Friday, October 16, 2009
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
An Equal And Opposite Reality
Progress:
(1) - Identify target group that is afflicted.
(2) - Raise awareness.
(3) - Implement new "fair" rules to mitigate target's affliction.
(4) - Target forced into another scenario with similar afflictions.
(5) - Repeat.
(1) - Identify target group that is afflicted.
(2) - Raise awareness.
(3) - Implement new "fair" rules to mitigate target's affliction.
(4) - Target forced into another scenario with similar afflictions.
(5) - Repeat.
Thursday, September 17, 2009
Blasted Checked Exceptions
Argh You Checked Exceptions!!!!
Finally someone makes the case against the bastards in a clear way: http://java.dzone.com/articles/checked-exceptions-i-love-you
The Citigroup SSO was the only project I worked on that did this. Basically every exception was a RuntimeException - and would redirect you to a standard error page - and log the problem. That's it - this isn't a pickup game of softball - why do I have to catch and rethrow?
Finally someone makes the case against the bastards in a clear way: http://java.dzone.com/articles/checked-exceptions-i-love-you
The Citigroup SSO was the only project I worked on that did this. Basically every exception was a RuntimeException - and would redirect you to a standard error page - and log the problem. That's it - this isn't a pickup game of softball - why do I have to catch and rethrow?
Monday, September 14, 2009
My Favorite Computer Warning Message
I don't see this one often, but this is my favorite warning message spit out by computers. Well, that is since "(A)bort, (R)etry, (F)ail?" has faded into obscurity. (Note the domain name and IP address have been changed to protect the innocent.
I generated this one intentionally by reassigning a DNS record for one of my domains to a different public IP address. And I'm not sure but I think in older versions of the ssh implementation it used to say "monkey-in-the-middle attack".
BTW - this is one of the messages you should take very seriously if you didn't deliberately trigger it.
@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
@ WARNING: POSSIBLE DNS SPOOFING DETECTED! @
@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
The RSA host key for xyz.com has changed,
and the key for the according IP address 196.168.0.1
is unknown. This could either mean that
DNS SPOOFING is happening or the IP address for the host
and its host key have changed at the same time.
@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
@ WARNING: REMOTE HOST IDENTIFICATION HAS CHANGED! @
@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
IT IS POSSIBLE THAT SOMEONE IS DOING SOMETHING NASTY!
Someone could be eavesdropping on you right now (man-in-the-middle attack)!
It is also possible that the RSA host key has just been changed.
The fingerprint for the RSA key sent by the remote host is
da:ca:4b:b2:23:b2:ce:9d:95:09:77:7b:df:8d:c8:bf.
Please contact your system administrator.
I generated this one intentionally by reassigning a DNS record for one of my domains to a different public IP address. And I'm not sure but I think in older versions of the ssh implementation it used to say "monkey-in-the-middle attack".
BTW - this is one of the messages you should take very seriously if you didn't deliberately trigger it.
@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
@ WARNING: POSSIBLE DNS SPOOFING DETECTED! @
@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
The RSA host key for xyz.com has changed,
and the key for the according IP address 196.168.0.1
is unknown. This could either mean that
DNS SPOOFING is happening or the IP address for the host
and its host key have changed at the same time.
@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
@ WARNING: REMOTE HOST IDENTIFICATION HAS CHANGED! @
@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
IT IS POSSIBLE THAT SOMEONE IS DOING SOMETHING NASTY!
Someone could be eavesdropping on you right now (man-in-the-middle attack)!
It is also possible that the RSA host key has just been changed.
The fingerprint for the RSA key sent by the remote host is
da:ca:4b:b2:23:b2:ce:9d:95:09:77:7b:df:8d:c8:bf.
Please contact your system administrator.
Thursday, August 27, 2009
amazon ec2 rocks
OK - I've drunk the kool-aide. I messed around with EC2 this week. And I have to say that it blows away any other hosting service that I have ever seen.
So far I've been running an AMI from alestic. Apparently there are some rouge AMIs out there which have rootkits or some such nonsense, but these look legit. It is a big step forward from the Fedora Core 7 instance I had on godaddy.
I've also setup my S3 storage with a few buckets. One is just a public bucket that I plan on using for storage related to the various blogs that I maintain or post to. I've even used a bucket to customize the alestic 9.04 ubuntu AMI with my own updates. Now I just need to setup some persistent storage that I can mount as a drive from within my instance, and I will be in business.
Well that and there is some annoying Tomcat 6 issue that I am hitting. For some reason some of my servlets are not being found. I'm pretty sure that my ajp configuration from apache isn't the problem, but I've tried several different web.xml values for the servlet's URL mappings. I can run the app, and my login and logout servlets hit fine. But the servlets that I have for hitting gwt based remote services aren't flying. Ergh.
