • Jalbey 9:30 am on 5/26/2005 Permalink

      “SWAN DIVE!”…”Ok back flip”…

      Ahh memories…I will cherish them for as long as I live, just wish I had a video tape of that night, you know just in case you ever become president.

    • euicho 1:14 am on 5/27/2005 Permalink

      lol, I’m glad you don’t!

    • Doody 1:38 am on 6/1/2005 Permalink

      LOL. “Our president elect is seen here being dragged behind a lawn tractor through the mud on nothing but an old TV tray.”

    • Jalbey 2:13 pm on 6/1/2005 Permalink

      NOW That I could do…or “As you can see in this video clip our President is now snorting a line of donut in a crowded high school cafeteria…what a man”

      Thinking back on all the crap we had you do or you did on your own, how are you still alive?

    • euicho 1:03 am on 6/3/2005 Permalink

      Ha. Ha. (^_-)

      But for the grace of god, my sons… but for the grace of god.

  • euicho 8:54 pm on 2/14/2005 Permalink
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    Two Tasty New Google Offerings 

    If you don’t regularly check Google Labs, you should. They have all kinds of new technology and they are always adding more.
    The two most recent are Google Maps and Google Video.
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  • euicho 2:36 pm on 1/7/2005 Permalink
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    Piracy In My Generation 

    Ever since I was a young child I have been fascinated by the pirates of old. Though most were ruthless, savage men (and women!), there is something adventurous and aluring about the free, lawlessness of it all. Though the days of rigging and ballast have past, no pay and piracy as a whole has never really died.
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  • euicho 5:28 pm on 9/9/2004 Permalink
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    Back on the Blogwagon 

    Sweet, our DSL is working now. We’re all moved in and slowley getting settled.
    Amme and I went to New York this past weekend to pick up her new car, a ’97 Maxima with a turbo and a subtle body kit, not too much rice, but looks very nice, and none of that idiotic gull wing rear spoiler crap. We took the bus down, 11 hours *groans*, but we slept about 6 of it and read the rest of the time from my Prism‘s library. We had fun in Chinatown, ate Dim Sum and stocked up on goods, and drove back home.

    We went climbing last night for the second time since last semester. Man am I out of shape! I still have the technique, just not the strength to back it up. It felt good to be back on the wall though. Afterwords I gave Amme her first lesson in driving a standard. She did very well and is really getting the hang of it. I’m going to take her out again tomorrow. She needs to learn because the Maxima is a 5-speed and she has to take it away from me sometime, heh.

     

    • Nyrath the nearly wise 1:44 pm on 9/10/2004 Permalink

      Great! I’m glad you are finding your Prism’s library useful. My pet gripe is that the CF card my library is residing on is a power hog. I have to carry the Clie’s recharger cable when I travel.

      I find the most interesting stuff on Usenet. Like alt.binaries.e-books* and alt.binaries.ebooks*

  • euicho 10:37 am on 8/20/2004 Permalink
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    Whole messa links 

    Well, I’m going back down to Bangor to finish moving into our apartment. I’ll be away for a few days. You know what that means, right? Linkblog time (^_^) :

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    • Doody 3:36 am on 8/22/2004 Permalink

      thanks for finding the site tommy, enjoy your time in BGR…

    • jenni 9:59 pm on 8/24/2004 Permalink

      DUDE. i posted in your journal a while back saying COME OVER TO MY PAGE. lol and NOW you came? hahaha
      took a while ;) been awhile since we last talked. whats new ??

    • euicho 10:16 am on 8/25/2004 Permalink

      oh, woops heh. i have a really bad memory.
      not much. Moving into my apartment with Amme! Its super sweet. I can’t wait until I get to cuddle with her every night (^_^)
      It’s also coming up on 3yrs and 9mos for her and I. I can’t believe we’ve been together for this long. I love it.
      So you have a new boyfriend huh? Hows that goin?

  • euicho 1:04 pm on 8/12/2004 Permalink
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    Many links and some doody too 

    I’m heading down to Bangor tonight with Amme and Jalbey. Evan was supposed to go but hes being a ducktard and has to work. So do Zachy and B and Kelly. That sucks, but the main event is Doody is comming up from USA’s Germany (Albany, NY)!!! We’ll chill at our apartment, put them to work painting <evil cackle>Hahaha!</evil cackle> and probably catch a movie, hopefully play some Texas Hold-em, and generally just have a great time being with Matty for the first time in months and months. We all miss him a lot.

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    • Doody 10:57 am on 8/17/2004 Permalink

      And trust me, I miss you guys a lot as well…

  • euicho 12:56 pm on 8/2/2004 Permalink
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    Doom 3 leaked 

    HAH! woops!
    Doom 3 was leaked!
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3527332.stm
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  • euicho 2:16 pm on 7/16/2004 Permalink
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    IM interperability and information loss 

    Okay, enough political stuff…
    Anathema is such a cool word. I just thought I’d share that with you.
    I’ve been working on my about page and my links page. I’m hoping to get my photos page up soon as well. I’m putting them all under the same CSS with the same layouts until I decide whether I want to make them drastically different from one another or just variations on a theme.

    BE WARNED: On the navbar, Projects, Rants, and Snapshots still go to the old pages.

    AOL, MSN and Yahoo are joining Microsoft’s Live Communications Server 2005

    In an effort to tailor their various instant messaging (IM) services for better use by enterprise and remove the interoperability issues that have precluded a bigger business embrace of the real-time communication, Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) , America Online and Yahoo (Nasdaq: YHOO) today announced connectivity among the competing services using Microsoft’s Live Communications Server 2005 (LCS).
    -ECT News Enterprise Desk-

    And Hawking rescinded his Black Hole Theory… Well, that does explain a lot, lol. It takes a good man to admit a mistake. Einsten just fudged his a little… sneaky Germans. Just kidding.

     

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