Intrepid Blog

A few thoughts — 313 posts from 2004 to 2021.

2021

13 Nov Sizing Up Post-Quantum Signatures

2015

2013

16 Apr Simple Elliptic Curve Cryptography in Python compatible with seccure
29 Jan msgpack for pypy
26 Jan PyPy 2.0-beta1 for Debian Squeeze amd64

2012

2011

8 Oct Split ape/flac with cue into oggs on Linux
6 Jun Radboud Universiteit Nieuws
4 Jun Bertha: no-nonsense blob storage
30 Apr Lion display settings refresh-rate bug
16 Mar 802.1X configuration profile on Lion (Mac OS X 10.7)
10 Mar MacPorts on Lion (Mac OS X 10.7)

2010

2009

16 Dec Unique followers on Twitter
1 Nov Normul
24 Oct Cantor never bores (1)
10 Sep Bond against Loanwords
31 Aug 21
27 Aug Windows 7 Sins
7 Aug Twitter and Facebook
1 Jul PijsMarietje
22 Jun Damned DOM (1)
19 Jun Unicode to ASCII (1)
30 May Django annoyances: no reverse select_related
29 Apr Javascript’s stupid Date constructor
19 Apr GStreamer: accurate duration
24 Mar Spacing up- and downarrow properly for up- and downsets
6 Feb Fosdem (3)
29 Jan Timestamp 1234567890
1 Jan Aperitif for order
1 Jan 2009

2008

27 Dec On-demand singleton for Python
21 Dec The Cuckoo Hashtable
26 Nov If I’d own a botnet… (1)
10 Oct Music Animation Machine
19 Sep Vim Essentials
31 Aug 20
26 Jul Wacken (2)
22 Jul iPhone WiFi weirdness
18 Jul iPhone (0)
8 Jul PyX
8 Jul git‘s versus svn‘s storage efficiency
29 Jun find: invalid predicate `-delete'
29 Jun “waiting for x server to begin accepting connections”
26 May cyv: syncing git and svn
23 May Don’t forget /etc/init.d/hibernate-cleanup
15 Apr Benchmarking CouchDB (2)
15 Apr On the App Engine lock-in
2 Apr Benchmarking CouchDB (1)
30 Mar CouchDB document creation performance
11 Mar Interrupting a select without a timeout
8 Mar wlan0_rename
7 Mar X61s (2)
6 Mar X61s (1)
26 Feb ssmtp segfault in sendmail on Gentoo
25 Feb Fosdem (2)
22 Feb Fosdem (1)
12 Feb Codeyard 2008
31 Jan Evolving the Object Paradigm
23 Jan Bye bye Reiser4
20 Jan Linux 2.6.24-bw-r34
1 Jan 2008

2007

28 Dec Tickle
24 Dec Merry Christmas
20 Dec linux 2.6.24-bw-r12
17 Dec Java crashing on xcb_xlib_unlock.
8 Dec rebuild-scm-ebuilds
8 Dec CaCert.org
10 Nov Virtual packages in python
3 Nov Xkcd
22 Oct Rome
13 Oct Ulrich Drepper on Memory
23 Sep Stupid PHP (1) (Strings are faster than Arrays)
2 Sep Stupid IE (2)
2 Sep Stupid IE (1)
30 Aug 19
14 Aug The (or at least a better) Solution to Spam
13 Aug Section 202c of the German computer crime laws
6 Aug bas@fsfe.org
27 Jul Wacken
12 Jul linux 2.6.22-bw-r1
11 Jul “Nothing to hide”
2 Jul Online Cycle Detection in Directed Graphs
25 Jun Xgl with RandR 1.3 and Ati
15 Jun Graduated
11 Jun Syslets and other untrusted kernelspace programming
10 Jun Linux 2.6.21-bw-r1
7 Jun Upgrading wordpress with git
28 May Elastic tabstops plugins for gedit
6 May The Future of the Internet
28 Apr linux 2.6.21-bw
21 Apr Virtual package for your python application
15 Apr This is How We Catch You Downloading
11 Apr Ruby and parenthesis
1 Apr C&C 3 on Linux
3 Mar The Filesystem Failed. Part I: introduction
1 Mar Watermarking media
25 Feb Reiser4 for linux 2.6.20
11 Feb Internal Microphone
8 Feb 4 inches
3 Feb Codeyard Community Day
2 Feb ati-drivers-8.33.6 for Gentoo
1 Feb Intel’s free literature
30 Jan Python Imaging Library
3 Jan Hashcash 3.2

