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Now continuing my ongoing saga of trying to get the VIA EPIA 800 board to boot a Linux kernel…

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I wanted to point out a new article that is in my shared RSS section right now on improved clock-skew techniques. When this first came out I heard a lot of talk about how it was too “theoretical” or obscure to be considered much of a threat…

It is important to remember that when buffer overflows really first hit the mainstream, many people also considered it too obscure or difficult to be useful. But now that our understanding of them has grown, we have things like the Metasploit archive that even the script kiddies can cut-and-paste from to their hearts delight.

This research is based on a sound problem - that being that crystal oscillators can vary slightly due to load induced temperature variances. I think it is an exciting topic if only because of the fact that it mixes hardware and software (which I get a big kick out of) but also because the implications to cryptography are very real if it can be reliably leveraged…

I’ve added a new feature here. Sometimes I find things that are interesting, but off topic for the blog. (they fall outside of the technology/hardware/hacking realm or are re-hashes of other people’s work) In order to still share these little gems, but keep the pages here on-topic I’ve added the “My Shared RSS” section on the right-hand sidebar. These are listings of items that I have marked as share-able in my google RSS feed list. Many of them will be quite intriguing little things I’ve found, but have decided (for one reason or another) are better being linked to off site, than me opening a post here on… I hope you will check them out and enjoy…

A funny photo indeed… This latest image from the home page of the NASA Phoenix mission reveals the secret evidence many people have hunted for clues on for so many years. Where is Bigfoot?

Apparently we now know why he has avoided detection for so long. He is obviously an interplanetary travel with a primary residence on Mars and a vacation home here on Earth. This image provides unmistakable evidence of the fact that he (or she, to be fair, since we are pretty sure they do not reproduce asexually) has been on the planet the whole time and has obviously come by to check out the latest lander craft and possibly to help NASA make some repairs here and there. (I mean, come on, do you really think they can fix these landers all the time from the control center, just fiddling on their keyboards)

I can’t wait to see the stories once the *real* conspiracy theorists get ahold of this one…

I will start this by saying I am no audiophile…

I am however, in search of a good audio experience across a wide range of listening preferences. (movies, television, some background music for the occasional house party, etc…) So last night I began my installation/upgrade of my home theater system. The first part consists of putting in new in-ceiling speakers. The condo came with the wiring already run for a surround system, which is pretty nice. But, without having heard a decent set of speakers in about 10 yrs I started by looking around at what was affordable and offered good quality.

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