- @snookca Pretty good definition by Kerrek SB here: http://t.co/Pt7aSkt7fP about 7 hours ago
- @snookca You missed the memo, sir. Though I couldn't DEFINE the difference for you if my life depended on it. about 7 hours ago
- @narwhalynn @kfan Or a @fireland podcast. =] about 1 day ago
- @narwhalynn @kfan Overdub it with a recital of a @kfan story? about 1 day ago
- Too lazy to eat. This might be a problem. about 2 days ago
- Brain stimulation maths boost link http://t.co/A7y0dWGtY2 Sign me up! about 2 days ago
- @kfan It's weird that there are people on twitter that just use it to share their instagram photos. about 3 days ago
- RT @neiltyson: Not that anybody asked, but the symbol "lb" for pound comes from an abbreviation of the constellation Libra, the scales. about 3 days ago
- RT @kfan: Oh well @fireland has not responded to my previous poke, let's all act surprised about 3 days ago
- Huh. Never before seen someone attempt to go through a revolving door clockwise. It doesn't seem to work too well. about 6 days ago
- "@root2702: ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN AND HALL AND OATES http://t.co/bS1GgLdQRu" ...WOW. about 6 days ago
- RT @the2scoops: OK everyone, so the plan is when Commander Hadfield lands, we'll all be wearing ape masks. about 6 days ago
- RT @Omundson: You spelled all the words wrong. I can't read a damn thing. RT @ElodieAngela What do u think of our French website for Psych?… about 1 week ago
- RT @root2702: I wish that we could get through just one Societas Eruditorum conference call without the sound of someone's toilet flushing. about 1 week ago
- RT @mts_outbound: @GreatDismal A veritable feast of unpaired words: http://t.co/B6e7o0tBmp about 1 week ago
- RT @jscottindy: Love these guys. =] http://t.co/eXNJv0EhKc about 1 week ago
- RT @Cmdr_Hadfield: Spaceships glowing blue in the dawn as we leave Florida headed across the Atlantic. http://t.co/GzEoCg2bb5 about 1 week ago
- RT @meyerweb: Reading Facebook makes me feel like we should just go ahead and have the Second Civil War so many people obviously want. about 1 week ago
- RT @narwhalynn: Haha this movie is great now that I'm not 13 and interpreting it as a guide to life about 1 week ago
- RT @eoghanmcdermo: Justin Bieber got 100,000 retweets for tweeting "Live life full". That's just 3 random words. I'm going to try now. Ni… about 1 week ago
- Trustttttt: about 6 months ago
A portion of proceeds will be donated to something, somewhere. Likely less stressful. Or somewhat so.
- thoughts on gibson's agrippa about 10 months ago
Edit: somebody beat me to it. It WAS RSA, though. http://www.crackingagrippa.net/
OK;
I am NOT a cryptanalyst. Nor a mathematician. Nor a terribly adept programmer.
PG. 1
http://agrippa.english.ucsb.edu/images/paratexts/code%20notes/codenotes-p1.jpg
This page contains some barely legible lisp code and plenty of handwritten notes. It appears to be RSA encryption (plenty of Euler’s Totient work scrawled in pen).Note several things in the handwritten pieces:
P, Q, E, R, and psi(R) are clearly labeled: respectively 43, 127, 13, 5461, and 5292.
This all works: P and Q are prime. P*Q is 5461. Psi(R) is 5292.Several other numbers are written, of which these two seem important: 63505 and 4885.
For RSA’s private key, D is computed so that D*E == 1 (mod psi(R)).
Swap it out for values on the page: 4885*13 == 1 (mod 5292), or 63505 (mod 5292) == 1.Thus, it seems we can assume D is 4885.
RSA encryption/decryption methods (m=plaintext, c=ciphertext)
encrypt: c = m^E % R
decrypt: m = c^d % ROne of the few legible lines of the code itself:
setf gruesome (expt 68 4885) indicates that the programmer was decrypting the value “68” (which, using the above values [(68^4885)%5461]) would result in the plaintext “530”.Note that it is entirely possible that nothing on this page actually made it into Agrippa, or that, if RSA was used, that the values referenced in pen are the values used in Agrippa.
PG. 2
http://agrippa.english.ucsb.edu/images/paratexts/code%20notes/codenotes-p2.jpg
Now THIS page references DES.It’s interesting to note here that a letter from the programmer references both DES and RSA (“…another info source would be anything on the Data Encryption Standard or mathematical works by Rivest, Shamir, Adlemann[sic]”: http://agrippa.english.ucsb.edu/images/paratexts/letterfromprogrammer/letterfromprogrammer-p4.jpg). I haven’t yet dug into this page, and I’m not entirely certain I will (again: I am not a cryptanalyst nor mathematician. This is starting to surpass my abilities).
