Scary fundamentalism

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 is worth recording what is […]

October 29th, 2006 | Category: Uncategorised | Comments are closed

MD5 Hashes – Part 2

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 that MD5 (or […]

October 17th, 2006 | Category: FPage | 2 comments - (Comments are closed)

Ruby on Rails. On Ubuntu.

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 I banged my […]

October 3rd, 2006 | Category: FPage | Comments are closed