It’s Friday! I have a bunch of meetings today but I think I should be able to get off work early. I have a meet and greet at The Parlor with some guys from Citrix. The Parlor is a pool hall / bar in Bellevue. I hope that will be a good end to the work week.
I changed my WordPress theme because I got tired of my old theme. So far I really like this new theme. It is simple and clean.
The other day I joined Twitter. It is a neat little web app. I am not sure what the staying power of Twitter is but I desided to added a Twitter plug in to my blog. Now my Twitter posts show up on the right hand side of the blog. I guess you could say I jumped all the way into Twitter. I added a Twitter Client to my Blackberry, I am now running a Twitter Client on my blog, and I have a client running on my desktop. I am not really sure what I will continue to post on Twitter but I will try to keep posting.
So in the spirit of promoting Twitter you can following my at http://twitter.com/patricktalmadge.
The other week I found a major security hole in one of the systems at work. I notified my manager who then notified the correct people. I am waiting to see if this issue gets resolved. So far I have not seen any progress towards closing the hole. Lack of motivation to path security holes seems to be a major flaw in big business. That is till the security hole gets exploited, then it is scrabble time.
I have done my part now it is up to the powers that be.
My Netflix account now has the new Watch Now feature. I have watched two movies with Watch Now and I am very impressed. The movies start streaming quickly and pay back is very smooth with little or no buffering issues. Netflix has done a great job with Watch Now. They have obviously spent some time and money developing this feature, I am very pleased. Now the only problem I have is I will need build a new media PC so I can watch movies on my TV.
My new job is keeping me very busy. I have been working around 50 hours a week and with the drive time I am away from home for 12 hours a day.
My class has been going well. I am almost done with the second class of the series of classes. I am hoping to have more time once my classes is over. Then I should be able to post more.
My new job is going well. It is keeping me very busy. I am really enjoying the work. The last few days I have been sick. I seem to be all better now. I am looking forward to getting a schedule going again. Getting a schedule back should allow me to do the reading I want to do and start working out again.
My class are going well also. We got our class project and I am on the hacker team. Should be a lot of fun.
It has been a long time since I last posted. I have been very busy. I got a new job as a support engineer for a large company in Redmond, WA.
I am enjoying the new challenge and can’t wait till I am up to speed. I will post more later. I have a paper on least privilege I plan to post.
I am a huge Netflix fan. I watch and return my movies the same day most of the time. Now it gets even better. I found this video on hackingNetflix.com that shows how the new Netflix watch now system works. According to Netflix this new online movie download system will be spread out to all users by the end of June 2007. According to the Netflix press release the hours will very depending on your membership level. Users at the entry level $5.99 plan will recieve 6 hours of movies. The more popular 3 disc at a time plan will recieve 18 hours of streaming movies.
I stummbled on this article from Peter Gutmann explaining the copy protection built into Windows Vista. The article states that Vista will down grade video and audio reproduction on protected media if Vista can not protect the media.
Vista also has built in tilt bits to help protect from hacked hardware. Vista checks its hardware regularly against these tilt bits to see if it is still valid. It sounds like Microsoft is a little paranoid about getting sued or being hacked. I am not sure any of this extra code will make Vista more secure from hackers and malware. In fact it might make it easier for hackers to mess with your system. Vista’s tilt bits might have opened a door for hackers to change a hardware configuration on your system which would cause Vista to do a “Reboot” in order to restore correct functionality.
Check out Peter Gutmann’s full article here.
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