- His hall had no oates about 1 year ago
- tinymediaempire:
“you push and pull like wolves at the door and... about 1 year ago
“you push and pull like wolves at the door and all i hear is humming.”
20x30” screen print
2009I LOVE THIS
- Hold on the range. about 1 year ago
- kde 4.5 - using dual monitor wallpapers in a slideshow about 2 years ago
KDE 4.5 does not support spreading a single wallpaper image across dual monitors. Initially, I attempted splitting the wide (3840x1080) images in half, then using KDE’s slideshow to have them both change at the same time; unfortunately, KDE’s slideshow pulls images in a random order.
Eventually I found a solution. Set each KDE desktop to slideshow, pointed at a folder which contains one image. This ensures that the desktop attempts to refresh its background at whatever frequency you set that for. I then wrote a script to select a random image out of a directory of dual monitor backgrounds, cut the image in half, and save the left and right halves to the above “slideshow” directories, overwriting the image that was currently in place. The script runs in my crontab every ten minutes. The KDE desktop refreshes the background every five minutes, so I get a new background sometime around ten minutes.
Now, I can grab images at my leisure from dualmonitorbackgrounds.com and have them automatically split and handled by my slideshow by simply dropping them into a particular directory. Magic!
Here’s the script:
#!/bin/bash
# some setup
WPD=$HOME/.kde/share/wallpapers/dm # directory of wide (3840x1080) images
WWPD=$WPD/tmp # location to store split images
OLWPD=”$WPD/L_USE” # directory the left image should be placed into
ORWPD=”$WPD/R_USE” # directory the right image should be placed into# select random wallpaper file from WPD
RFN=`/bin/ls -1 “$WPD” | sort —random-sort | grep “.jpg$” | head -1`;
RFP=`readlink —canonicalize “$WPD/$RFN”`;# split vertical into WWPD
convert $RFP -crop 50%x100% +repage $WWPD/wp_%d.jpg;
CONVERSION_RESULT=`echo $?`;if [ $CONVERSION_RESULT -eq 0 ]; then
# move left (0) into OLWPD
mv $WWPD/wp_0.jpg $OLWPD/wp.jpg;# move right (1) into ORWPD
mv $WWPD/wp_1.jpg $ORWPD/wp.jpg;
else
echo “Conversion Failed ($CONVERSION_RESULT)”;
exit 1;
fi;exit 0;
- auto swat about 3 years ago
- Reilly about 3 years ago
- Aiden about 3 years ago
- Aiden & Ryder about 3 years ago
- Aiden's clone war troopers. about 3 years ago
- Reilly, Aiden, & Ryder about 3 years ago
- Reilly about 3 years ago
- 1281739063322.jpg about 3 years ago
- 1281653125344.jpg about 3 years ago
- 1281611393073.jpg about 3 years ago
- Leapster about 3 years ago
- Aiden burped, Reilly is impervious about 3 years ago
- Quality time about 3 years ago
- Aiden about 3 years ago
- Aiden about 3 years ago
- Aiden about 3 years ago
- Reilly about 3 years ago
- Reilly about 3 years ago
- skel about 3 years ago
- IMG_20100806_121258 about 3 years ago
- Los spaghetti-heads (2 of 2) about 3 years ago
- Which language? about 3 years ago
Found this on a forum. In response to the question “Which programming language should I learn first?” - one user responds:
Depends.
To program in an expressive and powerful language: Python
To get a website up quickly: PHP
To mingle with programmers who call themselves “rockstars”: Ruby.
To really learn to program: C.
To achieve enlightenment: Scheme.
To feel depressed: SQL
To drop a chromosome: Microsoft Visual Basic
To get a guaranteed, mediocre, but well paying job writing financial applications in a cubicle under fluorescent lights: Java.
To do the same thing with certifications and letters after your name: C#
To achieve a magical sense of childlike wonder that you have a hard time differentiating from megalomania: Objective C
I could go on… but I’m not feeling hateful enough today. - you aren't understanding me about 3 years ago
…and then we’ll sit at opposing ends of a fourteen-foot (mahogany?) table in some conference room that doesn’t exist and we’ll discuss the game plan, the strategy, the slogan/motto/brainwash and they’ll periodically bring us coffee and bagels and catered lunches.
