analysis
of the methods used to win the honeynet reverse engineering challenge.

Color me impressed.

also from here…

David Sedaris
 October 21 
 Charlotte, NC Ovens Auditorium. 
Box Office Phone:704-335-3100.

Interesting. Haven’t actually read any of his books yet (I couldnt
find them at B&N and didn’t feel like asking for it…) but have
seen him on Letterman and a few other things before and
suspect it would be an interesting talk/lecture/reading/whatever.

Maybe there will be a Sedaris/Rollins speaking tour. That
could be interesting.

A pretty uneventful weekend/holiday all around. Pretty much just sat
around and read most of the weekend.

Picked up a couple books from B&N. Why People
Belive Weird Things by Michael Shermer,
Stupid White Men
by Michael Moore, The
Phillip K Dick Reader, and
An Eames
Primer (books on 20th century americian designers seems to be my
new kick…)

So far only read “Why People Believe Weird Things”. Fairly entertaining
overall, though the chapter about Frank Tipler and his “omega point
theory” was just bizarre and didnt seem to fit in at all. Especially
the 4 page digression on why Tipler being a firstborn child causes
him to be weird. wtf is that doing in the middle of an otherwise adequate
book on skepticism? I almost expected to get to the end of the chapter
and have the last paragraph be “Just kidding. If you believed that perhaps
you should read chapters 1-4 again” but no such luck.

The book of Philip K Dick stories is somewhat interesting. Mainly just
because I hardly read fiction, and basically never read sci-fi or fantasy
books/stories. But aside from my trouble “suspending disbelief” it’s
pretty entertaining. I suspect reading a book on skepticism at the same
time doesn’t help ;-> Kind of interesting to read a short story with a
pretty obvious anti-scientiology theme to it that was written in 1954 though.

The Rush concert was excellent. I managed to luck into a 15th row ticket
(Kevin from Wafer Thin
and Dave from Japan AIr had a extra
ticket… Going to a Rush show with two drummers, who would of guessed?)

Sow started at 7:30, no opening band. They opened with Tom Sawyer,
which got things off to a good start. The set was composed of a song
or two from each of the last couple albums, and then a handful of
classics.

They played some songs I’d never seen them play live before (
except maybe as quick bits in a medley…). “Natural Science”
was one I wasn’t expecting. They also played somewhat
shortened versions of 2112 (“Overture”, “Temples of Syrinx”,)
and Cygnus-X1. YYZ was played in it’s entirety, and most
of La Villa Strangiato (only the beginning was shortened).

“Vital Signs”, “Bytor and the Snowdog”, “Working Man”,
and “Red Sector A” also surprised me.

The stage set was actually fairly small. The oddest thing
was on Geddy’s side. instead of a wall of bass amps, there
were three maytag coin operated dryers. They were setup
to at least be spinning with a bunch of tshirts in them. And
just to make it goofier, they were all miked. Or at least,
had mikes pointing at them ;-> I’m sure somewhere there
is a bizarre in joke that led to that.

Wooo!

Looks like I lucked into some free 15th row tickets for
tonights Rush show.

Whee.

Todays mixed metaphor

The shots in the dark couldn't hit the side of a barn.

So, I could use some help. This is in the theory that explaining
the bug I see often helps you find it…

The web hosters claim the wrapper script is fine. Okay, lets say it is. So
it’s something wrong with my script right?

the script is called “showImage.py”. It’s a get, it expects querystring
of the form “image=something.jpg”

a annoying python cgi bug description follows…

Yay, more stuff to do. Yay!

Web hosters are starting to bother me. Seems to me if a paying customer
on a shared web host sends you an email that saids “I think one of your
canned suid cgi apps is segfaulting if I send it the wrong arguments and heres
how I’m doing it…” you would respond to their email fairly quickly. But
what do I know?

This installer is getting out of hand.

heh…

You scored 12, on a scale of 0 to 100. Here’s how to interpret your score:
25 – 29
Hardcore Skeptic — but interested or you wouldn’t be here!

25 is the lowest score they list. heh. Though the
test vaguely reminded me of the scientoligy “personality”
test. From some
random site

So, I guess I’m posting quiz results now. Nest thing you know I’ll
be bitching about my parents and how poor I am and how cool
the new Britney Spears album is.

Trying to write an installer for something is such a PITA. I’m beginning to understand
the pain katzj/msw have to live with. Of course it doesnt help that I’m trying
to develop it on a release that it’s not intended to be ran on. But when
you have 7 releases to get stuff working on, you kind of have to pick
a few and go with it.

Web hosters are mildly annoying me. Weird cgi errors that go away
when you copy the script to a different name and run it that way.
Wtf is up with that? and the script doesnt parse argv[0] or anything
interesting. That would almost sort of make sense. And no response
to my support ticket yet.

Did close to nothing over the weekend. Picked up the new Bowie
cd, and a half dozen architecture/design books from Readers Corner.
I cant pass up books about buildings falling down for $3.

Need to figure out what I’m going to do over the 4th. Probably
head home.