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iPhone acquired
And I’m posting from it. I finally get to be the kid with the Nikes. The one that gets shot and shit, you dig?
Category: Geekery
Welcome to the tech triage unit. Geekery is where we wrestle with code, deploy terminal commands, and attempt to unfuck the digital landscape. This is a running log of technical survival: migrating away from old, janky site infrastructures, messing with instant-message scumbags, and hacking OS flaws to make them actually usable.
Whether we are stress-testing hardware via grid computing or chronicling the acquisition of shiny new tech just to see if it holds up, we are documenting the endless fight to keep the machines in line. If it requires root access or an existential sigh at a screen, it belongs here.
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Email etiquette 101
I work in an IT at a university. I expect, to some extent, to have to deal with morons. It’s part of the job. But for fuck’s sake, cannot the…
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If the RIAA were an IT Dept…
Adapted from a conversation elsewhere… Recording contracts with RIAA companies are more or less equivalent to signing away your payday. Many smaller acts, even those who tour frugally, end up…
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Almost There
So, the total site overhaul is nearly done. There are a few cosmetic issues to clear up regarding various cosmetic, and some accommodations that I need to make for folks…
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Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth
Sometimes, waiting for a very long time adds up to unrealistic expectations. Every once in a while, we get lucky, and the expectations are not only met, but exceeded. Such…