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    <title>Hide solved ArcSight support tickets with GreaseMonkey</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://duksta.org/archives/2010/07/08/hide_solved_arc/" />
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    <published>2010-07-08T12:28:32Z</published>
    <updated>2010-07-08T12:35:57Z</updated>
    
    <summary>Since I work for an MSSP managing ArcSight devices for our clients, I open a lot of support tickets with ArcSight. Their support website leaves much to be desired, especially the fact that you can&apos;t filter out closed tickets from...</summary>
    <author>
        <name>John</name>
        <uri>http://duksta.org</uri>
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        <category term="Misc Stuff" />
    
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        <![CDATA[<p>Since I work for an MSSP managing ArcSight devices for our clients, I open a lot of support tickets with ArcSight. Their support website leaves much to be desired, especially the fact that you can't filter out closed tickets from your view of your support cases. The following <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/748/">GreaseMonkey</a> script does just that.</p>

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// @name           Hide ArcSight Solved Tickets
// @namespace      http://duksta.org/userscripts/hideArcSightSolvedTickets
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// Instructions: 
//
// Install GreaseMonkey - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/748/
// Install this script
// Apply it to "https://arcsight.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/arcsight.cfg/php/enduser/myq_ilp.php*"
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<entry>
    <title>Firefox 3.6 - Opening new tabs where they should be</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://duksta.org/archives/2010/02/23/firefox_36_-_op/" />
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    <id>tag:duksta.org,2010://1.69</id>
    
    <published>2010-02-23T15:28:00Z</published>
    <updated>2010-07-08T12:22:30Z</updated>
    
    <summary>[Oops. Looks like I drafted this back in February and forgot to post it. Here it is now.] If any of you have upgraded to Firefox 3.6, you may have noticed an annoying change to how new tabs get opened....</summary>
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        <name>John</name>
        <uri>http://duksta.org</uri>
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        <![CDATA[<p>[Oops. Looks like I drafted this back in February and forgot to post it. Here it is now.]</p>

<p>If any of you have upgraded to Firefox 3.6, you may have noticed an annoying change to how new tabs get opened. Instead of opening as the rightmost tab in your tab bar, they get opened just to the right of the page you're on. If this new feature annoys the hell out of you like it does me you can restore the old behavior like this:</p>


<ul>
<li>Enter 'about:config' in your location bar.</li>
<li>Accept the warning about possibly breaking stuff</li>
<li>Filter for 'browser.tabs.insertRelatedAfterCurrent'</li>
<li>Double click that entry to set it to 'false'</li>
</ul>



<p>Done. Tab open where you've come to expect them to open, all the way on the right.</p>]]>
        
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<entry>
    <title>Nokia e71 Bug Report - Phonebook match fail</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://duksta.org/archives/2009/09/05/nokia_e71_bug_r/" />
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    <published>2009-09-05T13:01:57Z</published>
    <updated>2009-09-05T13:06:48Z</updated>
    
    <summary>Dear Nokia: I filed this report via the &apos;email support&apos; page on your website. Hopefully you&apos;ll fix this. I can, of course, work around it with judicious data entry sanitization, but I shouldn&apos;t have to. Bug Report: Phone book match...</summary>
    <author>
        <name>John</name>
        <uri>http://duksta.org</uri>
    </author>
    
        <category term="Gear" />
    
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        <![CDATA[<p>Dear Nokia:<br/>

I filed this report via the 'email support' page on your website. Hopefully you'll fix this. I can, of course, work around it with judicious data entry sanitization, but I shouldn't have to.
</p>

<pre>
Bug Report: 
Phone book match fails for incoming calls and SMS 
messages if phone book entry contains dashes

Version Info:
300.21.012
18-06-2009
RM-346
Nokia E71-1 (27)

Details:
When a phone book phone number entry contains dashes 
(and possibly when it starts with a +), the calling (or texting) 
party name from the phone book is not matched properly. 
It seems that there's a regex failure.

Steps to reproduce:
Enter phone book entry in the form +1-NPA-NXX-NNNN. 
Receive call and text from that number. Observe that the 
entry is not matched properly.

Desired Behavior:
The lookup algorithm should strip out the dashes before 
matching to the phone book entries.

