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2024
Book Review: Practical Threat Detection Engineering
14 October 2024
Speaking to the dead
02 September 2024
Fortunes
03 August 2024
2023
Cars in Newfoundland
31 March 2023
2022
Reading Microsoft MSG files with Python
30 June 2022
2021
No Robot Searches Please
26 February 2021
FreeBSD host, bhyve with Debian 10.7 guest
16 January 2021
Generating new SSH keys in 2021
07 January 2021
2019
Gorgeous Georgeous
23 November 2019
Bacon and Egg Coal Miner's Pasta
15 October 2019
bash redirect stderr and stdout to null
24 September 2019
New software: Pelican
01 September 2019
2018
Privacy and account security online
16 February 2018
2016
Python, MacOS, OpenSSL, MacPorts
25 February 2016
2015
Using jq with Bro logs
03 August 2015
Travis, 2003 - 20 May 2015
20 May 2015
2013
FreeBSD, irssi, screen, and UTF-8
18 November 2013
Using Bro to load balance
13 September 2013
Automated rsync backups with ssh key restrictions
30 July 2013
Hello, goodbye
04 July 2013
2012
Double click for new terminal
03 October 2012
Making Mail.app usable
11 September 2012
Documentation and maturity
19 August 2012
chkconfig, mysql
19 January 2012
2011
Using Stow on a Mac
22 December 2011
Dealing with MacOS extended file attributes
19 September 2011
Mein Name ist
04 August 2011
packetfu followup
21 March 2011
What is a driveby download?
25 February 2011
2010
Credential theft, mitigations thereof
29 December 2010
Firesheep: black hats for the masses
25 November 2010
Networked printers are cool
18 November 2010
UNC faculty member held responsible for security breach
08 October 2010
Suricata and pf_ring on RHEL 5.5
20 September 2010
A snark on modern computing
28 April 2010
Doing pcap stuff with Ruby on a Mac
27 April 2010
Quinn on the 09-10 Oilers
02 April 2010
Snow Leopard vs Macfusion
09 February 2010
Grading the Players: 2009-12-31 vs CAL
01 January 2010
2009
Tracking NAT users for abuse reports
25 November 2009
Burkie's Heart
24 November 2009
Grading the Players: Sorry Steve
11 November 2009
Grading the Players: 2009-11-10 vs OTT
11 November 2009
Ubuntu Keyring vs login password
04 November 2009
Oilers vs Flames followup, 3 October 2009
05 October 2009
Grading the Players: 2009-10-03 vs CAL
04 October 2009
Grading the Players: The Grades
04 October 2009
Schremp and the draft
01 October 2009
Developuction
16 September 2009
Wired for info
18 August 2009
The Evil Dead Windows
04 August 2009
Crayon network shapes for Visio
29 July 2009
Risky Business: Assuming Competency
25 July 2009
Risk Metrics: A Sad Story
16 July 2009
Heatley's Baggage
03 July 2009
Penner for Heater?
30 June 2009
Finals and Drafts
28 June 2009
Why security and usability *must* go hand in hand
03 June 2009
Ethics: open shares
31 May 2009
Clean up bloaty Macs
31 May 2009
Playoff Predictions: SCF 2009
28 May 2009
Playoff Predictions: Round 3 2009
15 May 2009
Playoff Predictions: Round 2
29 April 2009
Playoff Predictions: Round 1 2009
13 April 2009
Conficker: what gives?
28 March 2009
Grading the Players: 2009-03-26 at Phoenix
27 March 2009
Ada Lovelace Day
24 March 2009
Grading the Players: 2009-03-07 vs TOR
07 March 2009
Users and forensics
25 February 2009
Grading the Players: 2009-02-19 vs DAL
20 February 2009
Grading the Players: 2009-02-05 vs STL
06 February 2009
Grading the Players: 2009-01-30 vs MIN
31 January 2009
Something else gonna give?