We’ll scratch empty poetry on yellow legal pads, pretending to pay attention. ‘MEETING ADJOURNED’ I’ll scream every fourth hour and you’ll nod and frown and nod and point to stupid pie-charts and graphs that illustrate the impact of written words having absolutely nothing to do with everything on how I relate to the world.
De-analyze/don’t read too deep. The meaning has been transposed to more important elements.
- Only backwards about 3 years ago
You can’t write that down, she tells me. Or everybody will know. But I do it anyway; Write it down in big fat Sharpie (R? TM?) Permanent Marker on the vestibule (? Maybe just a hall?) wall. And I sign it in only slightly smaller characters, with that disctinctive half-cursive SCO combination I hate but have resigned myself to accepting as my signature.
For good measure, I add my phone number. Only backwards.
- Unwrapping Heather's Gift about 3 years ago
- Playing with Heather's Gift about 3 years ago
- Reilly inhaling a Cupcake about 3 years ago
- Reilly playing with a nerf ball about 3 years ago
- Reilly's Mood-Swinging Temper Tantrum about 3 years ago
- The boys throwing balls around about 3 years ago
- Aiden, Wii music about 3 years ago
- fireland:
Fuck art.
Awesome. about 4 years ago
- You are in a Tion. about 4 years agoI have to pee.
He said with a concerned look on his face.
OK. - Why do you think it is the governments job to keep you safe from... about 5 years ago
Why do you think it is the governments job to keep you safe from terrorists and not the governments job to keep you safe from illness? I just don’t get this.
In my opinion, terrorists are typically the enemy of a state. Illnesses rarely target victims based on culture, geography, et cetera.
- Found whilst packing about 5 years ago
Bottom desk drawer. Locked. Key long since lost. Post-makeshift-crowbar nets: A broken (cleanly in half) pencil next to a barely legible post-it note reading: NO no no no, the mouse could not have written that letter (No idea what this means, though it is clearly in my (or some approximation of my) handwriting).
- -_- (via pics_for_all) about 5 years ago
- 4yrs later... and still no idea who 'yes motion ideal' is... about 5 years ago
- We wrote the piece [unpracticed]. about 5 years ago
We wrote the piece; a bricklaid down to sleep— thru the window. wrapped in thick brown paper. she slips; listed, listing left finally coll apsing. on. the stairs withoutlessthanaheavysigh of desperation. hands me the violin on which i remember i know no notes. (INVENT!but w/o circumvention!or retention!) - loop about 6 years ago
—The whole damn thing spirals out of control. Slippery slope, whirlpool, the works; like a giant sucking machine slurping the worst of it all—whooosh—right down it's gullet. So what now? we ask ourselves. Heh, nothing to do but write notes about the experience to ourselves on post-its; black ink scattered across the surface, invariably congregating in the lower right corner like a... a... like a—OH what's the use? Really?
She told me once, You've got to stop the daydreaming. You've got to take a deep breath, open your eyes and get a grip on reality. Because it's screaming past you so fast you're spinning in circles, facing a completely different direction than the one you started in. And so you're not making any progress. No progress whatsoever.
But it doesn't really matter because I've got no GOAL, thus no PATH to it. I'm kind of just letting these things happen. Trusting in SOMETHING to happen—
The house explodes. A couch and a television mating in mid-air, passionately embracing behind the privacy of a thick cloud of smoke and steam. He gets a phone call and leaves the office in one hell of a hurry, leaving his briefcase behind, speeding speeding speeding until he's standing in front of the ash, breathing it all in.—on it's own, no matter HOW pointless it may seem, steering me in whatever direction fate has in mind. I don't WANT control. I HAD control once, but GOSH there are too many decisions to make. Even the little, seemingly unimportant choices have a direct impact (Wassat called? Butterfly effect?). Eventually, everything overwhelms you, swallows you whole, and you're forced to just sit and watch as— - Wednesday, May 23rd about 6 years agoin which a series of hastily prepared reports incurs a sense of impending doom, repressing any remaining traces of motivation with a finality befit that of death itself.
- the way things are about 6 years ago
You are at home, standing in front of your kitchen stove, trying to remember where you put your keys (they're on the console table by the front door, where you've always intended to keep them but never remember to). You're really in a terrific hurry, but a totally unmotivated one. Like having to go to work on a weekend. Or maybe shopping for something stupid but necessary, like a new razor or something. And you've only got a few minutes to spare. And then you finally remember where your keys are and so you go do whatever it is you needed to do and it's just like that. Absolutely, totally, insanely uneventful.
Anyways, that's pretty much how things are with me. How 'bout you?
- ahhhh about 6 years agoahhhh. the kid is at his grandmom's for the night and i just took the BEST NAP EVER.
