Phoenix is dead. It’s been a week since the last signal was received. Low light, low temperatures and sandstorms killed her, but she gave us 25000 photos and 149 days of operation, versus the original planned 90 days.
SRIM+(linux/wine)
I made a bit of mess with SRIM and linux/wine. if you are interested in running SRIM outside Windows, give it a look.
New home
Part of the reason is the rise of microblogging. I also grew tired of updating WordPress. Let’s see.
Ludwig Boltzmann, who spent much of his life studying statistical mechanics, died in 1906, by his own hand. Paul Ehrenfest, carrying on the work, died similarly in 1933. Now it is our turn to study statistical mechanics. Perhaps it will be wise to approach the subject cautiously. David L. Goodstein, _States of Matter_ (1975).
VMware tools with WMware Player
Brandon Hutchinson has an interesting article on this.
You can basically extract the windows .iso image containing the tools (you can extract the others, linux, freebsde, as well) and mount them as the virtual cd-rom in your appliance instance.
Brad goes the long way using tar and pax, but Window user can try Winrar or other similar tools. Just extract the vmware-distrib/lib/isoimages/directory somewhere and mount the windows.iso image from the player. It will automagically run, and eventually install. An host reboot may be required.
Bridge in XP with a Wireless card and promiscous mode vs Ubuntu and low resolution.
It has been some time since my last post, but I have been pretty busy outside computers.
I have some good news there: dirac is now up and running, while fermi (the XP workstation) is presently on a 54000rpm hd.
In memory of Mark Hoekstra
On Saturday September 20, 2008, Mark Hoekstra, the author of geektechnique.org, passed away. “Mark passed away on Saturday morning. Mark had just turned 34 on the 12th.” As an avid geektechnique reader, I’d like to remember him here. So long, and thanks for all the fun. R.IP.
Painless WordPress upgrade
$> sudo rm- rf blog/ Disclaimer: do it at your own risk!
Milan in Sepia
Milan in Sepia, originally uploaded by hayha. To a friend. We will miss you.
Another sad XOR story: Tornado plus from Alutek
Tom Olzak from TechRepublic.com reports another sad XOR story. Whilst an indipendent confirmation would be needed, it seems that the Tornado Plus from Alutek present us with another bad XOR story: poor cryptographic knownledge and a strong target towards clueless home users. Tom says they used XOR encryption for real! OMG. More snake oil for … Leggi tutto