Patrick’s weblog, featuring posts dating back to 2002 on topics including technology, open source, networking, and various technical adventures.
The latest update of Fedora from the APT streams appears to break pyPgSQL. This really sucks for me as my research uses this setup. Luckily, I patched the program to understand that a -RH version is okay. Just run this patch against your source archive…
One of the wonderful things about the Internet is how you can easily link to other documents that are relevant to whatever topic you’re preaching about. However, one of the most reprehensible things is the process of hot linking to images served off other people’s…
The Sacramento Bee has a good opinon article written by a county clerk/recorder and UC-Davis Law School faculty member that explain some of the big programs behind the Help America Vote Act and why all these touch screen devices are bad news. It catalogs the…
I’ve been having a good time taking advantage of the Transformiix XSLT processing engine that is part of the newer versions of Mozilla. However, I think I finally ran into something that it breaks on. Here’s what’s going on. I’m dynamically generating some graphics and…
I remember seeing swing when it came out six years ago and thinking about how very cool it looked. But after six years with almost no UI update it was starting to get a little stale. Then I was reading the Open Source Desktop Technology…
I just stubled across a neat enhancement for Firebird. Edit CSS allows you to edit the CSS of a web page on the fly. It’s great for when you want to see either how a web page did something or you want to change something…
First up in session was Ravi Pappu from ThingMagic talking about security and privacy in the EPC network. The first that needs to be made is that the EPC network is going to be some SCARY SHIT. I don’t mean to swear, but if Christian…
This blog entry is a work in progress. Please give me feedback. November 15th, 2003 marked the first RFID Privacy workshop. It was held at the MIT Media Lab and organized by Simson Garfinkel (Ph.D. student and author of Database Nation). Initial impressions were that…
I got back from Boston around 6pm tonight. Took a nap and then caught up on what MythTV got in my absence. For some reason the encoder doesn’t seem to be encoding at the proper bit rate anymore. It means I loose half the space,…
I’m in Boston for the next few days at the RFID Privacy Conference. I’ve never been to Boston before, this should be a bit of an adventure.