Eric Martindale

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is a really weird movie, and it really scared me.  Not only is the concept nail-head-on, but I used to be called Jim Carrey, and some say I bear a striking resemblance to him in my expressions.  Well... yeah.  It's difficult to explain.

So what, I got over that.  But then, just when I thought the worst was over, I was randomly Googling - the verb form of to search the google search engine - and then... BOOM! HEADSHOT!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/ww2/A5089836

Okay, I can handle someone from WW2 looking almost like myself - and the fact that he's a pilot, one of my dreams.  Okay.  I can handle that.  And then...

http://www.artofcombat.com/instructors.htm :
The training group (SOI) in Dallas was small and under the guidance of Eric Martindale (which promoted Ralph to 9th kyu), ....

I can handle a martial arts instructor being named Eric Martindale as well, a little odd, but then again, I've always been involved in martial arts, haven't I?  Eric apparently promoted that guy to 9th kyu, right?  So don't you have to be 10th kyu?  So he's 1337 like that, right?    ...      And then...

And of course there's the soccer referee, or is he a player?  I don't remember.  He's another Eric Martindale.  A little weird, too... but I've played soccer since the age of five.  And then...

http://www.rtpnet.org/troop200/history/T200Eagles.html

I became an Eagle Scout, too.  When I was a young boy... I was once a cub scout aspiring to be an Eagle Scout.  Dun dun dun.  The plot thickens.

http://www.e-budo.com/forum/showpost.php?p=211703&postcount=15

Once again, I am involved in a martial arts situation, and I believe referring to the same Eric Martindale.  And then...

http://nhpresbytery.org/pdf/Graduates01.pdf

Holy crap, that IS me.  For real.  Only slightly unexpected at this point... after all of these STRANGE entries.  Slightly.  O_o ....

And then...

I've apparently lost myself on http://lostfriends.org - or is someone looking for me?  Oh... that's what I meant to say.  I haven't found myself there yet... but apparently Google did.  And then...

http://north-carolina.injuryboard.com/view.cfm/Topic=77/PAGE=2

I WAS on this page at some point... and this one is somewhat entertaining.  Apparently, in Charlotte during some point about a year ago, someone named Eric Martindale died in a car accident.  I believe I had four people come up to me that day and ask if I had died... I was about two hours north of charlotte at the time, and the "Eric Martindale" news had reached most parts of North Carolina and Virginia, and I got two phone calls, one from my mother - asking if I had died.   .... ... ... ... ....   And then...

http://www.faqs.org/usenet/news.announce.newgroups/rec/rec.autos.rotary

I'm the president of a North Carolina rotary club.  I've always been a fan of rotary engines... but this is ridiculous... WTFH? ....  I'm becoming very frightened at this point... very frightened.  I love rotary engines.  That rotary club is two cities away.  ...  And then...

http://www.wrestlingusa.com/02%20wusa%20web%20root/highschoolnews/wisconsin.html

I used to wrestle, but I've never been to Wisconson.  Or.   Have I.

"The One", any one?  Whoa!  The Matrix!  42!

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Eric Martindale
IT Professional
Admin of GWing.net

I've been relying heavily on node.js this past year to provide a robust set of tools to solve the problems I encounter on a daily basis. I was pleased to see honorCipherOrder was added to node's TLS library in node.js v0.7.6, and released with node.js v0.8.0.

Late last year, security researcher Juliano Rizzo announced a new attack against the AES encryption used in the SSL/TLS transaction he dubbed BEAST. The details are interesting to those who care, but it turns out that we can mitigate this attack in node.js by enforcing honorCipherOrder on the server. Let's take a look.

If you have an HTTPS server that looks like this:

var https = require('https');
var fs = require('fs');

var options = {
  key: fs.readFileSync('key.pem'),
  cert: fs.readFileSync('cert.pem')
};

https.createServer(options, function (req, res) {
  res.writeHead(200);
  res.end("hello world\n");
}).listen(443);

...you can now manage the cipher order by using the ciphers option. In the following code snippet we're going set the options for the above server to use Steve Caligo's cipher order, which prefers TLS 1.2 ciphers (which are not vulnerable to the BEAST attack) for clients that support TLS 1.2 but falls back to the RC4 ciphers on TLS 1.0 clients.^[...]

