We’ve had an ongoing problem at work with one of the applications we use for tax forms. One of the local forms is horribly incomplete, and I called customer service to have them update the form. After getting someone who knows what they’re doing, I made them aware of the problem and this rep promised [...]
I’m glad to see that Facebook finally cleared up their bad blood with Google and at least put some sort of official app out on the Android Market. One small problem: it sucks horribly.
This is pretty much all you get. You can see your News Feed, your own wall, and you can upload photos from [...]
Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) has spent considerable time drafting a bill that would give the President power to declare a “cybersecurity emergency” on non-government networks and seize control of them under the pretense of protection.
This does not sit well with me. Giving government the capability to control a public, open and free network is where [...]
Geeks, look away. I am about to show everyone our worst nightmare: a horribly disgusting measure of slowness that will readily drive any of us to near suicide.
This stumped me for months and I eventually arrived at the point where I just didn’t care anymore. I blamed it on my computer’s NIC, and then just [...]
It’s been so long since I blogged last. This will be interesting.
A lot of things around me are falling apart. Common Technologies is all but gone and I’m the one tasked with making sure the hosting customers get somewhere they’re taken care of. This somewhere will probably be DreamHost for most of them. Others currently [...]
Configuring and compiling a kernel under Linux is one of the rites of passage of geekdom.
This will mark go number 3 for me, but only because I messed up last time. You see, for the past few weeks my DNS server has been bombarded for root nameserver queries in an apparent DDoS attack on ISPrime. [...]
I’m one of the lucky 2.5 million people that have gotten their hands on the Windows 7 beta. Here’s my impression so far:
That’s the new taskbar. I can’t help but think this new look brings it a lot closer to the Mac OS X dock, because you can place programs on it independently and if [...]
This is what I’ve been doing the past few hours. I know I’ll pay for it dearly in the essence of that I’ll not get any sleep, but it’s pretty cool. I’ve been poring through FCC records all night looking at the owners and locations of all communications towers in the area. It started when [...]
I just told Nick this, but there’s a hell of a line of storms on the way.
This is how I look at what’s coming. I have KML files of the NWS warning polygons and several assorted radar images loaded into Google Earth, including storm relative motion and wind velocity data. (Download here.) This is cool [...]
