http://www.cjc.org/blog Tue, 01 May 2007 13:41:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Nowadays, I seem to get to these posts about a month later. We were in Phoenix in March, one of those spouse-tags-along-to-conference trips. We also went up to see the red rock cliffs of Sedona for a day. As usual, pictures: The area's main places of interest we ... http://www.cjc.org/blog/archives/2007/04/30/phoenix-and-sedona/ I finally got around to upgrading. Much less painful than I thought it would be. http://www.cjc.org/blog/archives/2007/04/25/wordpress-21x/ Given that we were in Key West at the beginning of February, I'd like to blame something sexy like "writer's block" rather than the more pedestrian "laziness" for the long delay in getting this post out. But, yeah, "laziness" is a far better explanation. Cleveland, at the beginning of February, ... http://www.cjc.org/blog/archives/2007/03/16/key-west/ This is the third attempt (Thanksgiving was #2) of the no-knead bread technique popularized by Mark Bittman earlier this month. Going mostly by weight: Flour (370g bread flour, 100g spelt flour) Water (350g) Salt (10g, about 1.75 teaspoons) Yeast (0.25 teaspoons) The approximates the 3 cups of flour to 1.5 cups of water ratio, and resulted ... http://www.cjc.org/blog/archives/2006/11/30/nyt-no-knead-bread/ To use with the Windows telnet server, when something locks up the screen, etc. Microsoft's reference Also, SANS has a write-up of various wmic commands, in particular "wmic process list brief" for the "ps" equivalent, and "wmic process delete" for the "kill -9" equivalent. http://www.cjc.org/blog/archives/2006/11/27/windows-command-line-reference/ Turkey, fresh, about 12lbs from Westside Market, brined and prepared along the lines of this Good Eats recipe, but using a turkey roasting bag. The brining was done in one of those giant XL Ziploc bags. Note that the big Ziploc had a slow leak, and it was ... http://www.cjc.org/blog/archives/2006/11/27/thanksgiving-postmortem-2006/ The previous weekend, we went to Mansfield Prison as part of Grace's local college alumnae seasonal get-together. While we missed the alum group because of a late start, we did go through the annual the Haunted Prison Experience run at the old prison. It's the first time we ... http://www.cjc.org/blog/archives/2006/10/31/mansfield-haunted-prison-experience/ The Big Picture has a pointer to this Google Spreadsheet of a buying versus renting cost comparison: . It's neat, but you have to save a copy to your own Google account before you can modify the values. There are a couple issues, having to do with dependent variables that ... http://www.cjc.org/blog/archives/2006/10/13/google-spreadsheet-of-buying-vs-renting/ An associate of mine was challenged to crack WEP by one of his collegues recently. Somehow, this collegue was unaware that WEP is flawed and subject to very fast cryptanalysis, and believed that 128-bit WEP keys were unbreakable. We picked up two Netgear WG511T PCMCIA cards, got the Auditor's Security ... http://www.cjc.org/blog/archives/2006/10/12/wep-cracking-using-auditors-security-collection-2006-06/ Here's an interesting piece by someone reverse engineering Patsy's pizza. I don't intend to violate warranty/lease/fire codes by disabling the safety features of my oven in order to achieve 800F temperatures, but the dough techniques he discusses are informative. Pizza is bread, and I've started using his "The Wet-Kneading Technique ... http://www.cjc.org/blog/archives/2006/10/10/dough-techniques/