21 January 2009
Something had to give: Garon on the move
17 January 2009
Grading the Players: 2009-01-15 vs MIN
16 January 2009
Grading the Players: 2009-01-05 vs NYI
06 January 2009
Grading the players: metapost
04 January 2009
2008
Grading the Players: 2008-12-30 vs Ottawa
31 December 2008
Grading the Players: 2008-12-28 vs Nashville
29 December 2008
System Monitoring
28 December 2008
SSH keys tricks
24 December 2008
History is Boring: Dangerous Chain Letters
21 December 2008
Grading the Players: 2008-12-17 vs Vancouver
18 December 2008
That guy you know
03 December 2008
Starting an IH/R program
23 November 2008
Cheat Sheets for incident handling
23 November 2008
Math is hard: powerplay faceoff percentage
20 November 2008
Grading the players: 2008-11-19 at Columbus
19 November 2008
Please sir, could you get that number?
16 November 2008
Stock photography reference
14 November 2008
IBM's secrets for cluster admins
09 November 2008
Headshots
08 November 2008
Grading the Players: 2008-11-06 vs Pittsburgh
07 November 2008
Simmons Part 2 on Frost
29 October 2008
Steve Simmons shows us how it's done
28 October 2008
Grading the Players: 2008-10-27 vs Bruins
28 October 2008
Grading the players: 2008-10-22
23 October 2008
Grading the players
22 October 2008
Tempests in teapots are insignificant only if you're a coffee drinker
22 October 2008
Grading the Players: 2008-10-18
19 October 2008
Game 1 2008: an undeserved win
13 October 2008
About time
12 October 2008
Cleaning up after MacPorts
12 October 2008
But you're not like me
12 October 2008
MSN Shadow: Forensics for MSN Messenger
05 October 2008
IT as a service organization
04 October 2008
Quirks and Quarks on Psychopathy
04 October 2008
Microsoft on investigating a Windows machine
04 October 2008
I need a book to tell me being nice might get me stuff?
04 October 2008
IPB Blogging Questionnaire: MikeP edition
04 October 2008
Statsguys vs nonstats guys (things have gone downhill)
03 October 2008
Lottery systems
03 October 2008
People lie more in an email
30 September 2008
Mike's Email Apohorism
05 September 2008
New podcast
20 August 2008
Rev Up For School on Ebay!
10 August 2008
Watching Hockey for Newbies
10 August 2008
How do I start something?
01 August 2008
When documentation does not match reality: svn
31 July 2008
Followup: Solaris 10 pkgsrc
17 July 2008
College boys leaving town
17 July 2008
Solaris 10 pkgsrc
17 July 2008
Office Space
17 July 2008
Oh, that's just Burkie
10 July 2008
Debian 4.0 on SPARC64
07 July 2008
How much to concentrate on patching?
04 July 2008
Popular views of justice
02 July 2008
Whither Horcoff?
02 July 2008
Morgentaler to the Order of Canada
01 July 2008
Torres, Pitkanen out, Brule and Cole in; Dupuis
01 July 2008
Vish: to Edmonchuk
30 June 2008
Poor Mats Sundin
22 June 2008
A university's environmental responsibility
15 June 2008
Philosophy is out of the picture
11 June 2008
No more HNIC theme? Say it ain't so!
05 June 2008
Chinese society and the white man's burden
03 June 2008
Damn wives
02 June 2008
Security through obscurity: email non-publication
27 May 2008
Stanley Cup Finals 2008
19 May 2008
Death in the family
17 May 2008
SEC504: Hacker Techniques and Incident Handling
16 May 2008
2008 Playoffs Round 3 Predictions
05 May 2008
HNIC Towels
27 April 2008
Staples: look at the success of previous RFA offers
24 April 2008
2008 Playoffs Round 2 Predictions
23 April 2008
Windows Apple Updater and Metrics
20 April 2008
Avery's a dick too
15 April 2008
CinO wonders what the bullet equivalent of a puck to the testes is
15 April 2008
Oilers Players: post-season interviews 2008
14 April 2008
Next year's Oilers: the forwards
13 April 2008
Personally, I think that this is just my opinion
13 April 2008
2008 Playoffs Round 1 predictions
07 April 2008
Accountants don't get it
07 April 2008
Computer thefts and privacy: some administrators get it
07 April 2008
Solaris runtime dependencies
29 March 2008
State of the NHL: 23 March 2008
23 March 2008
Human Coal and Talent
01 March 2008
Writing Tools: MarsEdit
23 February 2008
Justice, mental health, and redirected aggression
17 February 2008
Stick a fork in 'em
04 February 2008
Tarnstrom and Glencross
02 February 2008
Emotions, simulating and emulating
31 January 2008
A Sun rant
28 January 2008
Those who live by the sword
25 January 2008
Aphorism regarding academic computing
14 January 2008
Reporters and deadlines
08 January 2008
2007
Writing software - for weblogs
30 December 2007
Interdisciplinary seminars
27 December 2007
Backups for your PC
24 December 2007
MAD or just mad?
