To anticipate and prevent
Cruised over to CNET News and found this fun article over dead pixels. The reason why I find this fun, is that I too have recenetly run into this problem. I’ve never had a screen with a bad pixel until now. In fact its on my Averatec. Before the screen died a misserable death and…
As I’m sure many have seen this bit in Bruce Schneier’s Blog about SHA-1 being broken. And we already know DES sucks. What I would love to know is how AES encryption is doing in the grand sceme of things. Right now I use KeePass (a very nifty open source project, I highly sugest checking…
For those of you that haven’t heard the news, Skype is becoming rather popular. Its a ‘P2P’ VoIP/IM/File Trans client. Its P2P in the fact that when party X & Y start a call, the call is not going to a server, its going right from X to Y’s computer (Well, there are sometimes when…
I ran across this bit about building a RAID that I thought was very intresting. Its not all that uncommon now adays though. In the recent past I built myself a 400$ machine that was supposed to be the house server (turned out latter the RAM was bad, killed the machine a good bit, etc…
I saw this article linked to from slashdot. It brings a tear to the eye to think of what a big company like SBC might do, throw it all away. I’ll admit that I don’t really care much about the archive now, as most people dont. But think of our future generations. One day no…
So I wanted a way to quickly add links to my homepage(/website). Its 3 easy steps 1 — “links.html” — This file either needs to be chmod 777 or chown www-data (or what ever you apache user is). 2 — Bookmark Java. I created a new bookmark in firefox with the following as location: (as…