Other Notes:
This worked properly on my E61i. You might want to check 
that code tree to see what changed between releases.
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<entry>
    <title>Breadboard Template</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://duksta.org/archives/2009/06/13/breadboard_temp/" />
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    <id>tag:duksta.org,2009://1.66</id>
    
    <published>2009-06-14T01:42:03Z</published>
    <updated>2009-06-14T01:53:10Z</updated>
    
    <summary> In preparation for the Arduino Class I&apos;m teaching this month at AS220 Labs, I made this breadboard template in Inkscape to make it easier to layout circuits for the presentations. I figure this will be useful to others, so...</summary>
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        <name>John</name>
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        <![CDATA[<p><img alt="breadboard.png" src="http://duksta.org/electronics/breadboard.png" width="410" height="234" /></p>

<p>In preparation for the <a href="http://as220.org/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=23&products_id=174">Arduino Class</a> I'm teaching this month at AS220 Labs, I made this breadboard template in Inkscape to make it easier to layout circuits for the presentations.</p>

<p>I figure this will be useful to others, so you can grab the SVG <a href="http://duksta.org/electronics/breadboard.svg">here</a>. Enjoy!</p>
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<entry>
    <title>Building Statically Linked Binaries with make on Linux/Unix</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://duksta.org/archives/2009/06/10/building_static/" />
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    <id>tag:duksta.org,2009://1.65</id>
    
    <published>2009-06-10T13:34:41Z</published>
    <updated>2009-06-10T13:45:54Z</updated>
    
    <summary>Posting this mostly as a reminder to myself for the next time I have to do this. For those who don&apos;t know, a statically linked binary is an executable that does not require any support libraries. All the required support...</summary>
    <author>
        <name>John</name>
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        <![CDATA[<p>Posting this mostly as a reminder to myself for the next time I have to do this.</p>

<p>For those who don't know, a statically linked binary is an executable that does not require any support libraries. All the required support libraries get included in the binary itself. This results in a binary that will run on any system of the right CPU type (i386, x86_64, ppc, etc.) The downside of this is that the resulting binary is going to be quite large. If you're doing forensics on a system, it's always handy to have a set of system utilities (ls, ps, sh, chown, chmod, netstat, vi, cp, rm, mkdir, rmdir, etc) that you have built yourself as statically linked binaries so you can trust them in case a system is root kitted.</p>

<p>Normally, when you download a tarball of source code, you'll do the standard "configure; make; make install" to build it. If you want a statically linked binary, replace the plain "make" with:</p>

<pre>
make SHARED=0 CC='gcc -static'
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<p>&nbsp;</p>]]>
        
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<entry>
    <title>Sage Flower Jelly</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://duksta.org/archives/2009/05/31/sage_jelly/" />
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    <id>tag:duksta.org,2009://1.64</id>
    
    <published>2009-05-31T23:20:21Z</published>
    <updated>2009-05-31T23:28:35Z</updated>
    
    <summary> Besides being a computer geek, I&apos;m also a bit of a foodie. I was doing a little yardwork today, planting some plants, weeding, and cleaning up our overgrown herb garden. After trimming all the blooms off the chives, I...</summary>
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<p>Besides being a computer geek, I'm also a bit of a foodie. I was doing a little yardwork today, planting some plants, weeding, and cleaning up our overgrown herb garden. After trimming all the blooms off the chives, I started in to do the same on the sage, as that had gone and bloomed. Thinking to myself that sage was tasty and edible and that its flower must be as well, I tasted one of the sage flowers. I was overtaken by this delicious subtle blueberryish flavor. I then proceeded to trim back all the sage blooms and took them inside. I plucked one off and gave it to my wife to try. She thought it was tasty too, so we spent the afternoon making jelly out of them. What you see above is a portion of the process.</p>]]>
        
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<entry>
    <title>Meggy Unboxing</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://duksta.org/archives/2009/05/30/meggy_unboxing_1/" />
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    <published>2009-05-30T12:15:04Z</published>
    <updated>2009-06-02T20:32:34Z</updated>
    
    <summary> I&apos;d been wanting to pickup a Meggy Jr from the fine folks at Evil Mad Scientist Labs for a while. When I saw that the MakerShed had them on sale last month as they were cleaning out inventory in...</summary>
    <author>
        <name>John</name>
        <uri>http://duksta.org</uri>
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        <category term="Electronics" />
    
