Archive

01 Aug 2022
New Content
28 Jul 2022
UEFI "Bootkit" Discovered in China
28 Jul 2022
Emacs Tables Cheat Sheet
27 Jul 2022
Git ignoring .gitignore fix
27 Jul 2022
Emacs Encrypted Editing Mode
25 Jul 2022
(Not) Using Docker on SDF.org
25 Jul 2022
No Docker on the Mac Pro 3,1
21 Jul 2022
Dovecot SSL Configuration
18 Jul 2022
Obsidian to Web with `mkdocs-material`
16 Jul 2022
Obsidian HTML Export Options
13 Jul 2022
Throwback Tuesday: 2017-07-23
11 Jul 2022
Setting up Logstash on Debian 'Bullseye'
23 Jun 2022
"Sap driver initialization failed" message on Lenovo T430s with Debian Bullseye
23 Jun 2022
Notes on Bluetooth trackers and beacons
19 May 2022
iPhone SE camera resolution specs
01 Mar 2022
Modern Armor in Ukraine
18 Jan 2022
Updates on the Dumpster Drobo b800fs
17 Jan 2022
Drobo b800fs Fan Replacement
05 Jan 2022
Replace last string in each line of text using 'sed'
03 Jan 2022
The Fifty Year Computer
15 Dec 2021
Vacation Reading: "Computers Are Bad"
01 Dec 2021
iChat to EML Converter
06 Sep 2021
Dead Internet Theory
20 Sep 2019
Tasmota 'Smart Plug' Reflashing With 'tuya-convert' (2018)
02 Apr 2019
For Whom The Chronological Timeline Tolls
21 Feb 2019
Securing a Home Server with LetsEncrypt and Cloudflare DDNS
21 Jan 2019
Windows 10 on the Dell E6410
21 Jan 2019
From College Credit to Honey Boo Boo
16 Jan 2019
No Thanks and Bad Math, Mr. Gladwell
15 Jan 2019
Learning History the Hard Way
14 Jan 2019
Existential Risk Management
07 Jan 2019
“One Weird Trick” for Git on ExFAT
13 Dec 2018
Foot, Meet Bullet: Google, Hangouts, and the Android Platform
09 Dec 2018
I'll Have What They're Smoking: Uber IPO Edition
08 Dec 2018
Welcome to the Glue Factory
09 Nov 2018
How many acres do you eat?
14 Aug 2018
I Have Met the Bullshit Web
01 Apr 2018
DIY Home Automation (2018)
12 Nov 2017
Time Lock Encryption and Other Developments
30 Oct 2017
Add "DRAFT" stamp to a PDF file
09 Aug 2017
Netflix: Out of the Frying Pan, Into the Fire
24 Jul 2017
Cost Disease: The Economic Superbug
23 Jul 2017
Jekyll Migration Complete
21 Jul 2017
A Future That Never Came
21 Jul 2017
Open source software for nonprofits
17 Jul 2017
Notes on laptop reliability (2009)
19 Jun 2017
FLAC to MP3 in one line
15 Jun 2017
Jekyll date format string
14 May 2017
How to SCP to a path with spaces in it
01 May 2017
Site to Site VPN Options
02 Apr 2017
Expanding an LVM Volume
25 Mar 2017
Goodbye, Google Talk
24 Mar 2017
Blosxom "Calendar" Cache Issue
12 Mar 2017
Hacker News Rehashes Encryption (Again)
11 Mar 2017
NYT on Crypto
10 Feb 2017
Another day, another fix
20 Oct 2016
"Launch under Attack"
13 Oct 2016
Blocking Yahoo's annoying login popup on Flickr pages
01 Oct 2016
Cloud-Free DIY Home Automation Links (2016)
26 Sep 2016
Connecting to an SMB share from Windows XP
25 Sep 2016
Linux "motion" output options/conversion
14 Sep 2016
Interesting times, 2016 edition
11 Sep 2016
'They shall sing to thy name': Rick Rescorla
09 Sep 2016
Why everyone hates microhousing
26 Aug 2016
Schneier on the NSA's zero-day stash
26 Aug 2016
Python 'loop skipping', or, "you're not crazy, your code's just broken"
23 Aug 2016
Patterson's Dictum: On "technological casualties"
22 Aug 2016
Dead on arrival: Digital Compact Cassette and the AHRA
16 Aug 2016
From Tijuana with love: Neuromama
15 Aug 2016
VeraCrypt in the news
12 Aug 2016
Towards a 'TiVo for radio'
11 Aug 2016
Don't be fooled by 5G
11 Aug 2016
Cool thing: The "Tvheadend" project
10 Aug 2016
The FCC's "intentional duopoly"
09 Aug 2016
Ghosts of elections past
05 Aug 2016
Deflating Uber
04 Aug 2016
Blosxom modules on Github
04 Aug 2016
Thinking the unthinkable (about Trump) in 2016
03 Aug 2016
Alex Steffen's "Night, Hoover Dam"
27 Jul 2016
Herman Kahn and the 'Flying Car Problem'
27 Jul 2016
Debian 8 'Jessie' XFCE mute button fix
26 Jul 2016
When Von Braun almost beat Sputnik
25 Jul 2016
On the Defense Budget
23 Jul 2016
Blosxom 'Feedback' plugin updated
23 Jul 2016
For the love of Google
21 Jul 2016
Comments now work again
24 Jun 2016
Enabling Dell E6410 "DualPoint Stick" scrolling in Debian 'Jessie'
20 Mar 2016
Notes on resetting the Linksys SRW2024P Ethernet switch
05 Sep 2015
Mac + VMWare P2V Procedure
05 Sep 2015
So About that 'Virtual Dual Boot' Cleverness...
