Amazing. I came across this utter trainwreck of a forum thread by way of Bruce Schneier’s blog (it was in his “Crypto Doghouse,” a place reserved for people selling snake-oil security solutions). In the thread, the voices of reason go head-on against the insane ravings of the gibbering loon who developed an XOR-based “secure encryption [...]

I was having some issues with my Linksys WRT54G the other day, so I bit the bullet and installed OpenWRT. It’s great. My AP went from just not working to working perfectly. It has SSH. It doesn’t have a web interface, but it doesn’t have the crappy stock interface, either. It has massive third-party support. [...]

I’ve thought about writing something like this for a while now, but so far haven’t had the impetus to do so. However, an upcoming project at work is going to be a PHP 5 migration. Presenting PHP_Migrate4to5, a tool to automate the grunt work of PHP 4 to 5 migration.

A brief followup on my rant

Great. Bush can now order a preemptive nuclear strike. We’re giving this assclown the bomb? We are lost.