The New York Giants did not win Super Bowl XLII in my book. I’m not much of a sports fan myself, but I certainly can enjoy having a few beers with friends and family to sit down and watch the Super Bowl. I’ve never lived in a city that has gone into the post-season so that might [...] Continue Reading…
Prism is a new side project by the Mozilla team. It’s a nifty way to run specific web applications in an embedded browser of sorts.
If you haven’t seen it yet, imagine a letterboxed web browser - all you see is the content. There is nothing else showing in the window - back/forward navigation buttons, location [...] Continue Reading…
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I got an email from a professor today asking for some input on Java and Solaris… 15-20 minutes of my time is not asking much… but it seems like Sun is the type of guy who is offering some candy from the sliding door of a panel van…
We are inviting you to provide feedback and input by participating in [...] Continue Reading…
In a shocking discovery, I’ve found that all three (Linus Torvalds, Bill Gates, and Steve Jobs) shop at Banana Republic. Steve Jobs stands out (although not much) by ditching the under-sweater collar, and going with a mock turtle.
C’mon guys - ditch the sweater-look-a-like bullshit already!
When most people think of repetitive stress injuries (RSI for short) they probably think about ergonomic keyboards, comfortable chairs, good posture and workspace positioning. In addition to those common cures (which are sometimes really expensive) there is a tool called Workrave that assists you in avoiding RSI by reminding you to just take a break.
It’s available in the [...] Continue Reading…
Tags: repetitive stress injuries, repetitive stress injury, RSI, Workrave
Sean Moss-Pultz was kind enough to answer a few questions with fsckin w/ linux. He’s got some pretty interesting answers to questions plaguing geeks and non-geeks alike, such as the eternal debate on which is better - Ninjas or Pirates? Keep reading for some candid responses from the CEO of the company behind the Dash Express GPS [...] Continue Reading…
Tags: anti iphone, dash express, freerunner, Linux, neo1973, openmoko
In a previous article, I talked about using shred to securely delete files. Now we’ll delve into using encrypted volumes in Linux to secure our data in the first place, so that we don’t need to use programs like shred. Along the way, we’ll benchmark the raw performance of an encrypted volume and compare the results to [...] Continue Reading…
Tags: benchmarks, cryptsetup, Encrypted, Gparted, hashalot, Linux, luksformat, Partitions
About 2 months ago, I convinced my girlfriend to try out Linux for a month after a really nasty bit of spyware infected her computer. This isn’t a bash on Microsoft, but it happened twice in about a month.
Unfortunately, a roommate who pays a portion of the internet bill (and thus welcome to use the computer, which is [...] Continue Reading…
Tags: Girlfriend, Linux
Hard drive encryption (and to a lesser extent, secure hard drive erasing) has been in the news regarding child pornography crossing the US border, government officials around the world erasing incriminating emails and other nefarious headlines.
The one that caught my eye was of a person crossing the border from Canada into the United States.
His laptop was searched in customs. [...] Continue Reading…
Tags: , Erase Files Permanently, Linux, Secure Wipe, Shred, Unrecoverable Erase
This holiday season, I was an extremely lucky recipient of a Sony HDR-SR5 video camera with a whopping 40GB hard drive inside.
When I opened it, the first question in my head was not atypical of a Linux users’ train of thought:
“Is it compatible with Linux?”
The answer was a tiny bit more complicated than I imagined, and immersed me into [...] Continue Reading…
Tags: AVCHD, FFMPEG, HDR, HDR-SR5, LDCOD, Linux, M2TS, m2tstoavi, MTS, Sony, SR1, SR2, SR3, SR4, XPORTHDMV
