http://downgrade.org The rantings and insight of a 20 something ethical hacker, coder and IT samurai. Mon, 18 Aug 2008 14:37:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It would be funny if it weren't so damn plausible. :) Diebold Accidentally Leaks Results Of 2008 Election Early http://downgrade.org/2008/08/18/diebold-accidentally-leaks-results-of-2008-election-early/ I got my IPhone the day after the last post I made.  I must admit it was worth the wait and by the far the coolest device ever created by humans. Now all I need is SSH and RDesktop clients for.  They have VNC and mainframe/midrange term-emulation, so it can't be ... http://downgrade.org/2008/07/25/iphone/ My wife and I waited in line early morning the day of the IPhone 3G launch.  By the time we got in the AT&T store they had sold out of all 16gig models so they put them on order for "direct fulfillment". She got the white model and received hers two ... http://downgrade.org/2008/07/18/att-iphone-direct-fulfillment-is-flawed/ Missy and I hopped in the line at our local AT&T store this morning at 7am to try and get ourselves two iPhone 3Gs (16gig).  At this point the line already wrapped around the side of the building.  We finally got into the store at about 11am to find that ... http://downgrade.org/2008/07/11/iphone-3g/ Missy and I started doing home brewing (beer micro-brewing).  Its really a blast and provides us with lots of a high quality and inexpensive beer.  The average 5gal batch costs about $20-25 and yields about 54 (12oz) bottles.  Thats about $0.37 to $0.46 per bottle. Our favorite supplier is Materagaia.  They ... http://downgrade.org/2008/07/01/home-bew/ I installed Windows XP service pack 3 yesterday and found today that wireshark would not detect any of my network interfaces. Reinstalling winpcap fixed it. FYI http://downgrade.org/2008/05/15/windows-xp-sp3-and-winpcap/ irq13: It's in my queue irq13: that word is spelled so weird irq13: queue irq13: queueueueueueueueue ./xysm: its looks so canadian ./xysm: with all the u's ./xysm: favourite ./xysm: colour irq13: Hahah, flappy headed bastards :) ./xysm: im not your buddy guy irq13: Im not a guy buddy ./xysm: see, us canadians, have a good sense of humor, we laugh our ... http://downgrade.org/2008/05/08/crazy-canadians/ Today I left from Battle Creek, MI to Chicago, IL via the Amtrack train. This is my preferred method of travel when going to Chicago as plane trips costs literally 10x as much and are down right scary. If you have ever heard the term “puddle jumper” you ... http://downgrade.org/2008/02/18/traveling-is-a-hoot/ I have to present at a meeting today and spilled coffee on myself. Tied Stain Stick didn't do the trick so I went to the rest room to get the stain out with water. As I was wiping up the coffee I tore open a hang-nail and got blood all ... http://downgrade.org/2008/02/08/luck-o-the-irish/ If you have been living in a cave for the past few months you may not be aware of Comcasts recent practice of "shaping" bit-torrent traffic. Specifically they insert RST packets into, what they believe to be, bit-torrent sessions and forge them to look like they came from the host at ... http://downgrade.org/2008/01/15/comcast-spews-false-information/