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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…
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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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…
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Network Neutrality for the lay-person
This was posted by me as a response to a story on Macsimum News [ Link Rot! ]. In the interest of equal time, Dennis Sellers posted an article written…
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iTunes University – UC Berkeley
UC Berkley has opened up their iTunes U course audio to the general public. You can jump directly to the website here: http://itunes.berkeley.edu/ [ link rot! ] Always a lover…
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Keep it in your pants: memory-based storage device security
Jack Gold has a fairly brief article on data security vs. flash memory storage here [link rotted]. While the article points out a valid issue, the problem is really not…