Archive for October, 2006

Scary fundamentalism

Sunday, October 29th, 2006

Perusing Scientific American, February 2002. Yes, I admit I'm a bit behind with my reading... But I do not suspect the information is invalid due to the passage of a few years. Before the neo-con equivalent of the mutawa have all back issues burned and all references made illegal it ...

MD5 Hashes - Part 2

Tuesday, October 17th, 2006

MD5 Encryption? It's been a while since I wrote the first part of this MD5 article . Here in Part 2 I'm not (yet) going to cover the subject of hash collisions... That will follow in another future part. Just now I want to deal with the pervasive, but wrong, belief ...

Ruby on Rails. On Ubuntu.

Tuesday, October 3rd, 2006

Here's how to do it. I had a Ubuntu box running 6.06 (Dapper) and a vanilla install of Apache2, PHP5 and MySQL5. I wanted to dabble in Ruby on Rails using the same box, but not affect the "production" side of it. Despite the normally trivially easy install of software on Ubuntu ...