Well, not really. I’m down in Georgia for some Army training, which is why I haven’t posted in quite some time now.
I can tell you this - Georgia is HOT, and it’s only the first part of June. But other than being hot, I’m doing Ok and will try to post more often [...]
Entries Tagged as 'General'
From an Undisclosed Location
June 2nd, 2008 · No Comments
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More Computer Surgery
April 1st, 2008 · No Comments
My wife’s Powerbook has been acting up a bit - not only has it been showing its age performance-wise, the hard drive starting making distressing sounds. We thought about a new Mac Mini for her, but she decided she liked the notebook form factor better. A new MacBook is not in our budget right [...]
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Another silly email math trick
March 25th, 2008 · No Comments
I received the following email today about this “amazing math trick”. The mathematically inclined should see the trick right away, but an explanation follows the puzzle. It is a pretty standard trick, and I find it interesting that many smart people seem memorized by this type of thing. I guess it’s like the easy [...]
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Mod_Rewrite to the rescue
March 4th, 2008 · No Comments
My wife and I have a little on-line store and it was being hammered by some sort of spammish attack. As part of this attack, the bot put a domain (e.g. www.whatever.cn) in the query string of the URL. Since our site would never have a string like that as a parameter, I used mod_rewrite [...]
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Information Security at the mall
February 16th, 2008 · No Comments
A Guard buddy of mine and I found ourselves with some time to kill last weekend and ended up at the local mall. While wandering around we decided to check out a small independent computer store. It had some cool systems, and the usual accessories.
But what made us both laugh (IT security is part of [...]
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