28 Jan 2015
Consulting Life Protips
30 Dec 2014
Mac OS 10.6.8 ‘Virtual Dual Boot' Migration using VMWare Fusion
29 Dec 2014
Get the F--k to sleep, Mac OS X Edition
14 Jul 2014
Quick Tip: Fixing High CPU Usage by Outlook Mac 2011
08 Sep 2013
Initial thoughts on the "BULLRUN" revelations
22 Feb 2013
Efficiency
26 Sep 2012
"No Directory" error on login, after upgrading to Scientific Linux 6.3
01 Aug 2012
Droning About Drones: Flying Wings and Gyroscopes
08 Apr 2012
VM/370 on Linux with the Hercules Emulator
16 Mar 2012
Samsung Galaxy SII WiFi Calling: A Quick Look
20 Jun 2011
Mt. Gox Breach Summary
01 Jun 2011
Bitcoin: You Too Are Mortal
31 Jan 2011
Book Recommendation: The Victorian Internet
27 Dec 2010
Rsync to a custom SSH destination port
26 Dec 2010
"The Joel Test"
22 Nov 2010
What the Internet is Reading (Apparently)
13 Oct 2010
Removing Dot-Underscore Files
07 Sep 2010
"Optimistic" Thought Experiments and the 'Equity Premium Puzzle'
24 May 2010
RITEKS04: Learn from my mistake
28 Apr 2010
Flickr Referrer Data: Going Once, Going Twice...
07 Apr 2010
On the Cost of Digital Photography, Pt. 2
09 Dec 2009
On "Good" vs. "Bad" Managers
04 Nov 2009
SVN "Add Everything" One-Liner
04 Nov 2009
Dijkstra: On "Users"
20 Oct 2009
Smoking, Hairy Golfballs
18 Oct 2009
What Yelp could learn from Netflix
07 Oct 2009
Would you pay for a more secure GMail?
11 Sep 2009
Quicken 2006 and "OL-249" Error, Solved
01 Jul 2009
In Defense of Mileage-Based Road Taxes
12 Jun 2009
Nokia E-Series X.509 Support Broken
08 Jun 2009
The Unrealized Promise of Short Sales
08 Jun 2009
T-Mobile (Allegedly) Hacked, Again
23 May 2009
'Transactional' versus 'Revolving' credit
17 May 2009
On the Cost of Digital Photography
16 May 2009
Getting Out From Under the TARP
10 May 2009
On "The Stock Market Game"
08 May 2009
Decoding Obfuscated JavaScript
05 May 2009
Finem Respice on 'The Cult of Buoyancy'
09 Feb 2009
Continuously-recorded Audio 'Life Logs'
09 Feb 2009
More on SIP Portblocking
02 Feb 2009
Comcast Blocking Port 5060?
21 Jan 2009
Very Early Spring Cleaning
20 Jan 2009
Must-Visit: Museum of Communications, Seattle
02 Dec 2008
Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy "Can't set the locale" Error
29 Nov 2008
RGE on Credit and Trade
05 Nov 2008
Lessons From Across the Pond
04 Nov 2008
It's Still Your Grandfather's Stock Market
04 Nov 2008
Calculated Risk on Housing Prices
27 Sep 2008
Hedging Against Dollar Inflation
05 Sep 2008
Obsessively Cool Site of the Day: Leadholder.com
31 Aug 2008
Analog Cable TV over Cat 7A
31 Aug 2008
Python and Writing to "mbox" Files
24 Aug 2008
Home Power-Line Networking Basics
12 Aug 2008
Apple Mail Causing 'Rendering Errors' on Outlook 2007
03 Aug 2008
BlackBerry to Macintosh Tethering
03 Aug 2008
BlackBerry Bluetooth Tethering for Mac
31 Jul 2008
The Price/Capacity Sweet Spot
22 Jul 2008
E-Gold Indictment: No Longer a Farce
18 Jul 2008
Richard Fisher's Speech on Fiscal Policy
17 Jul 2008
Bear Baiting and Bull Riding
17 Jul 2008
Forbes' "World's Best Hotel Bars"
16 Jul 2008
Working with Diacritics in Emacs
15 Jul 2008
Time to Stick a Fork in FTP?