var options = {
  key: fs.readFileSync('key.pem'),
  cert: fs.readFileSync('cert.pem'),
  ciphers: 'ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:AES256-SHA:RC4-SHA:RC4:HIGH:!MD5:!aNULL:!EDH:!AESGCM'
};

Finally, we will enforce the cipher order on the server's side of the negotiation:

var options = {
  key: fs.readFileSync('key.pem'),
  cert: fs.readFileSync('cert.pem'),
  ciphers: 'ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:AES256-SHA:RC4-SHA:RC4:HIGH:!MD5:!aNULL:!EDH:!AESGCM',
  honorCipherOrder: true
};

...which leaves us with the following code for a working server that is not vulnerable to the BEAST attack (in node v0.8.0+!):

var https = require('https');
var fs = require('fs');

var options = {
  key: fs.readFileSync('key.pem'),
  cert: fs.readFileSync('cert.pem'),
  ciphers: 'ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:AES256-SHA:RC4-SHA:RC4:HIGH:!MD5:!aNULL:!EDH:!AESGCM',
  honorCipherOrder: true
};

https.createServer(options, function (req, res) {
  res.writeHead(200);
  res.end("hello world\n");
}).listen(443);

Edit, 6/13/2013: Lloyd Watkin has done some research on his own and decided to use a different cipher chain:

ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256:AES128-GCM-SHA256:RC4:HIGH:!MD5:!aNULL:!EDH

You should read into why he chose it and make an educated decision. </edit>

Until node.js implements this as the defaults (they should), this is something you should implement where using HTTPS with node!

Something that wish would have caught on as Node did is RingoJS (http://ringojs.org/), a CommonJS runtime that uses Rhino/JS and runs on the JVM.

Ringo IMHO could have sparked a Java renaissance and taken advantage of the maturity of the Java platform where they running joke is for any giving feature, you have at least 5 different libraries that can do it. That would solve what is a real problem in Node: the fact that libraries are sparse and either require coding yourself or finding a C library and writing a JS meta layer.

A RingoJS app doesn't need a special runtime environment or a hosting provider to enable it, if you can run Java, including Google App Engine. But alas, it wasn't to be, the same individuals who have no business touching a server yet are coding Node because it's just JavaScript. They were the same ones who decried Java as a big slow mass because they couldn't understand the mechanics of not blocking the event handling thread.

The Rubyists eventually got over their hatred of Java, when will the JavaScripters?

Sigh

I've been building a lot using Node.js lately. My experience with it has been good, from the ease and simplicity of setting up a realtime die-roller [1] to building an entire education platform [2]. It's a little strange getting your head around the constant callback mentality, but it's otherwise intuitive.

It's good reading some legitimate criticisms of Node.js, though. The author of this post has a point about how using it creates a tightly coupled system, contrary to existing UNIX patterns and presumably creating a maintenance nightmare in the future. I think time will tell, however--especially as parts of the toolchain and deploying solutions mature (I'm looking at you, Joyent!).

Thanks to +James Williams for sharing!

[1] https://github.com/RolePlayGateway/rpg-table
[2] http://www.hangoutacademy.com/

I've been building a lot using Node.js lately. My experience with it has been good, from the ease and simplicity of setting up a realtime die-roller [1] to building an entire education platform [2]. It's a little strange getting your head around the constant callback mentality, but it's otherwise intuitive.

It's good reading some legitimate criticisms of Node.js, though. The author of this post has a point about how using it creates a tightly coupled system, contrary to existing UNIX patterns and presumably creating a maintenance nightmare in the future. I think time will tell, however--especially as parts of the toolchain and deploying solutions mature (I'm looking at you, Joyent!).

Thanks to +James Williams for sharing!

[1] https://github.com/RolePlayGateway/rpg-table
[2] http://www.hangoutacademy.com/

I've been building a lot using Node.js lately. My experience with it has been good, from the ease and simplicity of setting up a realtime die-roller [1] to building an entire education platform [2]. It's a little strange getting your head around the constant callback mentality, but it's otherwise intuitive.

It's good reading some legitimate criticisms of Node.js, though. The author of this post has a point about how using it creates a tightly coupled system, contrary to existing UNIX patterns and presumably creating a maintenance nightmare in the future. I think time will tell, however--especially as parts of the toolchain and deploying solutions mature (I'm looking at you, Joyent!).

Thanks to +James Williams for sharing!