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<p>I'd been wanting to pickup a <a href="http://www.evilmadscientist.com/article.php/meggyjr">Meggy Jr</a> from the fine folks at <a href="http://www.evilmadscientist.com/">Evil Mad Scientist Labs</a> for a while. When I saw that the <a href="http://www.makershed.com/">MakerShed</a> had them on sale last month as they were cleaning out inventory in preparation for <a href="http://makerfaire.com/">Maker Faire</a>, I decided that it was time to spend the cash and pick one up. Then I saw that they had free shipping for orders over $100 and I was reminded of the quote from Contact: "First rule in government spending: why build one when you can have two at twice the price?" The first thing I was to code up for it is a Battleship game, so I would need two anyway.</p>

<p>When I built the first one a couple of weeks ago, I was so excited that I dug right into it and built it right up. This time, I figured I'd do some unboxing shots since the packaging is very well done and downright hysterical. Unfortunately, they're kind of blurry because I was using my phone camera.</p>

<p>Choice bag labels are as follows:<br />
<ul><br />
	<li>Electronics Goodies</li><br />
	<li>Pointy Parts</li><br />
	<li>Giblets Bag</li><br />
	<li>ALL YOUR BASE RESISTORS ARE BELONG TO THIS BAG</li><br />
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<entry>
    <title>Overhaul</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://duksta.org/archives/2009/05/27/overhaul/" />
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    <published>2009-05-28T02:45:00Z</published>
    <updated>2009-05-28T03:09:19Z</updated>
    
    <summary>I&apos;ve given this site a much overdue overhaul in terms of design. Along with this, I plan to actually start posting here on a more regular basis, as my friends and colleagues like to chide me about why I keep...</summary>
    <author>
        <name>John</name>
        <uri>http://duksta.org</uri>
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        <![CDATA[<p>I've given this site a much overdue overhaul in terms of design. Along with this, I plan to actually start posting here on a more regular basis, as my friends and colleagues like to chide me about why I keep a site if don't post anything to it. This should be the impetus to actually do so.</p>]]>
        
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<entry>
    <title>Ice Cream Trucks</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://duksta.org/archives/2008/08/23/ice_cream_truck/" />
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    <published>2008-08-23T08:43:30Z</published>
    <updated>2008-08-23T09:16:54Z</updated>
    
    <summary>My neighborhood is filthy with ice cream trucks. During the summer, it&apos;s not uncommon to see four to six of them roaming the streets from noon to 8pm. Generally, I don&apos;t have a problem with them. I like ice cream....</summary>
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        <name>John</name>
        <uri>http://duksta.org</uri>
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        <![CDATA[<p>My neighborhood is filthy with ice cream trucks. During the summer, it's not uncommon to see four to six of them roaming the streets from noon to 8pm. Generally, I don't have a problem with them. I like ice cream. I also like our Rhode Island favorite, frozen lemonade, which they all sell. What I do have a problem with is the way they announce their presence.</p> 

<p>It used to be that ice cream trucks would ring a loud bell to call the children to the curb. There still is one in the neighborhood that does that, but for the most part they have these <a href="http://www.autobarn.net/wol336.html">crappy musical horns</a>. Those things should be banned for a multitude of reasons. First off, they sound like shit. Second, they have Christmas music built in. Third, these dumb asses driving the ice cream trucks don't bother to exclude the Christmas songs from the playlist.</p>

<p>Don't get me wrong, I like a good Christmas carol in season. I seriously do not need to hear them from mid-May through late-September. I fear that all this overexposure to them may ruin them for me come the holiday season. Only time will tell. In the mean time, I'd like all the ice cream truck drivers of Providence to start playing <a href="http://www.wired.com/entertainment/music/news/2007/07/icecream_music">Michael Hearst's</a> <a href="http://www.songsforicecreamtrucks.com/">Songs for Ice Cream Trucks</a>.</p>]]>
        
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<entry>
    <title>Over the Air HDTV - My interview with WJAR</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://duksta.org/archives/2007/05/09/over_the_air_hd/" />
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    <published>2007-05-10T01:10:20Z</published>
    <updated>2007-05-10T09:46:13Z</updated>
    
    <summary>I got interviewed by our local NBC affiliate, WJAR 10, about a month ago for a segment on over the air (OTA) HDTV. It aired last night and apparently again tonight because they got so many calls about it. It...</summary>
    <author>
        <name>John</name>
        <uri>http://duksta.org</uri>
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        <![CDATA[<p>I got interviewed by our local NBC affiliate, WJAR 10, about a month ago for a segment on over the air (OTA) HDTV. It aired last night and apparently again tonight because they got so many calls about it. It was a lot of fun being the technology evangelist for OTA HDTV for Rhode Island.</p>

