I just read a fascinating article in the St. Petersburg Times about a fellow who was arrested for using an open Wi-Fi AP to surf the Web. This is one of only a handful of such arrests across the country. It reminded me of just how prevalent Wi-Fi technology is … Continue reading
AP ran a story last month on how Longhorn is going to have built-in support for RSS feeds. It sounds like the OS will basically manage your feeds for you (no more stand-alone RSS reader required?). The article also mentions something called “simple list extensions” which sounds proprietary, however, Microsoft … Continue reading
Wired News ran an article last month talking about the recent phenomenon of warez traders and illegal music downloaders flocking back to Usenet to ply their trade. I find this fascinating considering the number of “modern” file sharing applications like Kazaa and BitTorrent which are easily available. The article cited … Continue reading
Expect is a UNIX program based on the Tcl programming language. It allows for quick and easy automation of interaction with other programs. For example, Expect can be used to write a script which launches FTP, enters a password when prompted, navigates to a directory, downloads a file, and finally … Continue reading
Hi there and welcome to my blog! My name is Matthew Bass. I’m a software developer at SAS Institute in Cary, North Carolina. I’m relatively new to the concept of blogging, but have been doing it internally at SAS for about a month now. I found it to be such … Continue reading