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The secret history of "about:jwz", "about:mozilla" and the Netscape Throbbers.
I realized recently that while I have written about the history of the about:authors URL, I have never explained the history of the about:jwz easter egg. Well, I guess it's been long enough, so now it...
View ArticlePre-Millennium Tension: The Dali Clock Y2K Easter Egg
It's been over 12 years since I pulled this prank, so I guess it won't really be a spoiler to talk about it now...You kids may have heard about that whole "Y2K" thing, where all the date-manipulating...
View ArticleImageMagick help
Dear Lazyweb, ImageMagick is tormenting me again. Help.I need a single incantation that I can apply to an arbitrary image, be it an RGB JPEG, a CMYK JPEG, a PDF, a PNG, or whatever, and have it resized...
View ArticleWhy I use Safari instead of Firefox
Yesterday I posted a gripe about a particular bug in a particular piece of software I use, and the usual suspects wanted to turn that into a referendum on the healing, cleansing power of Open...
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"Secure Boot" and free software
Interesting, long post on how the hell Linux vendors make their product work now that MICROS~1 has enabled BIOS DRM.(The tl;dr version: running a custom kernel on modern hardware just became rocket...
View ArticleA Generation Lost in the Bazaar
He takes a little while to get going, but the rant about "configure" that starts halfway down is spot-on.Poul-Henning Kamp:Further down the shopping list are repeated applications of the Peter...
View ArticleBypass full-disk encryption and passwords on any powered-on computer via...
Inception is a FireWire physical memory manipulation and hacking tool exploiting IEEE 1394 SBP-2 DMA.The tool can unlock (any password accepted) and escalate privileges to Administrator/root on almost*...
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Mosaic
Someone has patched NCSA Mosaic to run on modern Linux systems (if that's not an oxymoron).I couldn't get it to build on OSX because of Motif (and port install openmotif didn't help). I dug in a bit...
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XScreenSaver 5.21
XScreenSaver 5.21 out now. Just a few minor fixes to the desktop version, really. (Oh and this.) I'm not going to bother rolling a new iOS release for this version.HEY YOU: If you are a Linux user,...
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XScreenSaver 5.22
XScreenSaver 5.22 out now, including for iOS.I wrote a few new ones this time! It's been a while. There are also a bunch of bug fixes.In particular, I think that the OSX binaries should run on any...
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XScreenSaver 5.23
XScreenSaver 5.23 out now, including for iOS.I think that at this point, all of the OSX savers should be just as fast as their X11 equivalents. XCopyArea has finally been beaten in to submission,...
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BART: Powered By Dali Clock
A local operative reports in with this important information: It seems BART has some Linux image that they push out to laptops in the station operator booths. They are all running dali clock!
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XScreenSaver 5.24
XScreenSaver 5.24 out now. There are a few minor fixes, but the big change is that it now has an auto-updater. After you've installed 5.24, it will let you know when a subsequent release is available...
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Band releases album as kernel module
Cycles Per Instruction - The Kernel Module EditionWelcome to the most unnecessarily complicated netcat album release format yet.In this repository, you will be able to compile your own kernel module,...
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The awful thing about getting it right the first time is that nobody realizes...
Ubuntu security problem in the lock screenI am running Ubuntu 14.04 with all the packages updated. When the screen is locked with password, if I hold ENTER after some seconds the screen freezes and the...
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XScreenSaver 5.27
XScreenSaver 5.27 out now. A couple new hacks this time, and a bunch of performance improvements and bug fixes, plus support for multithreading. Currently only the analogtv hacks and interference are...
View Articleglasshole.sh
Find and kick Google Glass devices from your local wireless network.Requires 'beep', 'arp-scan', 'aircrack-ng' and a GNU/Linux host. Put on a BeagleBone black or Raspberry Pi. Plug in a good USB...
View ArticleXKeyCaps: A word I thought I'd never hear again.
A correspondent writes:You know how [in 1991] you wrote XKeyCaps and saved a generation of caps-control switchers from the horrors of xmodmap? And you know how you let XKeyCaps die, partly on account...
View ArticleiCloud from command line
Dear Lazyweb,Is there a way to upload a JPEG into an iCloud photo gallery from the command line on a Linux machine, without involving any OSX or iOS devices?Pleas note the specificity of this question.
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