<p>First, here's the link to WJAR's page for the segment, where you can watch the video.</p>

<p><a href="http://www.turnto10.com/northeast/jar/business/consumer_reports.apx.-content-articles-JAR-2007-05-08-0027.html">How to Watch HDTV for Free</a></p>

<p>Not bad, huh? I was a little nervous and forgot to mention a couple of things during the interview. While I did mention that I get all the Boston stations with my OTA antenna, I forgot to note that Cox doesn't carry <strong>any</strong> of them, whether in standard def or high def. Also, despite what the operations guy from Cox said, you can totally tell the difference between the recompressed HD signal on cable and the pure OTA signal.</p>

<p>For the most part, 98% of what's on regular cable is crap. I will admit that I love the original series on HBO and Showtime like Deadwood, Rome, Weeds, Six Feet Under, etc. I see them when they come out on DVD. I like watching a whole season of something in one shot anyway. Except for those few series, how many times can you watch Beverly Hills Cop on HBO? There are also a few of those reality competition shows on Bravo (Top Chef, Top Design, Project Runway) that we don't get to see live. But if we're really dying to see them, we can always get them from the iTunes store.</p>

<p>When you figure that I'd pay about $100 per month for the pleasure of having all that entertainment piped into my house by Cox every month, I'm way ahead of the game by going OTA for network television and then buying everything else a la carte.</p>]]>
        
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<entry>
    <title>Playing in the dirt</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://duksta.org/archives/2006/06/05/playing_in_the_dirt/" />
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    <published>2006-06-05T18:06:54Z</published>
    <updated>2006-06-05T18:17:25Z</updated>
    
    <summary> I spent the better part of yesterday digging up about 24 square feet of the side yard to make room for a raised bed garden. Late in the afternoon, a friend stopped by and helped with installing the raised...</summary>
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        <name>John</name>
        <uri>http://duksta.org</uri>
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<p>I spent the better part of yesterday digging up about 24 square feet of the side yard to make room for a raised bed garden. Late in the afternoon, a friend stopped by and helped with installing the raised bed frames and getting them level. I'm pretty sore today in places where I forgot I had muscles.</p>

<p>Today I've got to go get a whole boatload of peat moss to fluff up the soil. Our soil is really sticky and clay like.</p>]]>
        
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<entry>
    <title>It Doesn&apos;t Suck</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://duksta.org/archives/2006/04/12/it_doesnt_suck/" />
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    <published>2006-04-12T20:01:41Z</published>
    <updated>2006-04-12T23:05:29Z</updated>
    
    <summary>I think that it&apos;s funny that Bare Bones Software (the makers of BBedit) have registered &quot;It Doesn&apos;t Suck&quot; as a trademark. Link...</summary>
    <author>
        <name>John</name>
        <uri>http://duksta.org</uri>
    </author>
    
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        <![CDATA[<p>I think that it's funny that Bare Bones Software (the makers of BBedit) have registered "It Doesn't Suck" as a trademark.</p>

<p><a href="http://tarr.uspto.gov/servlet/tarr?regser=serial&entry=78146035">Link</a><br />
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<entry>
    <title>Double Yolk</title>
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    <published>2006-04-09T16:05:02Z</published>
    <updated>2006-04-09T19:18:42Z</updated>
    
    <summary>I got a pleasant surprise this morning while I was making french toast for breakfast. The first egg I cracked had double yolks. I liked the look of it so much, I had to take a picture. The really neat...</summary>
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        <name>John</name>
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        <![CDATA[<p>I got a pleasant surprise this morning while I was making french toast for breakfast. The first egg I cracked had double yolks. I liked the look of it so much, I had to take a picture. The really neat part was the way the two yolks were all squished together coming out of the egg and then slowly separated into what you see in the top of the picture.</p>

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<entry>
    <title>Online Rebate Submission - It&apos;s About Time!</title>
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    <published>2006-02-04T18:13:15Z</published>
    <updated>2006-02-04T21:37:50Z</updated>
    
