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Entries for week beginning May 11, 2008

May 17, 2008

I Love Stars

Lightweight menu-bar app for OSX which displays, and lets you edit, the star rating for the current track in iTunes.

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May 16, 2008

Irn-Bru: If

Excellent advert from Irn-Bru: A staggeringly accurate glimpse into the Scottish psyche.

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The Best of "Manny Being Manny"

ESPN’s Baseball Tonight runs down some of the best WTF?! Manny moments.

May 15, 2008

Debian OpenSSL Predictable PRNG Toys

More details on the Debian openssl patch farrago. Important point: Every sysadmin needs to scan their boxes (not just Debian users) to find any compromisable .authorized_keys

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US Trailer for 'Life on Mars'

Preview clip of the US version of Life on Mars. Getting past the generic music and cheesy voiceover, this looks like it has the potential to get the right mix between the original’s storyline and 70s Americana. Looking forward to seeing more.

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May 14, 2008

The Debian SSL fubar farrago - some light perspective

If you have a Debian or Ubuntu box and used it to generate an SSH key in the last couple of years, due to a rather heinous bug, there’s a high chance you have one of roughly 260,000 keys.

To put this in perspective, if your account was protected by a 4 lower-case-character password, it would be harder to brute-force access (264 = 456,976).

For the sake of the internet, follow the instructions to update the keys on your servers forthwith.

UPS: Tracking Information

UPS: Tracking Information

Nice work UPS. The package Amazon overnighted me last night? Has been delivered in 2006. Now that is speedy delivery.

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XBMC on OS X

Port of the XBox Media Center to OS X. Works with the Apple Remote, making it more elegant than my usual VLC + Sofa Control combination. Looks good.

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Brand new Google Reader for iPhone

Lovely AJAXy enhancements to Google Reader make it a wicked quality experience on the iPhone.

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May 12, 2008

Things younger than John McCain

The state of Alaska, the polio vaccine, and both of Barack Obama’s parents are younger than John McCain.

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SlideShare: Ignite Web 2.0 Expo SF II

The slide decks from the recent Ignite night, synced up to recordings of the presentations. Each is a mere five minutes long, and I highly recommend “By the time I finish this talk, everyone were will want to run a marathon”, “Snarkatron” and “Giant Monsters”.

tms - Command line client for Time Machine backups

Command line tool for interrogating and diffing Time Machine backups.

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About This Site

This is an archive of groovmother.com, the old blog run by Rod Begbie — A Scottish geek who lives in San Francisco, CA.

I'm the co-founder of Sōsh, your handy-dandy guide for things to do in San Francisco this weekend.