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The importance of false positives
An interesting paper was bought to my attention recently by this blog post: The Base Rate Fallacy and its implications for the difficulty of Intrusion Detection. The central question of this paper is: if we have a flow of N packets per day and our network IDS has a false-positive rate of X, what is…
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Fun videos
Got the links from a friend:
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Why network neutrality is a big deal
Reposted from the packetlife blog. We already pay for the bandwidth. The content providers already pay for the bandwidth. Anyone claiming anything different is either very misinformed or is straight out lying!
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Bohemian Bankruptcy
Via Naked Capitalism
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RequestPolicy Firefox Plugin – the ultimate NoScript
I recently found out about the following Firefox plugin/addon: RequestPolicy (via this blogpost) – see also the Firefox addon page. Its function is to whitelist all kinds of cross-domain requests, including scripts, style-sheets, images, objects (Flash, Java, Silverlight), etc. Anything in a webpage hosted on the domain A can reference other content from domain A,…
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help build the mozilla developer network
After asking you if you use Perl, now I’m asking you to help build the Mozilla Developer Network (MDC). They are running a survey to get to know their audience better. Please take it if you use the MDC and have a couple of minutes of free time. PS. You can read some preliminary results…
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Taking apart the Dell Inspiron 9400
A word of caution: taking apart your laptop will void your warranty. Do this operation at your own risk. If you are not comfortable doing this operation, I would recommend against it. Disassembling a laptop is harder than taking apart a desktop computer (mostly because of the confined space), so you shouldn’t do it if…
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Watch out for those reviews…
Recently I was buying a notebook HDD, and after considering a Samsung SpinPoint model, I’ve looked around the net to see if there were any known issues with the model. So I stumbled upon this page and my blood ran cold. Quote: One of the most common problems Samsung SpinPoint hard drives experience is burnt…
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And now for some upbeat news
While I certainly like to rant, one shouldn’t forget about the more sunny side of life (unless you want to go berserk). So here are some random positive things: Some songs which I like: A funny image from a friend: A couple of great freeware programs for the Windows platform: CDBurnerXP – does everything Nero…
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The difference between additive and subtractive color schemes
I’ve known for the longest time that there are two ways of creating / describing colors: additive (RGB) and subtractive (CMYK). However I never really understood the equivalence between them, until recently, when I picked up a book which presented the general concepts of typography. This is very cool, so I’ll try to document it…