One of the faculty members here at the University just handed me a copy of Linux Pro Magazine's Ubuntu 8.10 special edition. As I was flipping through the pages I came across an article on Linux and Security (page 34 for those who have it). The article talks about managing users, about not doing your work as root, and all the basic fundamentals ( Read more... )

Dear Hollywood:

Please stop raping my childhood, kthxbye.

First you fucked with Bumblee in the Transformers movie, and I almost had to burn the theatre to the goddamn ground. Then there were the endless strings of remakes which you needlessly butchered just to fill your own creative and talentless void; an act which thankfully gave birth to a ( Read more... )

The Klondike™ solitaire game that ships with the iPod Nano 4th gen is quite possibly the hardest solitaire game in all of existence.

I can hang with the best of them, but 1 win out of every 7 or so games? That's frusting. That's C. Viper frustrating.

For my birthday Mike got me a sexy 4th Generation iPod nano... in pink. I've never really been a huge iPod fan (or Apple fan, for that matter), but when I saw the promotions for the Chromatic series in New York awhile back I was tempted. And that temptation grew when Mike purchased a black one of his own a few weeks ago ( Read more... )

There's been a bit of downtime to my posts lately, I've even had troubles keeping up with the slander on the forums (and the Dailies site) and replying to fan mail ( Read more... )

So, in a previous post I mentioned what I'd like to do with the next system that I build. Well, what better way to get a feel if an idea will work than to build a prototype? So I took the dual-boot Linux / Windows bastardization that my system was and turned it into this:

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Not too shabby =)

Pictures here

Tonight Mike and I went to go see Taken. Based upon the previews the movie seemed to be a standard first-quarter action filler movie with stock Hollywood plot #675: Army/CIA/NSA/Montanian with a large gun collection's wife/girlfriend/daughter/sister/mother is kidnapped and aforementioned bad ass goes on a rampage to get them back/avenge their death ( Read more... )

So I'm having the most unnatural urge to try out the Windows 7 Beta. Typically the words "Windows" and "Beta" together in the same sentence is enough to have me running scared, but I find myself curious ( Read more... )

Mike and I just caught up on one of HBO's newer series, Tru Blood. We both were interested by the previews but couldn't watch it because I was in the middle of filming the Brooklyn season. So now that I've been home for a bit we managed to, erm, "creatively acquire" it (in the way that geeks do), and I must say that it was a refreshing take on an ( Read more... )

So, now that I've been getting some form of notoriety, people have had the audacity to ask me all kinds of offensive and personal questions. Just comes with the territory I suppose. Since I've decided to take on the role as educator and mentor, I like to improve and promote awareness, but it is time for a punch to the trachea stupid people. I ( Read more... )