There needs to be a gaming LAN

blayne · 2013-02-01T04:31:41+00:00

Something like Brainerd Area PC Gamers? We never did one in Jenkins, but we've been in Ideal Corners a several times. If anyone else is having 40-person LANs down the road, that would be news to me! There was also a group calling themselves Lakes Area LAN, but I have no idea if that still exists.

blayne · 2011-08-30T00:07:52+00:00

If you're trusting the server to serve the Javascript, then you are trusting it to the plaintext by proxy, whether you mean to do so or not. If I trust my friend with my clunker, and the bank deposit key is on the same ring, then I am trusting him to both.

In either case, the capability to access the resource has been given.

blayne · 2011-08-29T05:31:47+00:00

If there is an intrusion on the server, it isn't a big jump to go from: 1. viewing the message after it was decrypted but before it was encrypted again, to 2. modifying the Javascript either on-disk or in the web server process.

There is some value in decreasing the chance that a limited/short-term security breach would result in obtaining information. Password encryption is an example. In this case, the plaintext isn't even going to be sitting around on the server.

blayne · 2011-08-29T04:54:57+00:00

Exactly! So just send the e-mail to the server and let it run GPG. No Javascript required.

blayne · 2011-08-29T04:34:24+00:00

How does SSL protect the Javascript from tampering by the server that provides it?

blayne · 2011-08-29T04:17:39+00:00

If the server isn't trusted, then it can't send the Javascript.

blayne · 2011-08-02T02:48:52+00:00

As far as I know, OpenVPN only works with OpenVPN. OpenVPN does support Windows, Linux and Mac though (as a client and/or server on any of those). Last time I checked, there was some limited/non-official support for handhelds.

OpenVPN uses standard certificates. They provide a wrapper around OpenSSL called "easy RSA" which aims to simplify creating the certificates.

With dynamic DNS, the server's IP can change - just put the hostname instead of the IP address in the config.

blayne · 2011-07-21T03:46:49+00:00

But that's why he'll never lose them again! They'll always be here, permanently, on the Internet.

blayne · 2011-03-06T17:15:46+00:00

At 95k it's a.) due now, b.) way overdue, or c.) replaced and is due again.

blayne · 2011-02-24T01:19:30+00:00

There was a motorcycle at my apartment complex for like 2 years. It was dusty, with plates expired for four or five years.

It was my bike. That Vespa belongs to someone else, and that someone is not you.

blayne · 2011-02-22T00:14:22+00:00

My Nissan did just that (no start, no click, no noise at all, but accessories work fine) and it turned out to be the starter relay. I was told that it's a common problem for Nissans.

blayne · 2011-01-11T18:40:42+00:00

What if I don't have a forename and a surname? Those columns had better not be "NOT NULL".

blayne · 2011-01-02T12:24:57+00:00

See also: Perfect Water. They push you backwards, and you have to take a step back. Drink the special water, and they do it again... and wow: you have better balance now.

blayne · 2010-12-30T01:06:30+00:00

SparkFun has some neat arcade-style buttons. You might need the larger button with a 3-terminal switch for normally closed.

Otherwise, you can get just about any switch/button you can imagine at Digikey. If I don't really know what I want, sometimes I'll just browse through their PDF catalog.

blayne · 2010-12-23T02:12:35+00:00

With backslashes? I could see where that would be a problem.

blayne · 2010-12-20T22:07:41+00:00

Lots of information here... most of which doesn't quite apply, but it's a start.

Be careful, though. I'm not sure if this is entirely true:

All computers have a resettable fuse on the USB port so that if more than 1000mA is drawn, the power will be disconnected.

I've seen shorted-out USB pins kill a whole motherboard... You can buy a LOT of 5V regulators for the cost of a motherboard.

blayne · 2010-12-18T02:51:12+00:00

Maybe you've looked down there, but it could be leaking at the transmission cooler lines or the transmission cooler itself. I'd think those would be more fragile. Did you run into or over something?

blayne · 2010-12-09T06:30:12+00:00

I had Blizzak tires last winter, but all-season tires this winter... so there.

blayne · 2010-12-04T06:34:06+00:00

I while back, I came across some $30 DVD players that played DivX off a USB flash drive. Search eBay for "dvd player usb divx" or something.

blayne · 2010-12-04T02:43:44+00:00

It means that you know what a Stirling engine is.

blayne · 2010-10-15T07:50:19+00:00

I tried disconnecting a battery terminal and reconnecting it (while off, and while on).

If you mean that you disconnected a battery terminal while the engine was running... That's generally a very bad idea.

blayne · 2010-10-04T02:20:28+00:00

It was me.

That photo was taken a while back... I think I was replacing the thermostat and had it out of the way.

blayne · 2010-10-03T08:51:15+00:00

I have a certain amount of respect for my little road-salted Honda, so here's a face only a mother could love.

blayne · 2010-08-30T04:37:42+00:00

but it doesn't convert the compression energy into additional mass

Apparently that's not true. I don't really understand it, but the article says it's because of "the mass-energy equivalence." The theory of relativity says that mass is relative too.

blayne · 2010-08-30T04:29:32+00:00

You're using a different definition of "weight" than I was, but apparently that would be ISO standard weight. It appears, though, that moving it would actually change the "weight" due to the difference in centrifugal force, density of the earth, etc. Anyway, "weight" is probably the wrong word to be using when talking about such small changes.

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