[1] https://github.com/RolePlayGateway/rpg-table
[2] http://www.hangoutacademy.com/

I've been building a lot using Node.js lately. My experience with it has been good, from the ease and simplicity of setting up a realtime die-roller [1] to building an entire education platform [2]. It's a little strange getting your head around the constant callback mentality, but it's otherwise intuitive.

It's good reading some legitimate criticisms of Node.js, though. The author of this post has a point about how using it creates a tightly coupled system, contrary to existing UNIX patterns and presumably creating a maintenance nightmare in the future. I think time will tell, however--especially as parts of the toolchain and deploying solutions mature (I'm looking at you, Joyent!).

Thanks to +James Williams for sharing!

[1] https://github.com/RolePlayGateway/rpg-table
[2] http://www.hangoutacademy.com/

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+James Williams The end of the article draws a line between node.js issues and php. It's the same kind of talk i hear about php: "this is a cancer, we must purge it, it has issues therefore its the worst thing ever and don't ever use it because you will code yourself into hades".
Most coders own a few cars. Javascript is my motorcycle, php is my compact car, and c# is my pickup truck. If I was less lazy I'd have more cars, but I do well with the ones I've got. If I could take the motorcycle onto the highway (server side) and get away with it, I'm sure I would.

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I'm a pretty heavy feedreader, with about 164 subscriptions. Over the last 30 days, I've read 8,032 items, starred 9 items, shared 20 items, and emailed 2 items. Of course... I really enjoy a good number of things that I read - and I want to share these items with everyone.

Then there's the question about content-theft. Some bloggers like to take RSS feeds and republish them on their own site, earning revenue from the content, and there's a huge backlash from the original authors.

What I'd like to do is publish my shared items feed here on my blog, without changing anything in the original article. I'll have to play around with tagging and the like, and I'll have to decide on what plugin to use exactly. However, will I get any backlash from the authors? Is this appropriate?

(There's supposed to be a list of shared items here... but apparently it isn't working.)

Now, keep in mind that each of them would most likely get their own post, with all of the original links intact. I'd be pulling the RSS feed from my Google Reader account (if I could link to my profile, that'd be great - then people could even "Add Eric as a Friend" and subscribe to my shared items. Alas - Google doesn't make it that easy), and letting people read and see it here.

What do you think? Blog authors who I frequently share from, I'd really appreciate your opinion, or even suggestions on alternatives. Google Trends says my most shared items are from Lifehacker (a getting things done blog) - so YOUR comments would be especially helpful. ;) Let me know!

People's fonts in messengers.  What the hell?

I'm using Gaim, a program that allows me full control over any messenger I use, and keeps them all within the same window.  (AIM, MSN... all in one buddy list, plus all the messages can come in the same window, tabbed. =D  )  I've used a feature within Gaim to ignore people's font sizes, because it's annoying to read a size 6 font on even something like 1024 x 768 resolution, let alone anything above that.  So here comes this message, in a nice loopy font that makes me scoot so damned close to the monitor that I can actually see the pixels.  That's fine, I can deal with it.   But then as I cross the distance from my normal resting position in my chair to about 12 inches from the monitor, I notice that the text is written in a light grey color on a white background.  Ugh, what is this crap?  Pick on Eric day?

Oh no, wait... I get it.  It's all part of this "individuality" thing.  You know, when people are referred to as things like "xXx  PWRLVL  xXx"  and  "§Φ¶ђỉ€".  And their profiles say things like " wishing upon a star, i wished for a happy ending<3 ".  What kind of individual are you when you can be grouped with everyone else who does these 'emo' and 'punk' and 'jock' and 'rocker' and 'metal' things.  I guess you are ALL now considered IM culture whores.  Every single one of you who habitually check profiles, update their myspaces, have myspaces, and block people for a second time (or more) on a regular basis... are IM culture whores.  All of you.

Sure, it's all good when you disregard your shift key to actually capitalize things...  but it's bad when you leave CAPS LOCK ON AND YOU TYPE LIKE THIS.  It's even worse  when u type lik this and decide 2 substitute things so u dont hav 2 type so much.  At the very least, learn to type in proper English, you morons.

--
Eric Martindale
IT Professional
Admin of GWing.net

Following suit with the likes of Tim Bray and Eric Meyer, I figured I'd throw together my browser's letter sweep tonight.

