Bruce Schneier


The Best Comment I Read in Anyone’s Code Today

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Huff, Puff, METADATA

humorously, for a new project i’m working on, i created a metadata inflater in perl. it’s raison d’etre is to convert nokia’s lifeblog-format SMS files to something we can load into our DB. nokia doesn’t store any of the relevant metadata within the SMS files, so since it’s only test data, i make up the […]

Rejected!

Subject: SourceForge.net Project Rejection
Rejection Cause: Unable to approve on initial review; further review pending
Project Descriptive Name: A.S. Sequential Heuristic Autonamer Tree
Project Unix Name: asshat
License: GPL
Registration description: The A.S. (Actionscript) Sequential Heuristic Autonamer Tree helps content authors maintain a manually versioned directory hierarchy, arbitrarily deep, of actionscript (.as) and movie (.fla) files, and is intended for […]

mod_just leave it alone

mod_”as is” - a curious addition to the apache filter pantheon. That this filter exists is an interesting commentary on the documentation and transparency of the apache 2.0 filters chain.