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Confidentiality in email reduxPosted by Synfinatic on April 22, 2006 at 12:16 pm in Geek Law, Rant.So maybe it’s just me, but it seems that these “confidentiality notices” in emails are on the rise.
7 Years under the DMCAPosted by Synfinatic on April 15, 2006 at 11:03 pm in Geek Law.The EFF has written a great piece on how the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA) has really effected the country. Unsurprisingly to many in the technical community, the DMCA hasn’t been used to stop would-be copyright infringers, but rather to stifle innovation, threaten scientists, restrict free use and threaten free speech. Well worth reading.
Comedy Central censors pictures of MohammedPosted by Synfinatic on April 13, 2006 at 2:42 pm in Politics, Rant.So I’ll be honest, when I watched part two of “Cartoon Wars” and saw that Mohammed had been “censored” I figured it was just Matt & Trey (the creators of South Park) pulling a gag to make a point. After all, South Park had shown Mohammed multiple times in past episodes (”Super Best Friends” for example) and there was no censoring then. But, it was actually Comedy Central which censored the episode. Apparently, CC thought that in the current climate it was “unsafe” to air pictures of Mohammed. Anyways, even if you hate South Park, I would strongly encourage you to see Cartoon Wars episodes I & II. Matt and Trey do what they do best- making …
GSM + powered subwoofer == painPosted by Synfinatic on April 11, 2006 at 8:52 pm in Tech.So being a geek I enjoy your typical geek toys like my Treo 650 and home theater (just upgraded to an Onkyo TX-SR803). Anyways, ever since switching from Verizon (expensive, not great feature list, but good coverage) to Cingular (less expensive, more features, almost as good coverage) I’ve been fighting with interference between the phone and my powered subwoofer. Anyways, long story short, is that this is apparently a common problem for TDMA/GSM phones and subwoofers which take line-level input. Basically, the phone traffic is picked up by the speaker and is amplified to an audiable level. Very annoying. Apparently, having high quality shielded audio cables aren’t enough… your sub needs to be shielded as well. …
Just how many replay tools are there?Posted by Synfinatic on April 6, 2006 at 8:24 pm in tcpreplay.So my friend Chris sent me this link to yet another tcpreplay copycat. There’s already IDS Informer and Traffic IQ. Of course, the above tools have pretty GUI’s and have some features not found in tcpreplay, but the fact is that if you take tcpreplay, tcpdump, ethereal and NetDude you get 60-90% of the functionality at 0% of the cost. Anyways, I’ll bet there are plenty of other tcpreplay look-alikes… If you know of any, leave a comment and let me know! Even better, if you’ve bought one of these tools, why did you pick it over the alternatives?
Making progress…Posted by Synfinatic on April 4, 2006 at 11:44 pm in tcpreplay.Well tonight, my allergies were going bonkers and I knew I wouldn’t be able to get any sleep until the drugs kicked in. Hence I not only found time to continue working on the new tcpreplay website, but also to make huge strides on moving all the packet editing functionality into a library which will end up shipping with tcpreplay 3.0. As it turns out, one of the nice advantages of using Bruce Korb’s excellent AutoOpts package, is that you can make argument processing part of your library too, so people have the option of filling out the tcpedit_t data structure manually or let the library do all the work.
Tcpreplay has a new home!Posted by Synfinatic on April 2, 2006 at 4:23 pm in tcpreplay.Well as of today, other then the tcpreplay mailing lists and file downloads, I’ve moved off of SourceForge. SF is a nice service (hard to complain about free) but it’s missing a lot of features which I’ve grown to expect. Hence, I’ve now moved the offical tcpreplay homepage to tcpreplay.synfin.net. As you’ll no doubt quickly notice, I’ve moved to using Trac which is a great wiki, ticking and front-end to SVN all in one. Be sure to check it out and leave a comment!
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