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Botnets

Ed Felten has yet another interesting post Why So Little Attention to Botnets? in his blog Freedom to Tinker. Ed does a good job explaining what a botnet is: ‘In this context, a “bot” is a malicious software agent that gets installed on an unsuspecting user’s computer. Bots get onto computers by exploiting security flaws. […]

2006 10 30 About the Internet and the Web
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Beginning of the End?

Here is Olbermann’s take on the Military Commissions Act. Why did the Congress do this?

2006 10 19 Commentary Comments (0)

patriotism

Jim Webb appeared at University of Mary Washington yesterday for a campaign stop, and to build up some support in his hopeful run against Allen. John Edwards also appeared and gave a pretty good presentation. The line I remember most is “It’s time to be patriotic about something else other than war.” His talk focused […]

2006 09 27 Commentary Comments (0)

Notes on classes, September 5, 2006

Third class meetings today. We arrived home at 12:30 this morning from a trip to Santa Fe for the weekend. Things went OK, but a little rocky. CPSC 110 Original list of topics activities wasn’t completed. But that’s OK. I told students about my background and a little about the notion of a programming language. […]

2006 09 05 Teaching Comments (0)

Notes on Classes; August 31, 2006

Second class meetings today. Still feeling my way. CPSC 110 Original list of topics activities wasn’t completed. But that’s OK. I spent some time getting to know the students and hopefully they are getting to know each other a little better. It doesn’t seem that there are more than 1 or 2 who might want […]

2006 08 31 Teaching Comments (0)

Notes on Classes, August 29, 2006

First day of classes today. Things seems to go well. Got students in to the lab the first day. No big glitches. CPSC 110 Gave out instructions for starting to use paprika. A couple of password issues, but we had good support from Bob Gartland and David Dean. Weldon Burt is the lab aide. For […]

2006 08 29 Teaching Comments (0)

Dinner in Brooklyn – August 17, 2006

Our son Karl took us to Ki Sushi for dinner tonight. The meal was wonderful. We started with a seared tuna salad, a grilled eggplant appetizer, and a green salad. This was followed by a plate of fresh sushi flown in from Japan daily and a grilled black cod entree. We ended the meal with […]

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2006 08 17 food
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Green Tomato Chutney

A friend gave us some green tomatoes recently and I made a some green tomato chutney as a variation of the recipe “Green-Tomato Chutney” by Susie Quick. I had some friends over today who tried the chutney and got two requests for the recipe. Here’s what I used and did. Ingredients: 1/2 c packed light-brown […]

2006 07 28 Recipes Comments (0)

Names of the dead as reported July 27, 2006

From the New York Times: The Department of Defense has identified 2,558 American service members who have died since the start of the Iraq war. It confirmed the death of the following American yesterday: SAMSON, Dennis K. Jr., 24, Specialist, Army; Hesperia, Mich.; 101st Airborne Division. The number of dead, 2558, is 93 more than […]

2006 07 27 Commentary Comments (0)

wikiHow

I came across wikiHow through the entry “How to Reduce Your Greenhouse Gas Emissions” that was featured on Google homepage. It interesting to me because of the way a wiki is being used to provide how-to information. You can create an account and contribute in wiki-style to the entries. The pages each carry a discussion […]

2006 07 26 Interesting Web Sites Comments (0)