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I was waiting to see this movie for a long time ago. Finally I got a good release! Good release, bad movie… Basic jokes, lots of flying bullets, and only one pretty woman… I really don’t recommend it.

Ok.. the joke about “Carlos Santana” was nice.. :-)

Tonight I watched the movie Next (or the next movie? :-)). I would say that, from the trailer, I had higher expectations about this movie. However, it was not too deep as I thought, and so I am disapointed. But anyway it is a good average movie. And Julianne Moore is still hot!

Great movie! Really interesting history, and the best part is that you really don’t understand a thing until the last 10 minutes! I can’t belive that Lucy Liu is already 39…

Anyway, thanks ambs for the recomendation :)

Yesterday I watched the movie The number 23. I love the history. It captures your attention all the way until the end of the movie. On the other hand, it’s cool to see Jim Carrey doing serious movies, not just “stupid” comic stuff. Anyway, good movie, I definitely recommend it.

PS – Today I was having lunch at a local Pizza restaurant. When I receive the receipt from my order, I looked at the time stamp: “13:10” :D 13+10 = 23.. Oh god.. It is starting…..

Since the last year, I spent a lot of time studying cryptography and data protection on Linux. Since then I use cryptographic methods to cipher all my hard drives.

I started using loop-AES and then switched to dm-crypt + LUKS. This are really great and secure methods to protect your data. I spent some time using Twofish, but I found it slower than AES (I always use 256bit keys).

Recently however, I’ve heard that there are some Linux kernel optimized modules for specific hardware. I’ve header reports that these assembly implementations are more than 5 times faster than the C AES standard module.

Since I’m running ate 64bits on my server (Athlon 64 3500+), I decided to give it a try:

$ rmmod aes; modprobe aes_x86_64

And OH MY GOD!! It seems that I have a new machine!! This is completely different!! Thank you ASM sick guys!

PS – For you with x86 (Pentium or higher) use aes-i585