24 December 2007
Arguing
14 December 2007
Public credulity with respect to brain science
14 December 2007
Sun N1 Grid Engine: don't edit batch files in Windows
14 December 2007
Mens rea in Canadian law
13 December 2007
Why your writing sucks.
09 December 2007
Academic assholes
07 December 2007
The Irrelevant Olympics
07 December 2007
Write like you talk, but edit: contradictory advice?
06 December 2007
PSA: don't run DoubleCommand + Leopard
16 November 2007
Things were so much better in the old days, weren't they?
15 November 2007
Dustin Penner: a mid-November look
11 November 2007
Reasons to Hate 3: The Detroit Red Wings
11 November 2007
Game Day Saturday: Oilers Flames 10 November 2007
11 November 2007
Leopard revisited
09 November 2007
Leopard: Spaces vs CodeTek Virtual Desktop, other tidbits
06 November 2007
Reasons to Hate 2: The Buffalo Sabres
04 November 2007
Writing well
04 November 2007
RTH: Derek Boogaard
04 November 2007
Chalmers-zombies
21 October 2007
Schremp back in Springfield, some thoughts on Pouliot
20 October 2007
Definitions harmful?
19 October 2007
Automounting CDs in Solaris 10
15 October 2007
Gameday Saturday: 13 October 2007
13 October 2007
Friday the 12th 2007: Vancouver at Edmonton
13 October 2007
Reasons to Hate 1: The Anaheim (Mighty) Ducks
13 October 2007
Reasons to Hate 0: Intro
13 October 2007
Bad UI: OpenSuSE 10.3
12 October 2007
The Oilers so far
07 October 2007
More on mpijohn
04 October 2007
How does the mind relate to the body?
03 October 2007
Good job, Bettman
03 October 2007
Moreau gets the C
02 October 2007
Combating "but you're too busy" syndrome
02 October 2007
FOSS Politics
30 September 2007
MacT: money quote
23 September 2007
Lights, camera, hopefully no action
20 September 2007
Solaris 10 under VMWare (Fusion) - busted.
20 September 2007
Succincter
19 September 2007
Succinctness
17 September 2007
Yummy curried cabbage and salmon
16 September 2007
OpenDNS
14 September 2007
Laforge: divorce is worth it!
13 September 2007
MPI john
06 September 2007
Pisani
06 September 2007
Imprint?
06 September 2007
Player agents: show me the money
03 September 2007
Interpreting user-specified metadata
03 September 2007
Whose responsibility?
01 September 2007
Bell Canada Disservice
01 September 2007
Automapping SMB mounts at login under OS X 10.4
31 August 2007
Mac MUD clients
30 August 2007
Leadership is doing what you say
22 August 2007
Sundin's new squeeze is news?
18 August 2007
Testing Snort
18 August 2007
OSXplanet
12 August 2007
Writing Papers - abstracts and using LaTeX
12 August 2007
ftester - a firewall / IDS tester
12 August 2007
Trinity Rescue Kit
12 August 2007
A reason why I love hockey
11 August 2007
Good customer service
11 August 2007
Cammalleri, Penner
07 August 2007
Fixing NTP under OS X
04 August 2007
Using ipmitool on SuSE boxes
03 August 2007
On soldiering and yellow ribbons
03 August 2007
Regular expression quickies
03 August 2007
Pointing the fingers after a data breach
31 July 2007
QEMU for Macs
29 July 2007
Terror struck
28 July 2007
Thunderbird + Growl, take two
28 July 2007
Core Force: Free Windows Security
13 July 2007
UFA quickies
12 July 2007
Google hacking keywords
12 July 2007
Thunderbird + Growl
12 July 2007
Sid the Kid signs
11 July 2007
Lowe and the press
08 July 2007
UFA season, 2007 (part 1a)
02 July 2007
UFA season, 2007 (part 1?)