Oh and I've got an "elastic" IP address. It is really a neat idea. Instead of having to muck with A Records, you can quickly repoint the public IP address to various instances on your account. All in all, it really does rock!
So far I've been running an AMI from alestic. Apparently there are some rouge AMIs out there which have rootkits or some such nonsense, but these look legit. It is a big step forward from the Fedora Core 7 instance I had on godaddy.
I've also setup my S3 storage with a few buckets. One is just a public bucket that I plan on using for storage related to the various blogs that I maintain or post to. I've even used a bucket to customize the alestic 9.04 ubuntu AMI with my own updates. Now I just need to setup some persistent storage that I can mount as a drive from within my instance, and I will be in business.
Well that and there is some annoying Tomcat 6 issue that I am hitting. For some reason some of my servlets are not being found. I'm pretty sure that my ajp configuration from apache isn't the problem, but I've tried several different web.xml values for the servlet's URL mappings. I can run the app, and my login and logout servlets hit fine. But the servlets that I have for hitting gwt based remote services aren't flying. Ergh.
Oh and I've got an "elastic" IP address. It is really a neat idea. Instead of having to muck with A Records, you can quickly repoint the public IP address to various instances on your account. All in all, it really does rock!
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
FYI - I'm looking for copies of any of these concerts (if taping policy of the artist or group permits).
Date Band
7/15/1997 wsp
11/14/1997 blues traveler
8/8/1998 phish
10/3/1998 gov't mule
11/21/1998 phish
4/27/1999 wsp
9/23/1999 elton john
10/14/1999 moe.
11/13/1999 wsp
11/14/1999 wsp
11/17/1999 George Clinton
12/30/1999 phish
12/31/1999 phish
2/9/2000 moe.
4/24/2000 wsp
4/25/2000 wsp
4/26/2000 wsp
5/5/2000 Rat Dog
5/7/2000 Allman Bros.
9/20/2000 moe.
4/8/2001 gov't mule
7/18/2002 wsp
7/19/2002 wsp
7/20/2002 wsp
9/7/2002 gov't mule
10/26/2008 wsp
Date Band
7/15/1997 wsp
11/14/1997 blues traveler
8/8/1998 phish
10/3/1998 gov't mule
11/21/1998 phish
4/27/1999 wsp
9/23/1999 elton john
10/14/1999 moe.
11/13/1999 wsp
11/14/1999 wsp
11/17/1999 George Clinton
12/30/1999 phish
12/31/1999 phish
2/9/2000 moe.
4/24/2000 wsp
4/25/2000 wsp
4/26/2000 wsp
5/5/2000 Rat Dog
5/7/2000 Allman Bros.
9/20/2000 moe.
4/8/2001 gov't mule
7/18/2002 wsp
7/19/2002 wsp
7/20/2002 wsp
9/7/2002 gov't mule
10/26/2008 wsp
Monday, June 8, 2009
Opposite Effect - Say It Isn't So
Well this popped up on Drudge this morning: Big government spending programs -- having opposite desired effect...
If you haven't already read the article, stop for a moment. What might the article be about? Which area of the vast federal outlay might be pouring your tax dollars into a plan that is working entirely contrary to its stated goal?
The article covers the mortgage market and explains how no amount of emergency spending will be able to forestall rising interest rates on loans. It was not green shoots springing up last quarter. It was just the government shooting up a lot of green.
I think a better caption would be "Big government spending programs -- having opposite of advertised effect...". Let the conspiracy buffs chew on that.
So is the sovereignty in our country out of its collective mind? Maybe Obama is actually a Manchurian jacobite using his cult of personality to hasten the demise of the modern liberal system by giving it everything it has wished for throughout the 20th century. Well if he is, it is totally by accident.
The truth will not set you free. It may piss you off enough to motivate you to do something, but that something may not be enough. Don't pray for an easy road. Pray for strength to handle the challenges that are ahead.
If you haven't already read the article, stop for a moment. What might the article be about? Which area of the vast federal outlay might be pouring your tax dollars into a plan that is working entirely contrary to its stated goal?
The article covers the mortgage market and explains how no amount of emergency spending will be able to forestall rising interest rates on loans. It was not green shoots springing up last quarter. It was just the government shooting up a lot of green.
I think a better caption would be "Big government spending programs -- having opposite of advertised effect...". Let the conspiracy buffs chew on that.
So is the sovereignty in our country out of its collective mind? Maybe Obama is actually a Manchurian jacobite using his cult of personality to hasten the demise of the modern liberal system by giving it everything it has wished for throughout the 20th century. Well if he is, it is totally by accident.
The truth will not set you free. It may piss you off enough to motivate you to do something, but that something may not be enough. Don't pray for an easy road. Pray for strength to handle the challenges that are ahead.
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