14 Jul 2008
"Just How Stupid Are We?" Very Stupid.
04 Jul 2008
Killfiling "MI5 Persecution" Spam With slrn
01 Jul 2008
Netflix Saves Profiles, Face
26 Jun 2008
Cygwin, rxvt, and slrn Display Problem
14 Jun 2008
Thoughts on Diamond's 'Collapse'
13 Jun 2008
SPA-2102 & Callcentric Registration Issues
10 Jun 2008
'Collapse' and the Corporation
07 Jun 2008
Notes on VoIP Setup
05 Jun 2008
VoIP "Infodump"
04 Jun 2008
Where Are They Now: RBOC Edition
02 Jun 2008
Cheap Gigabit Switches
02 Jun 2008
Linksys VoIP ATAs Compared
16 May 2008
Windows T-Mobile DUN Setup
08 May 2008
First Thoughts On "Gang Leader For a Day"
07 May 2008
The Survivalist Fallacy
07 May 2008
A Million Monkeys...
05 May 2008
The Basics of Writing a Technical Report
01 May 2008
Recent Reading, May 2008 Edition
01 May 2008
Subversion and Filesystem Metadata
18 Apr 2008
Games in 50 Years
18 Apr 2008
Closing the Stupidity Gap
18 Apr 2008
FT: "Procreation does not result in wealth creation"
02 Apr 2008
COBOL on Linux
05 Mar 2008
A Quick Intro to syslog-ng
04 Mar 2008
Fun With Old Hardware: All Booted Up
29 Feb 2008
For Want of a Screw (or 20)
16 Feb 2008
Innards of "the Beast"
14 Feb 2008
A Pipe Full of Tar
14 Feb 2008
Fun With Obsolete Hardware
08 Feb 2008
Titlesquatting: The 85,759 Books of Philip M. Parker
08 Feb 2008
Ruffini on Huckabee and Romney
07 Feb 2008
TrueCrypt for Mac
05 Feb 2008
Quasi-DIY FireWire Swappable Drive Enclosure
30 Jan 2008
On Spamgourmet Being Awesome
30 Jan 2008
The False Dilemma of Security vs. Privacy
26 Jan 2008
Best. Product. Ever. The iPod Dock / TP-Roll Holder
25 Jan 2008
Better Late Than Never: Thoughts on Roe v. Wade
25 Jan 2008
Polls, Polls, Polls
21 Jan 2008
McCain Primary-Win Analysis
20 Jan 2008
Detroit Public School Books Depository
20 Jan 2008
The Strange Saga of "1MDC"
18 Jan 2008
AOL Adopts XMPP for Instant Messaging
07 Jan 2008
Globalsecurity.org Timeline of 6 September 07 Airstrike Coverage
06 Jan 2008
Shameless Post-Xmas Plug: The Box by Marc Levinson
07 Dec 2007
Flat-file to XML Log Conversion in Python
06 Dec 2007
The Unified Logging Format
30 Nov 2007
GPG Signature + S/MIME Encryption = Unreadable Mail
23 Nov 2007
Permissive Action Links: DRM for WMDs
09 Nov 2007
Fixing "Leaking" Emacs Background Color
08 Nov 2007
WTF ".webloc"?
05 Nov 2007
End-to-End Encrypted Webmail
02 Nov 2007
Revised "Right to Privacy Primer"
01 Nov 2007
Contact Information and Feedback
31 Oct 2007
On Wikipedia and Being "Encyclopediac"
30 Oct 2007
IndieHIG: Guerilla Interface Guidelines
27 Oct 2007
Using Unicode in GNU nano on OS X
27 Oct 2007
Some Notes on Gmail's New IMAP
26 Oct 2007
SDF "Content-Type" Silliness
24 Oct 2007
Obvious Uses of the Internet: Animated Knots
23 Oct 2007
Real Men Don't Use Word
22 Oct 2007
Google, Microsoft, and the Open Content Alliance
22 Oct 2007
Walter Mossberg on the State of Cellular
19 Oct 2007
T-Mobile, Motorola, GPRS, and Mac "Howto" Article
07 Oct 2007
Ruminations on Rememble
27 Nov 2006
Technological "Solution" to Drunk Driving
21 Jul 2006
CleanFlicks Confusion and the "Family Movies Act"