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Sunday, November 6th, 2011
Earlier today my spouse dragged me away from the comfy computer chair and screen into the somewhat frigid outdoors for a trip with the kids and a stroller to the Inner Harbor. To avoid traffic and expense of parking we decided to take public transportation, and being that all three ...
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Monday, October 17th, 2011
In the last week or so I ended up upgrading my main PC from Ubuntu 11.04 to 11.10 and hacking 32GB HP TouchPad with the newly released CyanogenMod 7.1 Alpha (aka Android 2.3). I must say that the Alpha, unsupported, potentially lethal, etc. CM7 hack for the TouchPad runs smoother ...
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Monday, July 18th, 2011
The NY Times is reporting that Borders is liquidating itself, closing 399 stores and firing over 10,000 people. This is a second largest brick and mortar book chain in the US, with the biggest (Barnes and Noble) not doing too well either. Reports are trickling in that publishers are getting ...
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Monday, May 24th, 2010
The ARF draft passed IESG approval and is on its way to becoming a formal RFC. Background here and here.
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Wednesday, April 21st, 2010
The abuse reporting format I originally created in conjunction with ASRG and bunch of ISPs (that eventually morphed into MAAWG) has finally passed the Last Call in the IETF's MARF working group. That means that it is now going to be going to the IESG for review and hopefully on ...
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Wednesday, April 21st, 2010
A friend of my has McAfee antivirus installed on his computer from the college he is attending (Towson University). Earlier today his computer started rebooting because of a faulty McAfee update that has crippled computers worldwide.
So he called McAfee's customer service and guess what? They can fix the problem for ...
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Friday, August 28th, 2009
In the recent few month I have come more and more across personal laptops and desktops infected with various rootkits. The standard solution is to wipe the OS and reinstall. Recently an alternative may be a rescue CD with the antivirus software on it which is used to boot the ...
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Monday, August 17th, 2009
Many recent flash drives such as Sandisk Cruzer come built in with a read-only CDROM-like partition which appears as a CD-ROM on the computer, and a second writable partition. It seems that this is something not done via software but must have support in hardware since presenting a device as ...
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Monday, August 17th, 2009
The easiest way is to install the standard Debian 5.0 package instead of the Ubuntu-specific package. Full instructions can be found in Ubuntu Forums.
For the technical among you - there seems to be an issue with the statically linked package for Ubuntu. The dynamic package for Debian seems to work ...
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Tuesday, August 11th, 2009
Charlie the Groundhog
Originally uploaded by netwizard
A groundhog has been attacking our garden for the past few weeks. After a call to the exterminator he has been finally caught. You can see it in the picture waiting to be transported out of the city.
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