2006

27 Dec Rotating Beryl cube using HDAPS on a Thinkpad
27 Dec XGL take 2
25 Dec Avoiding multiple lock dead-locks by memory addresses
13 Dec (auto)mounting removable media as user
9 Dec Reiser4 for 2.6.19
8 Dec Disappearing backgrounds in IE.
3 Dec Long mySQL keys
3 Dec md5(microtime())
27 Nov A loud present
20 Nov P’tit-doux
19 Nov Simple Branch Prediction Analysis
9 Nov E-Mail server issues
27 Oct RTFM, where?
27 Oct Reiser4 on 2.6.18
17 Oct Fallacies (1)
15 Oct Good and bad CAPTCHA`s
7 Oct T60 (2)
5 Oct T60
29 Sep New google reader
30 Aug 18
18 Aug Arcen
18 Aug WP 2.0.4
13 Aug bcmap 0.1
5 Aug bcraid drivers part two
3 Aug Oops
27 Jul The rm -r / typo
27 Jul SINP: Push versus Pull
22 Jul Tilda
19 Jul SINP Certificates and redirects
16 Jul Typed Yields: Non fatal exceptions
3 Jul sinp.rb
1 Jul SINP
1 Jul SINP & Codeyard
26 Jun On IE7
25 Jun DDOS on Hash Tables (Self Balancing Hash Tables)
8 Jun Gentoo and BC4000 series RAID cards
27 May Downtime 1st June
27 May GMail inbox size plotted
25 May e
25 May sudo is evil
21 May Keep your email secure (and what just doesn’t work)
19 May Anonymous comments ~~disabled~~ re-enabled
16 May First SINP draft
2 May GMail`s strange perception of EMail size
13 Apr Last.fm
1 Apr SQL on rails
22 Mar IThreads
2 Mar Thread synchronization mechanisms (Locks)
1 Mar Upgraded to WordPress 2.0.1
28 Feb Gentoo linux 2006.0 installer
19 Feb Xgl
9 Feb Virtualization isn’t hardware efficient
7 Feb Virtual locality of reference
31 Jan Mulholland Drive
30 Jan PHP’s hidden treasures
28 Jan Beacon with eggs and …
28 Jan Freelancer hash database
15 Jan mail.w-nz.com
12 Jan Crash
4 Jan Welcome to lighttpd
1 Jan Welcome to wordpress 2.0

