Fed up with meddling scolds trying to control what they don't understand
Don Reisinger at CNET posted an angry blog entry yesterday titled “A tech lover’s call to arms”. It’s the usual hand-wringing over various and sundry attempts to regulate/control/limit technology,...
View ArticleWPA Cracking with rt73, aircrack-ng, and Ubuntu Gutsy
There’s been a dearth of tech posts around here lately, but that’s about to change. I’ve previously mentioned the Alfa AWUS036S USB WLAN adapter that I got a while back for OpenBSD wardriving. It’s...
View ArticleAutomatic Podcast Transcript Generator
I just read a TechCrunch post on companies that should exist but dont, which reminded me of an idea I had years ago during the dawn of the internet age, to use Internet technologies to farm out...
View ArticleAIM Bots: To my surprise, they seem to work
When AOL first added the ‘AIM bots’ to my account, I received the intro IMs via Gaim and dismissed them as another purile attempt by AOL to monetize their IM service. However, in the interest of...
View ArticleStill Don't Get Google Base
I commented recently about how I don’t get Google Base. I read a post by Russel Beattie wherein he describes his epiphany about how this will all work. He quotes Bill Burnham: One need look no further...
View ArticlePlaying with Google Analytics in Drupal
Today I learned of a new Google endeavor, Google Analytics. It’s basically traffic analysis software, mostly targeted to advertisers (in fact, it’s free to AdWords customers), but also useful to...
View ArticleA developer skill continuum courtesy Bill
My co-worker and boss, Bill, posted a concise, insightful article on the skill continuum of IT developers. I worked on the same project with him for a couple years, and feel like we’ve both explored...
View Article64-bit 1TB File Server (Or, 'How to dispose of $2k')
For roughly a year now, I’ve been tweaking the specs on a 1TB file server I keep meaning to build. When I started the project, I was confined to artemis’ meager ~30GB RAID storage. I added a 120GB RAID...
View ArticleNew VMWare Player!
I just got an email from VMWare announcing the new VMWare Player. As the name implies, it allows anyone who downloads the free player to run virtual machines created w/ VMWare Workstation. The download...
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