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The 49th at 50
Ever been curious about the history of the Union’s largest state? A local radio station has produced a 50-part series of short spots covering the highlights of our 50-year history as a state to celebrate the bicentennial. It’s a good … Continue reading
Security Through Obscurity in the News
Shortly after my previous post regarding security through obscurity, I spotted an article on ZDNet detailing a new vulnerability affecting Cisco wireless routers. If not for the reference to “skyjacking” in the title, I would have stopped reading halfway through … Continue reading
Take Note: Cryptic Error Messages Help No One
I’m a techie. A nerd, if you prefer. When my computers break, I like to fix them. I will spend more hours than most people would consider sane Googling for answers to my current woes rather than take my computer … Continue reading
Security Through Obscurity – Over-demonized?
Anyone who has spent any real time dealing with computer systems’ security has heard the phrase, “Security through obscurity is no security at all.” While I won’t make false claims that I’m an expert in the field of computer security, … Continue reading
RAID 10 with mdadm
If I had to pick one fault of Linux, it would be that for almost everything, the Linux user is inundated with hundreds of possible solutions. This is both a blessing and a curse – for the veterans, it means … Continue reading
New blog! (…yes, again…)
So, here I am again, with yet another new blog. This time, though, I’ve finally broken down and installed a ready-made one instead of trying (yet again) to motivate myself to actually develop one from scratch. Which has always been … Continue reading