02 July 2007
Irony (in the Alanis sense)...
01 July 2007
First iPhone vulnerability
01 July 2007
FreeBSD clusters
29 June 2007
Setting hostnames in OS X
29 June 2007
Tricky Dicky
29 June 2007
Reasons vs excuses
25 June 2007
Necroposting
24 June 2007
Introduction to rainbow tables
23 June 2007
103 Free Security Applications
23 June 2007
Inherently contradictory beliefs and artificial intelligence
23 June 2007
Anti-rant: First round, 2007
23 June 2007
Muckler and Hartnell out
18 June 2007
Ubuntu 6.06 vs Dell nvidia card: fight!
11 June 2007
Illusory security
10 June 2007
Distributed john
10 June 2007
Study of social computing (with some political waffling)
10 June 2007
Creative thinkers at work
10 June 2007
A bit more on AI and forgetting
10 June 2007
Google Earth
09 June 2007
Yashin?
07 June 2007
Not really Canada's team
07 June 2007
Site update
26 May 2007
Windows: SMB over SSH
19 May 2007
Communicating with students
18 May 2007
Why does it matter?
13 May 2007
perfmon in Ubuntu 6.10
01 May 2007
Metasploit 3.0 under Ubuntu 7.04
30 April 2007
A question for security pros
24 April 2007
Mini-review: Unicomp keyboard
24 April 2007
bash foreach
16 April 2007
argus hates FreeBSD tun devices?
09 April 2007
Schremp
06 April 2007
Stupid UI: Lenovo
26 March 2007
Edmonton Major Junior Thunder
18 March 2007
Mindmapping and goalsetting
17 March 2007
Mac mind mapping bookmark
17 March 2007
Sun Media and stupidity
15 March 2007
Dogmatic security
15 March 2007
BackTrack 2.0 beta
07 March 2007
Update on Mind Maps
05 March 2007
Habits of effective philosophy students
05 March 2007
Computer security misses the point
04 March 2007
The future
04 March 2007
Last on Smytty
04 March 2007
Captain Highliner
01 March 2007
"Captain Nassau"
28 February 2007
DISA Checklists
12 February 2007
Google searches
06 February 2007
Thoresen back to Wilkes-Barre, Samsonov waived
06 February 2007
vs Avalanche, 3 Feb 2007
04 February 2007
Mark Pilgrim's History of DVD Encryption
21 January 2007
Stortini finally draws in
21 January 2007
Luongo, you dolt
16 January 2007
Hrudey's kind of a jerk too
16 January 2007
Memory and artificial intelligence
14 January 2007
Ripping NHL icons new ones
13 January 2007
Brother HL 1440 vs FreeBSD
11 January 2007
Mario the not quite Magnificent
08 January 2007
Sign some D
08 January 2007
2006
Bookmark - Computer Security podcasts
17 December 2006
getmail vs procmail
16 December 2006
On reporting in hockey
13 December 2006
Fans are stupid
12 December 2006
More on Smyth
25 November 2006
Where's the beef - Captain Canada
21 November 2006
Shootouts
20 November 2006
Of mice and men.. Stortini gets the call.
20 November 2006
Windows Security - Process Monitor
12 November 2006
Keyboards
11 November 2006
MacOS NTP
10 November 2006
SuSE redux
08 November 2006
SuSE updating
06 November 2006
Windows TS using TLS/SSL
05 November 2006
Metasploit vs Ubuntu
02 November 2006
Jarnal: note taking
01 November 2006
SLED VMWare image
30 October 2006
Free network security courses?
29 October 2006
VPNs: Hamachi
29 October 2006
Wiki matrix
28 October 2006
Typefaces
28 October 2006
Six to two Ducks?
26 October 2006
Mind Mapping
23 October 2006
Detroit game: 21 October 2006
22 October 2006
What about hockey?
20 October 2006
MSM hates blogs
20 October 2006
Cheap at the price
16 October 2006
Free a/v for Windows?
16 October 2006
Firmware sucks
15 October 2006
No I in team...
