Daniel Von Fange

Illustrated Guide to Hashes

bq. It's more likely that a million people will correctly guess all the California Lottery numbers every day for a billion trillion years... -- From the "Illustrated Guide to Cryptographic Hashes":http://www.unixwiz.net/techtips/iguide-crypto-hashes.html

Safari Javascript bug

Posted for Google to find: Safari does not like functions to called be called "status". If you commit such a monstrosity, execution will stop when you call your function. Naming a function "status" works fine in IE, Firefox, and Opera. If you have javascript debugging turned on in Safari, you will see:

(result of expression status) is not object. Cannot be called.
(event handler):Value function status() 

Demonstration of problem:

TeX

I've just "discovered" TeX and LaTeX, the unix way of making pretty documents. TeX uses special codes inside a plain text document - no WYSIWYG here. I'm in love with the separation between content and presentation. In the past, for this reason, I just used HTML and CSS for writing documents.

Slice of life.

I upgraded from a Treo 300 to Treo 600. Naturally getting a camera phone for the first time, I had to shoot lots of photos.

Ruby on Rails

Rails, a ruby framework, is simply the best way I’ve found to develop small to medium sized web apps. I could rave on for quite a while, but I won’t.

Instiki Application

Instiki, one of the nicest little wikis, now has a standalone application for OS X. You start the application, as you would any other program on your mac, and you have a wiki running on your network. No pain, all gain.

An Open Proxy’s View

bq. In effect, CoDeeN is one of the largest ``open'' proxy networks in the world, and therefore draws unwanted attention from malicious users. This paper discusses our experiences with undesirable traffic on CoDeeN, the mechanisms we developed to curtail it, and the future directions for such work. Full paper here. Rather interesting.