Installing NVIDIAs driver version 52.16 the other day magically solved my Direct3D problems. I have been playing Halo for hours on end, and I have to tell you, it is the most captivating, mood-setting and scary single player game I have played since Quake in 1995 or 1996. It is nothing, at all, like the Xbox version. I am delighted I got it, and at two-thirds of the price in stores, too. Amazon rocks.
Driving is going just fine. I have not crashed and there have been no near misses. I am enjoying driving by an order of magnitude more than I had ever imagined. I stick on Cradle of Filth, Norah Jones or whatever my mood calls for, and away I go.
Would you believe me if I said I spent money on trees today? Not dead trees, as in books or magazines but actual living trees that grow in a garden.
I wish I had more time. There are still things to do around the house, and this weekend will see me spending some time putting trees into the ground. The FAQ for dk.edb.sikkerhed is badly in need of attention, I need to get Dancer 4.17 out the door soon, unix-faq.dk needs to be opened, I need to submit some material for the Danish BSD book that some people are working on, and much more.
I need drugs to keep me awake and my brain working.
If you happen to care even the slightest, my PC still locks up randomly but regularly for reasons best known by someone else.
If you are ever going to do a harddisk encryption product that supports smart cards, please make sure that the first encryption key is placed on the smart card, not on the harddisk someone might actually want to steal. Promise me.
The time is exactly midnight and I am going to bed.
It is late Sunday night and she went to bed hours ago. I am relaxing to a song by The Sisters of Mercy and, according to my playlist, soon Cradle of Filth. I spent this weekend playing Operation Flashpoint with the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen also known as Evilnet.
Replacing my GeForce 2 with another video adapter did not solve my Direct3D issues. Nor did removing all PCI cards. 14 passes of Memtest-86 says my PC133 RAM is perfect. I blame my chipset/motherboard. One of the Gentlemen brought a very sexy Shuttle X PC. I may get one. It has exactly one free PCI slot for my Soundblaster Live! and one free AGPx8 slot for whatever lightning-fast graphics accelerator I am getting.
On the other hand, simply getting a new motherboard, CPU and memory would be much cheaper. Decisions, decisions.
Thursday, being my first day with a license, I drove 100KM without a crash. Drove another 100KM today. When I started singing along to a U2 track, she skipped to the next one. Otherwise, nothing to report.
I got my drivers license today. And I got this as well.
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TELL ME YOU ARE KIDDING.
TELL ME YOU ARE FUCKING KIDDING. Security vulnerabilities in The Windows Messenger Service as well as Windows Help and Support Center allow for remote code execution.
This is so not funny any more.
Pretend I am a 4 year old. Got it? Cool. Now, please explain to me why the world insists on installing firewalls on every client. What's wrong with designing an OS so that it does NOT NEED TO EXPOSE SERVICES ON THE NETWORK TO FUNCTION?
There are numerous ways for doing inter-process communication without resorting to network interfaces that anyone can reach.
I am so sick of this. If you mention personal firewalls to me, I swear I will shoot everyone you love, leaving you to die a painful death in solitude.
You would not know it by looking at me, but I can feel terribly inadequate at times. There are several reasons for this. The primary reason is that I keep comparing myself to Gutmann, Cheswick, Anderson and other seasoned security researchers who have been in the security field for 800 years or so. I feel like no matter how much energy I put into improving the world it is not enough. I feel like no matter how much energy I direct towards explaining security risks on a level that a 4 year old would understand, the world just does not listen. The whole ordeal leaves me quite depleted of energy. What baffles me the most is that some of these pay me specifically to give advice on matters pertaining to information security.
I know of at least one other thing that causes feelings of inadequacy. When Robbie Williams was my age, he was a year away from signing a $80 million contract. I have less than a year to achieve the same level of financial security. I admit to feeling slightly pressured.
You should go out of your way to watch Hedwig and the Angry Inch.