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Happy New Year, Now with 50% less slacking off

badsign Lets be honest, 2013 was a fairly bad year as far as the blog here is concerned. I was doing an “OK” job posting through June. In late July I was on vacation (for the first time in several years) which lead to a flurry of posts for July and August. The September came……

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Personal

Book Review: The Node Beginner Book

nodebook During August I went and took my first “real vacation” in about 5 years, however I ended up having to work most of it. Unfortunately I’m still working on that elusive “real vacation”. During the times I wasn’t working, I spent some time reading The Node Beginner Book, and generally trying to learn Node.js….

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Books

Ubuntu Edge – Not even close

ubuntu A little over a month ago we talked about the launch of the Ubuntu Edge indiegogo campaign. At that point I was highly skeptical that the campaign would meet the halfway point. Well, last week the funding closed and it was not even close.

Hardware

Leap Motion – Lacks a killer app

leap In May of 2012 there was a lot of hubbub over this new “Leap Motion” controller. I thought it sounded like a really cool idea (Who didn’t?), so I pre-ordered one. Much to my excitement it arrived while I was on vacation. Once I got back I had a chance to play with it……

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Entertainment

GFI Vipre Enterprise for Mac – Run away logs

vipre Yesterday at the office we discovered that GFI Vipre for Mac has a “small” run away logging problem. The antivirus logs to /private/var/log/vipred_stdout.log and /private/var/log/vipred_stderr.log — The latter of which being the problem file. stderr on numerous machines was in excess of several gigabytes in size. While we never bothered to correctly address the…

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Apple

OpenDNS Umbrella – Safety or Zombies?

200px-Umbrella_Corporation_logo We started evaluating OpenDNS Umbrella at the office while back. While I’ve always been a big fan of OpenDNS (and even applied to work there once), I was reluctant to get into this “Umbrella” service. Not because I fear Umbrella Corp, but because it just didn’t seem useful. What little info I skimmed on…

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