2005

26 Dec Rainbow Tables: Coverage
26 Dec Rainbow Tables: Introduction
25 Dec Merry Christmas
24 Dec Christmas carol
7 Dec The problem with rainbow tables
22 Nov Switching to Lighttpd
15 Nov Westerbaan Huurman notation
14 Nov Google Analytics
2 Nov Code Golf 3: Googler
1 Nov Code Golf 2: Line Sort
1 Nov Code Golf 1: Fibonacci
25 Oct If only I could cash it
23 Oct Memory Alignment Havoc
23 Oct Enter HashCash 3.0
19 Oct Paradox Wiki
15 Oct Back from Rome
5 Oct Rome, here I come
2 Oct My wordpress.com blog finally has got an usage
1 Oct Binary Multiples
29 Sep Downtime
25 Sep The GC: Tracing, reversing pointer to object
14 Sep The GC: Concurrency
12 Sep The GC: Tracing Garbage
11 Sep The GC: As A Managed Memory Allocator
11 Sep The GC: Reference Counter
11 Sep The GC: Introduction
11 Sep Spam, spam and more spam
2 Sep Yesterdays Crash
30 Aug B-Day
28 Aug Quantumic FS
23 Aug Strange pagerank
23 Aug Using template variables in extension tags with Mediawiki
19 Aug Spread Firefox Clone
17 Aug Dual Cores, Traffic and Gaming
31 Jul Practically Reversing CRC
21 Jul Opeth’s Ghost Reveries
15 Jul Reversing CRC
11 Jul GMail invites
10 Jul Linux Mount Security
7 Jul London Bombings
6 Jul Welcome to 213.133.112.101
4 Jul 213.133.112.101
2 Jul rel=”nofollow”
1 Jul Function Recursion Overhead
30 Jun IEnumerable to IEnumerable<> wrapper
25 Jun Bye Bye Spam
25 Jun Shiftings in Architectures
25 Jun Python Url Encoding
17 Jun Mono gone generic
17 Jun BSD
6 Jun Services, a different approach
6 Jun Power PC dumped
4 Jun Subversion
4 Jun Opeth Ghost Reveries tour
20 May XBox 360
19 May Music Fill Out Thingy
16 May Safe web authentication
14 May Assembly ‘programmers’ suck
6 May Gentoo Linux
30 Apr Extending using Wrapping
23 Apr It’s all about the model
22 Apr Fun with hex
20 Apr Linux style
19 Apr Foolish people
19 Apr Pope
15 Apr Note on logo
15 Apr The Linux Paradox
13 Apr Don’t rely on parsing
5 Apr ‘Objects’ in C – Part 3
3 Apr How to GC in C(++)
2 Apr Softwire
1 Apr April`s first
28 Mar Downtime
23 Mar PHPavascript
22 Mar Ajax, the hype
19 Mar Phalanger
17 Mar Copy protecting
16 Mar Enter The Unkown: Algorithm`s A programmer Has Got To Know
16 Mar Easy Crossbrowser JavaScript
12 Mar Introducing Paradox
11 Mar Beating Spam
10 Mar Trying Thunderbird
9 Mar Plugins, the web and python
9 Mar Dyslexia
8 Mar selfish driver control panels
7 Mar Xr12 concept
6 Mar Python Html Document Abstraction
1 Mar Strange spam
28 Feb Using exception or assertation
28 Feb Schnappi
27 Feb Command line parser update
26 Feb Command line parser for .net
23 Feb Running linux in windows
22 Feb Serialization
21 Feb Regular Expressions in .Net
21 Feb Why Php sucks (and I still use it)
19 Feb Got GMail invites left?
17 Feb Microsoft Anti Spyware
17 Feb Blog updated
13 Feb Skins and performance in PHP
11 Feb Caching in PHP
7 Feb Gamma Wave Effect on a real electric guitar
7 Feb Gamma Wave Effect
7 Feb Electric Guitar Distortion
5 Feb Working on a software based distortion for the electric guitar
4 Feb PHP Security Consortium
2 Feb Image echoing
30 Jan C# rapid game development
30 Jan Server transfer: downtime
27 Jan Negative .Net myths busted
25 Jan Avalon
25 Jan Intrepid Countdown
25 Jan Electrical Resistance
22 Jan Variable sized floating points
16 Jan Subtext
13 Jan C&C Generals Scud Hack
10 Jan Chain emails suck & Asia
8 Jan Torrent sharing p2p network
6 Jan Exeem the hype

2004

29 Dec Freelancer Binary INI format
29 Dec The dynamic of python
27 Dec Base64 encoding/decoding algorithm
26 Dec Inactivity
22 Dec Update on the anti-email-harvester mailto links
21 Dec Protecting your email address against spam bots
21 Dec Developing plugin-based applications
20 Dec RGB to Hex (and why the python interactive mode is so damned handy)
18 Dec Markup? Nah, wysiwyg!
16 Dec Intrepid C – ‘Objects’ in C
16 Dec Some more on my blog
15 Dec ‘Objects’ in C – part 2, ‘type’ing stuff
14 Dec ‘Objects’ in C – part 1, the basics
14 Dec Intrepid.IO.FragmentedStream
14 Dec Rich Client Side Framework
12 Dec OO Stated Stackbased Parsing
12 Dec Parsing $_SERVER[‘PATH_INFO’]
11 Dec Modular Server
11 Dec Why server side scripts aren’t that scalable at all
11 Dec My blog