Apr
26
GPG is a great utility used to encrypt and decrypt … anything really. It’s a public/private key infrastructure, and like most of these infrastructures, it’s generally accepted that you share your public key with everyone, and you keep your private key very secret. Most operations involve both the private and public keys in some way. [...]
Feb
13
Facebook Chat, With 40% less suck!
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Consider me about 2 days late to this game, but it looks like Facebook finally turned on XMPP chatting. This means that as opposed to the horrible, godawful, REST-driven javascript chat client, you can chat with a desktop client! To those familiar with dropped or duplicated chat messages, trying to IM someone online to find [...]
Dec
30
SSD: Lots of Bang, not too many bucks
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For Christmas this year, I was gifted with money, given the stipulation that I must spend it in the coming week. Of course, after having viewed this Screencast on installing an SSD in a MacBook Pro, I decided to emulate the procedure and give my laptop a boost of speed.
Aug
3
Why I want to go to Law School
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This is a quick-and-dirty mind dump of why I am considering attending law school next year (and will serve as a boilerplate for the inevitable personal essay to write on every single law school application ever) As many of you who read this know, I grew up being a ‘computer guy’ and an all-out geek. [...]
Dec
1
What your computer does while you wait (and how to make it go faster)
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http://duartes.org/gustavo/blog/post/what-your-computer-does-while-you-wait For the many people who wonder why the computer takes so long to respond even while it’s not ‘doing anything’ (myself included). Of particular interest, while your computer may operate mainly within close caches and system memory, reading data or code from the hard drive can take up to approximately 164,000 times as long [...]
Aug
23
Spoiler-Free Summary of Death Race
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3 minutes of social commentary on corporatism and economic dystopia. [Every other Jason Statham movie ever made] One movie-ending awwww moment.
May
19
Things I’ve learned
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Just got back from a trip to Cancun for the weekend, and I’ve learned a few things: No matter how technologically advanced we get as a civilization, you still need to carry a pen. Laws should be written with some semblance of intelligence assumed in the people. Things move a lot quicker. I appreciate the [...]
May
4
Nine Inch Nails has released another album, this time completely free. It’s shakin up the music industry!!! Of course, Trent has plans to sell physical CD’s and such, but the full album is available to download for free!read more | digg story
Mar
27
Show me who your friends are, and I’ll show you who you are…
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It’s not the data that’s important, it’s the links between them that matter. That’s one of my policies about data, especially now with relational databases allowing businesses and people to see the links between people. Advertisers don’t care who you are, they just care that one person has gone to X, Y, and Z places [...]
Mar
14
Almost 6 Years
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Wow, it’s funny. In Pidgin, one can view the Member Since information on any user on your buddy list (you might have been able to for some time, but I just noticed it). Apparently I’ve been on AIM since May 5th, 2002. Of course, I’ve been on the Internet for quite some time before that, [...]