Archive for October, 2006
The easiest explanation of Pollard’s p-1 method I’ve seen yet
0 Comments Published by webmaster October 16th, 2006 in technology, academia.Thank goodness for the Internet… we covered this topic in cryptography class (and it was explained quite well), but this web page seems to spell it out equally well in plain English:
This method is based on Fermat´s little theorem. It is well known that for any prime number you choose, p, and any […]
My my, how slow this web hosting seems to be.
0 Comments Published by webmaster October 16th, 2006 in site news.So if you look at the source of any page generated by WordPress, you’ll see how many queries and seconds it took to render the page. I’m seeing anywhere from 2 to 9 seconds to generate a page, but it seems to actually take about double that number to get to my browser.
I’m not […]
Whitewater rafting awesomeness
1 Comment Published by webmaster October 14th, 2006 in travel, Debbie, family, photography.Dereck, Debbie, Jeff and I went rafting on the Kennebec river in West Forks, Maine a couple weeks ago at Three Rivers. We used three tickets that Debbie got for free through her school. (thanks Beverly School for the Deaf!)
Click on the full link to see photos, or view more of them here on […]
Testing a cross-post
0 Comments Published by webmaster October 2nd, 2006 in Uncategorized, webdev, site news.So, I installed Live+Press and I’m seeing how it works with this post. I hope it works well! It’s really annoying to have two blogs and have your posts on either one or the other, so here’s hope that it doesn’t have to be a problem.
– Yay, it works!
Current Mood: cheerful