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I haven't been on a forum in YEARS.

Speculate.

Playing around with Metro-style apps and the Win8/WinRT API and am curious how far I can take a bot.  If there's any interest at all I'll probably dump it into Gcode, otherwise it'll stay private.

For those of you who don't already know because of the secret message boards that don't exist for members only....  I'm going to be joining Microsoft on April 2nd!

I'll be working on the Chakra Runtime team - that's Microsoft's JavaScript engine - as a Program Manager.  Pretty excited!

Isn't there a tool you can use to finger a web server to determine what kind of server OS is running?  Or does it not need to be behind a firewall?  (i.e., it needs more than just the webserver)?

Thanks!

http://news.yahoo.com/minnesota-wi-fi-hacker-gets-18-years-prison-032803295.html

GFG dude.  :)

I have to admit that the e ink web browser is pretty cool.

Discuss.

See you on the other side!

I was paging through a journal tonight from the ACM and I came across this article that advocated teaching a curriculum about malware in higher education.  I was a little skeptical of this until I read the author's thought "The reason we haven't solved the problem of malware is that we don't have a theory of malware."  Then I went from being a little skeptical to thinking the author was utterly ridiculous.

A theory that could completely encapsulate malware today would be so incredibly generalized (because it would have to encapsulate innumerable systems) that it would provide no value to solving such a problem, I think.

What do you think?  Do you think we just haven't academic-ized the problem enough?

I've been a strong advocate of the serial comma.  I believe it flows well with natural speech, inserts normal separation between a list of items, and provides for a clear separation of ideas.

Discuss.

Seen in the parking garage where I park for work.

-nt

Check it out - http://robpaveza.net/sc2rep/

Written in C# and uses MBNCSUtil for things like loading the replay file MPQ and parsing the bitstream.

I will be releasing the source code soon.

As of right now, the parsing is only complete for version 1.1.x replays.  I had implemented 1.0.x, then they changed it and my updated code only supports 1.1.x.  So, I have to go back and back-port my 1.0.x code into this.

Anyone use any consumer online backup solutions like Carbonite or Mozy?  What have your thoughts been?

Carbonite really helped me on my server, but I'm concerned because they throttle bandwidth after 200gb and I'm certain I'll exceed that before too long.  My initial backup set on my brand-new, clean iMac is 18gb, and I have a ton of AVCHD files (high def movies) because I bought an HD camcorder about a year ago, that I haven't moved onto it yet.  I guess I can port them into iMovie and back up the results.... still, I'm a bit concerned.

Any thoughts?

I got an iMac 27" i7 with 8gb of memory!  Check out my desktop (attached) - I have it attached to my 24.5" Samsung.

I'm waiting to get on my plane to be in Vegas for Cisco Live.  My company did some online marketing for them.

Anyone else going to be there?  We have enough networking nerds here that I figured there might be a shot. :)

Sad day :(

http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Av-SyFGjIhdtdHRfSWg2dXc0NlZnN1g1bDFDUjM2MWc&hl=en

Here were some guiding thoughts:

- Originally I wanted to keep it under $1500, but I want something that will last well.
- I wanted a SSD for my main boot drive, and a RAID-5 setup for the rest of my hard disk space.
- Yes, I really want to get a new, wired set of mouse and keyboard.  I'm very unhappy with my wireless KB, and having to recharge my wireless mouse is kinda broken (hard to position the mouse just right).
- I don't really care about the case as long as it gets me by, reviews were positive.

Thoughts?

Booyeah!