Core PHP Programming
I’m reading Core PHP Programming by Leon Atkinson to learn PHP for another part of this site (coming soon) and to dip my toes back into programming after five years of doing tech support and product management with NetDynamics and iPlanet Ecommerce Solutions, a Sun/Netscape Alliance. Currently on personal leave, my most recent assignment was product management for iPlanet Application Server
Descrambling CSS w/ 7 Lines Of Perl A DMCA Violation?
From SlashDot: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/03/06/1954213&mode=thread
“Dr. David Touretzky has done it again, posting a 7-line 526-byte Perl VOB descrambler on his ever-growing Gallery of CSS Descramblers. ‘qrpff’ was written by MIT Student Information Processing Board members Keith Winstein and Marc Horowitz for a 6-hour seminar on ‘Decrypting DVD’ taught at MIT in January-February.”
Code takes awhile to read and understand but clearly shows the power of Perl.
Photo of a beautiful orphan baby Orangutan
Zakhar in Moscow.
The man who (plans to) fall to Earth
From FEED: http://www.feedmag.com/templates/default.php3?a_id=1645
“NEXT YEAR, Rodd Millner, an Australian ex-commando, plans to one-up the American hero Chuck Yeager, the first person to travel faster than the speed of sound. In a stunt that will either redefine the boundaries of science or the boundaries of idiocy, Millner intends to don a space suit and ride a balloon 130,000 feet up to the edge of space. Once he gets there, he will jump.”
This will either become the next rich boy hobby or a sad death that will be hailed as heroic and amazing adventure by those for whom life without excitement isn’t living at all.
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