Idleness / busyness article

I read this good blog post on slow leadership titled "The Bustle of Idleness".  I can think of a few people who this applies to, including me.  Well go read and have something to think about over your coffee :). 

OSX Leopard in a Virtual Machine

Well, this morning started out good. For the longest time I have wanted to have OS X running in its own Virtual Machine (VM), so I can do some security testing without hosing my main box and because I don't have enough spare money to buy a kick around Mac. I started to research it earlier this week and found out that since the last time I looked into it someone has created a VMWare image of OS X, sweet!

After a few days of downloading (36 different rar files on a file share site, blah!), I have it running and here is a screen cap to prove it :).


Pretty cool, eh? Maybe it is the just the geek in me or the caffeine slowly seeping into my body but I am just f'ing happy right now.

The link I found this information at is http://pcwizcomputer.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=76&Itemid=48
(bonus points if you can tell me the CMS they are running just by looking at the URL :P).

Also, since it is 36 separate files to d/l this, if you want you can email me and I will post up one large archive for you to d/l off of my server.

So, what am I going to do with this? There are many different things I can/want to do. I think the first thing on my plate will be to fuzz the shit out of Safari and see what crashes and potential exploits can be found. I have had a client have a web page that crashes Safari so I am sure there is tons more I just don't think many people are looking yet :P.

Frameworks for SaaS

I am seeing a new business emerge which I think is kind of cool.  Basically it is frameworks/providers for building Software-As-A-Service applications.  I have been a fan of SaaS before it was called that, so, it is cool to see it get some hype.  

Two examples of these frameworks are:

SaaS Rails Kit

Bungee Labs (Provider-As-A-Service)

Both of these are very interesting ideas and I think we will see many developers and business people take advantage of this.  Although I am a bit worried about SaaS becoming way too over-hyped but that is another blog post all on its own.  

What does this mean for the future?  I see two things happening.

1) There is going to be more and more SaaS applications built, which will be great for cost.  Harder to differentiate yourself (think of blogs right now).

2) There is some good money in getting into this framework niche now.  

Well back to work....

OSX == coffee house fun

I am sitting at my favorite coffee shop working while my girlfriend studies and every time I come here I see all of these macs showing up in my finder. Since I am not in that big of a mood to work I figured I would blog about this as it cracks me up every time. Here is what I see from iTunes and Finder (OSX's version of Windows Explorer).

Look at all of those computers! Most of them I can't read from (well without some work) but most of them I can write too, that isn't too big of a problem is it :P? I mean if I was a real dick I could just pump porn onto their hard drives or... I can steal their music, etc... This reminds me of the late 90s early 2000s with Windows 98 and the XP where sharing was on by default and you could get all sorts of goodies from people's machines.

Alright, back to work, but next time you are in a coffee house and have a mac see how many other computers pop-up in your Finder :).