• [A]dmin Site. Yeah, I guess I would be visiting the admin panel for this. Quite frequently.
• Mirascape's [B]log. An infrequent haunt of mine, but fairly obvious.
• [C]MON. Cluster Monitor for MySQL Cluster, something I almost always have open.
• Google [D]ocs. This one is painfully obvious, I use Google Docs extensively.
• [E]ricMartindale.com. Okay, that's a gimme. Does this make me egocentric?
• [F]acebook. I'm actually fairly ashamed of this one. Why can't I have a cool F site? sadface
• [G]mail. Three accounts linked using Google's Multiple Sign-in. Open [almost] all day.
• [H]ighcharts JS. A pretty kick-ass Javascript library for generating charts on the clientside.
• [I]nternal Discussion. A site for communication with my team. :)
• [J]Query Mobile Demo, 1.0 alpha 3. I've been spending a lot of time toying with jQuery Mobile, seeing where it's going compared to Sencha Touch.
• [K]r.github.com. Keith Rarick's GitHub redirect. Total ass-kicker.
• [L]inkedIn. Pretty straightforward, between hiring for our team at @Mirascape and the travel to and from various conferences and Meetups lately.
• [M]irascape. The augmented reality platform I'm responsible for.
• [N]oxBot. A nice PHP-powered IRC bot with various plugins. A bit out of date, but very powerful. Been using it for a couple things lately.
• [O]K, QR Me!. A QR Code-generating link shortener I built.
• [P]ostmark. Best Email delivery service I've used. Nice RESTful API, flat rate for emails sent.
• [Q]uora. These guys nail Q&A, and they're doing it pretty well. Check out all their buzz, too. But for some reason, I just don't stick.
• Google [R]eader. “From your 1,040 subscriptions, over the last 30 days you read 21,549 items, clicked 274 items, starred 853 items, shared 37 items, and emailed 8 items.” -- </stats>
• [S]erver Stats for Mirascape. Powered by Munin, it's how I keep track of the status and metrics of all my servers.
• [T]witter. Not surprising. I love their webapp for my personal use, but own and manage at least five accounts using SplitTweet.
• [U]serVoice. Pretty sweet tool I use for giving the communities I manage a good way to build a consensus on what they desire most. Examples I run: for RolePlayGateway, and EVE UserVoice for EVE Online.
• Google [V]oice. Allows me to use SMS from my computer, read (as opposed to listen to) voicemail. Great tool. If only it supported MMS.
• [W]achovia. One of the places I do banking.
• [X]DA Developers. An indisposable resource for getting rid of carrier-installed crap and running my own choice of software on the hardware I purchased!
• [Y]ouTube. Another big namer. No surprise.
• [Z]ecco. Where I trade most of my public stocks. :)

Surprisingly populist, and there's a lot of Google-owned properties in there. I'm also using Chromium, so I think it prefers the roots of the sites I visit instead of searching through my history for individual pages.

I was expanding on the issue of basic libraries as another sore point in Node and how you could use another CommonJS variant and have one less issue to contend with.

I'm not quite sure where PHP got into the debate but you must realize that they might feel they are offering a valid alternative albeit with advantages skewed to their skillset but as PHP person, your investment in the language renders that point moot.

That person doesn't own the car, they might only lease. So their priorities are gonna be different.

If you're using MySQL Cluster and have recently added a nodegroup, you can use the following code to generate a report of what tables are currently partitioned across the nodes as you apply ALTER ONLINE TABLE ... REORGANIZE PARTITION to them to get them partitioned:

select count(p.table_name) as partitions, p.table_schema, p.table_name from tables t join partitions p on (t.table_schema=p.table_schema and t.table_name=p.table_name) where t.engine='ndbcluster' group by p.table_schema, p.table_name order by partitions desc;

You'll get a nice clean report of all your tables, what schema they belong to, and how many partitions they have. Use in combination with my method of finding the largest tables in MySQL and you'll ensure smooth growth of your cluster!

Eric,
Have we had the conversation about the predatory nature of evolutionary psychology inspiring Darwinian interactions within our own species? Play should not only be for children, we should teach humans to play together throughout their lives.
I believe we've spoken about the necessity of philosophy in elementary school curriculum? Any chance you'd be interested in working with the state to make this happen? Are you searching for the complete solution through institution or solely seeking answers through decentralized systems?

Toni Lane Casserly, TLC
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