    <summary> So... I went to Staples this morning to pick up some DVD-Rs. Pretty routine trip; run in, grab DVD-Rs, stand in line, check out. While I was in line, I noticed that they had TurboTax sitting there in a...</summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p><img alt="easyrebate_logo_new.gif" src="http://duksta.org/archives/easyrebate_logo_new.gif" width="100" height="62" /><br />
So... I went to <a href="http://staples.com">Staples</a> this morning to pick up some DVD-Rs. Pretty routine trip; run in, grab DVD-Rs, stand in line, check out. While I was in line, I noticed that they had TurboTax sitting there in a POS display. I thought to myself, "Better get that too, as I think we have all the various and assorted tax information now and it would be nice to figure out if we're going to owe or get a refund." Apparently there is a "rebate" deal where you get a $10 Staples gift card with the purchase of TurboTax. I paid for my goods, got the rebate receipt and then waited a bit as the cashier asked the other cashier if she had any of the "Easy Rebate" bag inserts. I get all the paperwork, shove it all in the bag and go off to run my other errands.</p>

<p>Later on, I get home and check out the receipts and such. Much to my amazement, Staples has actually made it easy for you to file for rebates now. It seems that now on any Staples rebate offers, there will be an offer code and an Easy Rebate ID code. To file for your rebate, you simply go to <a href="http://stapleseasyrebates.com">stapleseasyrebates.com</a>, enter the two codes and fill in your mailing address info. Ta Da! Done. No stamps, no envelopes, no bullshit. This is so easy, my friend <a href="http://kvet.ch">Emory</a> would even use it, and he <strong>never</strong> files rebates. Let's hope that everyone else follows suit.</p>]]>
        
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<entry>
    <title>ShmooCon review</title>
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    <published>2006-01-17T13:53:41Z</published>
    <updated>2006-01-17T23:52:08Z</updated>
    
    <summary>I spent this past weekend at ShmooCon. Getting there was a complete pain in the ass, as National airport was apparently fogged in for the better part of Friday. I was slated to take an 11:55 am flight down, which...</summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>I spent this past weekend at <a href="http://shmoocon.org">ShmooCon</a>. Getting there was a complete pain in the ass, as National airport was apparently fogged in for the better part of Friday. I was slated to take an 11:55 am flight down, which was delayed until 12:25 and then canceled. The fine folks at US Airways then rebooked me onto a 3:30 flight, which didn't actually get off the ground until about 6pm. I finally arrived at the hotel around 8pm, missing all of Friday's proceedings, which I'll have to watch when the Shmoo release the video torrents.</p>

<p>Saturday was chock full of interesting sessions, starting with Jennifer Granick's talk on FISA, CALEA and Executive "privilege". After the room split break, I attended Fyodor's talk on nmap. Nothing like learning tips and tricks for a tool straight from the mouth of the creator. From there I rolled into <a href="http://elonka.com">Elonka Dunin's</a> presentation on Kryptos and the Cyrillic Projector. Elonka is an excellent speaker and has an obvious obsession with code breaking.</p>

<p>After lunch, I caught Abend's presentation on magnetic card reading and emulation. This was an awesome talk on a topic in which I've always been interested. Thanks to my super-smart question asking ability, I was gifted with a <a href="http://www.bgmicro.com/prodinfo.asp?prodid=ACS1080">surplus magnetic card reader</a> of my very own. Of course, now I have to build an interface for it.</p>

<p>I filled the rest of my afternoon with bits and pieces of Lance James' talk on Trojans, Botnets and Malware, Richard Bejtlich's talk on Sguil, and Shawn Merdinger's talk on WiFi VoIP phones. I also spent a little time playing Galaga in the hacker arcade, but not enough to accumulate enough tickets to get a prize. Next year, I'll have to build a game for the arcade, as the pickings were a little sparse.</p>

<p>Sunday was a short day with my main interest being the lock picking talk given by Deviant Ollam. The Shmoo folks were quite kind in giving him two hours for the talk instead of the usual one hour slot allocated to everyone else. It was an awesome talk, and I'm not just saying that because I won a t-shirt and a Swiss Army knife/USB memory drive. After that there was a room join and we all got to enjoy J0hnny L0ng's gut busting talk on 'Hacking Hollywood', in which he reviewed just how l33t the folks in Hollywood are when it comes to all this cool computer stuff. After that I had to bail, as I had a 3:30 flight back home. I probably could have managed to stick around for the last half hour, but then I would have been fighting with everyone else for a cab to the airport.</p>

<p>Thoughts for next year. Fly down the day before and bum around the city instead of getting stuck at the airport all day on the first day of the Con. I'll also plan on staying an extra day so I don't have to rush out before everything is over.</p>]]>
        
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