The Meditative Coder

Good for you!  You're taking the advice of experts and clicking "Generate Password", resulting in 10 characters of gibberish. ...

I got to thinking about passwords again today. I wrote my own program to produce XKCD-style passwords from a list of 2126 common words, ...

Never too old to learn.  :-) There are lots of multicast example programs out there, so I won't try to compete with them.  But I did r...

I'm not a security researcher, and I don't follow the subject very closely.  But here is an interesting read by the person who slowe...

I got a phishing email.  So what?  I get lots of phishing emails.  Why blog about this one? Well, it's at least a *little* differen...

UPDATE: after upgrading the IOS our "MDF" switch, this problem went away.  None of my readers (all 2 of them?) have reported seei...

Found a nice blog post that talks about tuning the Linux network stack: http://blog.packagecloud.io/eng/2016/06/22/monitoring-tuning-linux...

I realize that this is a technical blog without many followers, but I'm really getting into a new album and wanted to share.  If you...

As I've mentioned, I am the proud father of a C.H.I.P. single-board computer.  I've been playing with it for a while, and have also ...

Pop quiz time! When you use snprintf() instead of sprintf() , are you:    A. Writing code that proactively detects bugs.    B. Writing ...

Many people despair at today's "throw away" society.  If you don't want it, just throw it away. Programmers know this is...

So, let's say you're sending data on a TCP socket faster than the receiver can unload it. The socket buffers fill up. Then what ha...

Ever since I was *very* young, I've been interested in science and technology.  At some point in my teens, maybe 40 years ago, I wanted ...

UPDATE: C.H.I.P. is dead Or rather, the company is dead.  I will keep my CHIP content laying around, but I won't be doing much with it...

We just discovered that under a somewhat unlikely set of circumstances, Microsoft's Windows 7 (SP 1) will corrupt outgoing UDP datagram...