14 October 2006
Big Bad Apple
02 October 2006
What do they have to gain?
30 September 2006
Carolina, Columbus
29 September 2006
Ubuntu 6.06.1 alternate installer
21 September 2006
Spyware, or, How I Hate Windows
20 September 2006
Naming vendors
20 September 2006
iPod syncing
15 September 2006
RFA offer sheets
13 September 2006
Brief hockey notes, 12 September
12 September 2006
News on your desktop... great idea or timesink?
08 September 2006
iClickwhat?
29 August 2006
Lombardi vs Stoll
18 August 2006
Argus 3.0 on FreeBSD
16 August 2006
Sean Avery is a dick too
16 August 2006
Ethics of the infantryman
15 August 2006
Patches and security metrics
06 August 2006
I say corps, you say core, he says corpse
29 July 2006
High level: Security vs Ease of Use
27 July 2006
Oilers media advisory, 19 July 2006
19 July 2006
Mike Hudson vs Slats
12 July 2006
Rich Winter, Agent Provocateur
11 July 2006
Clusters and frustrations
11 July 2006
Frustration with hardware
07 July 2006
Two down
05 July 2006
Last on Pronger
04 July 2006
Oilers, post-Pronger
03 July 2006
UFA Feeding Frenzy 2006
03 July 2006
Hockey roundup, 2006 FA season
03 July 2006
Back to Oilers colours
02 July 2006
Nameless
29 June 2006
Pronger the last
28 June 2006
It's official when it's official.
24 June 2006
Hockey families
24 June 2006
Pre-draft 2006 scuttlebutt
24 June 2006
Brindy's contract
23 June 2006
2006 SCF Postscript
20 June 2006
Carolina colours
20 June 2006
Carolina is #1 (2006)
19 June 2006
Game 7, SCF 2006
19 June 2006
Pre-game, G7 of the 2006 SCF
19 June 2006
Game 6 of the 2006 Finals
17 June 2006
RT cleanups
16 June 2006
Primary vs Secondary scoring
16 June 2006
Hockey colours
15 June 2006
Ranks - PSA
14 June 2006
Game 5 of the 2006 Finals
14 June 2006
Fact checking
13 June 2006
Game 4, 2006 SCF
12 June 2006
PGP keys
12 June 2006
Game 3 of the 2006 SCF
10 June 2006
Game 2 of 2006 SCF, vs the Hurricanes
07 June 2006
MA Bergeron
06 June 2006
Air Canada vs WestJet, conclusion
06 June 2006
After Game 1: Goalies
06 June 2006
Game 1 of 2006 SCF, vs the Hurricanes
05 June 2006
Carolina vs Edmonton
03 June 2006
Upgrading Ubuntu 5.10 Breezy Badger to 6.06 Dapper Drake
03 June 2006
Captain Copyright
01 June 2006
Game 5 vs the Ducks
27 May 2006
Game 4 vs the Ducks
25 May 2006
Game 3 vs the Ducks
23 May 2006
Game 2 vs the Ducks
21 May 2006
Game 1 vs the Ducks
19 May 2006
G6 redux
18 May 2006
Game 6 vs the Sharks
17 May 2006
Investigating a compromised Linux host
13 May 2006
Game 4 vs the Sharks
12 May 2006
Game 3 vs the Sharks
10 May 2006
Game 2 vs the Sharks
08 May 2006
Game 1 vs the Sharks
07 May 2006
Round 2, 2006 playoffs
06 May 2006
Life is good... Looking forward to California
03 May 2006
Thoughts from Game 6 vs Detroit
01 May 2006
Thoughts from Game 5 vs Detroit
29 April 2006
Thoughts from Game 4 vs Detroit
28 April 2006
Thoughts from Game 3 vs Detroit
25 April 2006
Thoughts from Game 2
23 April 2006
Outlook
31 March 2006
Thoughts on being a fan
09 February 2006
Downie vs Bertuzzi
02 January 2006
2005
Todd Bertuzzi
23 December 2005
CHL draftees
24 November 2005
2004
Habits
28 December 2004
A reply to the monkey's questions about militaries
25 May 2004
Unselling
27 January 2004
2003
First post.
21 December 2003