Just a lame post before crashing. This is my traditional Friday wear (seen here in my old office). Scotty takes precedence when engaging in hardware hacks and Spock it is when coding. It’s a bit too much I know. But I don’t give a damn! I get superpowers, especially when putting the blue one on. Debugging always turns out more efficient 😀 Click on the image for full view.
My Friday Wardrobe
Good night folks and till tomorrow.
I just bought Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World’s Most Wanted Hacker by Kevin Mitnick. I read this book in one sitting over a few days back in a local book shop. It took six coffees (870 mg of Caffeine approx.), eleven cancer sticks (6.6 mg of Nicotine), death stare from a totally annoyed waitress and six and a half hours to finish. First, I decided to read just the first chapter and then come back later, but I was so hooked, it was very difficult to put it down. It’s an absolute classic. For those of you who have followed the entire Mitnick story or just interested in security and social engineering (who hasn’t done that? :D), this book is a definite read. That’s why I bought the book. It actually reads like a crime novel with a lot of twists and turns, and coming from the horse’s mouth, how can one ignore it? If you are thinking about buying this book, stop thinking and buy it immediately.
Ghost in the Wires by Kevin Mitnick
On a related note, all the while reading the book, I couldn’t avoid thinking about creating a terminal color scheme based on the colors on the cover. I will put it out in a couple of days. Call me weird, but that’s me. These days, anywhere I see colors my brain automatically goes overboard trying to guess the HTML code. Should I see a shrink?
In honor of this book I am gonna wear one of my old T shirts tomorrow.
Social Engineering Specialist
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While we are on the topic of golden bikinis, how about this?
Jabba the Hutt's Bachelor Party
Opinion – Trekkers, Jedi, Warslinge?
I had completely forgotten about this. This is freaking awesome! Big time nerd alert! FedCon is an annual Star Trek and Sci-Fi convention that is held in Düsseldorf, here in Germany. It is Europe’s largest Trekker Convention. This time around, the event will be held between 17th of May and 20th of May. The guest list this year is a total win! I got my special tickets a while back. This will be my first FedCon experience. And by looking at the list, it will turn out to be a memorable experience. William Freaking Shatner is in the house, and so is Macgyver! Chekov, Data, Riker, Dr. Crusher, Gowran, Martok, Doral and many more.
I am hyper excited to see the Captain. I have never seen him live. I am a big fan of Macgyver/O’Neill as well. Let the party begin. My birthday falls on the 18th of May and it certainly would be the greatest birthday party ever! Period! Click on the image for details.
Nerd Alert - FedCon
Can’t wait until 17th May. Star Trek FTW! Sorry, Princess Leia. True, you adorn my wall with your life size golden bikini poster and all, but truth be told, Star Wars can’t hold a candle to Star Trek.
I just had a look at my stats page and I see that a few people come here searching for DragonFly BSD and TWM. I believe, I mentioned briefly about TWM before. Anyway, let me add a bit more. I still use DragonFly BSD on one of my rigs at home. Hammer is pretty awesome. I don’t have any other WM running on that box. It’s just good old TWM. I even had DragonFly BSD running successfully on my EEE 1000H sometime back. It was solid, wireless performance was a bit troubling though, but I had a minor hack to automatically reattach if the driver gave up. I had this screenshot from my EEE over at devart and I am posting it right here again. If you need something to be resurrected, like my old configs, etc., do comment. TWM is pretty easy to configure and with vdesk, virtual desktops are child’s play. Anyway, click on the image for full view.
TWM on DragonFly BSD powered EEE 1000H
I will push this twm theme to my github tonight. If anything else is required, please let me know.
Reflections on the Strange and the Not so Strange 