The parallels between Joel Bukiewicz's passion and many startups are striking. Some people understand that extreme amounts of money isn't what makes them happy, rather being able to completely explore their own medium in the ways they choose is where the love is.
I sent an email to the freshmeat team a really long time ago (around 2001?) asking them what the image was in the background of it. If I remember correctly, they said it was an image at Lollapalooza. Unfortunately I don't have the original email.
I recently fixed an issue where the server wouldn't follow redirects which was causing some false negatives. If your site still shows as a no would you mind letting me know what the domain is so I can fix any other issue?
The way I check for the vulnerability is based on the original perl script in the OP link. I submit 20 byte range requests and check for a Partial string in the response, if I see that I assume that the server is vulnerable. It's more of an educated guess, but I've been using it myself to fix misc servers I have running.
I created a little mini site that lets you check if your server is vulnerable, along with some information about the exploit:
http://apache-range-exploit.com/
After creating http://qktract.com I found about EchoSign from a few of my customers. I've taken a completely different approach to online contracts/signing than they have but it's nice to know that there is a good business model here and plenty of room for competition. Congratulations to the EchoSign team.
I think the problem here is that not all employers will challenge you. In my mind, the key to finding enjoyment in your work if it's not challenging is to challenge yourself. Unless your job is oppressive to self direction there is nothing stopping you or anyone else from creating or doing something that is positive for the business and challenging for you. As a few examples you could find ways to optimize a system that is inefficient (it doesn't even need to be at the software level), analyze information about your customers, find ways to save money, research ways to get new clients, etc. A side benefit to challenging yourself is that you will find it quite rewarding. I can highly recommend Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's book on "flow" in regards to the phenomenon around it.
I think what I'm trying to say is by challenging yourself to be more than what it is your employer expects out of you results in a net win for both you and your company.
Amazing film, very well done.