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On Privacy Issues Surrounding Facebook.

brad — Sat, 08 May 2010 23:58:50 +0000

A good talk by Eben Moglen on the implications things like Facebook have on our privacy and personal security. Particularly interesting This speech was made before Facebook newly updated its privacy policies and extended its reach to sharing your personal information with almost every major media outlet online. Worth a watch – skip ahead to [...]

Windows NT – Changing hardware without reinstalling

brad — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 02:06:54 +0000

As part of my ongoing exploration and mastery of the Windows command-line, here’s a tip on how to change motherboards without having to reinstall or repair Windows. This article is for advanced users only, and will render your computer unbootable if you do it wrong. You get one shot at this. The fate of the [...]

Some sensible defaults for Ubuntu

brad — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 13:23:54 +0000

Among Linux distributions, Ubuntu is the undisputedly most well-known for its user-friendliness (with a tip of the hat to Fedora, though Red Hat aren’t spending as much time advertising it as Canonical, Ubuntu’s parent company, does). In most cases when I’m not being a gearhead with Gentoo, and want to use Linux as a sensible [...]

Good utility for HTML > PDF conversion: wkhtmltopdf

brad — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 19:10:06 +0000

Found this on Google code while working to convert 400+ HTML files as saved by Mozilla Firefox. Firefox creates an HTML file and an associated directory containing the stylesheets, images and other content, so it was easy enough to run this against all the HTML files and get a good rendering of all the items [...]

MacOS X: How to convert a number of Pages documents to Word format

brad — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 18:55:38 +0000

Ran into this a couple of weeks ago. If you have someone who ran Pages and needs to convert their library of documents to Word format, do the following. This requires iWork ‘09. Open script editor and paste in the script listed below. Save this script as an application Drag all your Pages documents on top of the [...]

How-to make Windows Explorer open My Computer in Windows 7 instead of Libraries

brad — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 21:35:56 +0000

A minor annoyance of mine is the fact that, when you pin Windows Explorer to the taskbar in Windows 7 (Windows 7 ships this way), clicking the icon takes you to the ‘libraries’ location. Myself, I’d prefer that it go either to my Documents folder or the ‘My Computer’ location, and here’s how to accomplish [...]

Fun with VPS’s – brad-x moves into the cloud

brad — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 19:04:32 +0000

In an effort to do some finance management I’ve switched from a dedicated server at $132/month USD to a VPS hosted by Burst.NET for the eminently reasonable sum of $10/month. For this price I get 50GB of disk space, 1GB of RAM and 1.5GHz of allocated CPU clock – more than I’ll need! I’m also working on bringing [...]

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A Free Virtualization Odyssey, part 1: Proxmox VE

brad — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 21:14:37 +0000

I’ve long been a skeptic about VMware’s enterprise level pricing, and with good reason. I’ve heard it said that it’s often more cost effective to take all your existing servers and plate them in gold, even after one takes into account the ‘cost and power savings in the long-run’ – there are always incidental needs [...]

Google’s Chrome OS is a bad idea.

brad — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 14:10:16 +0000

Google today announced Chrome OS, a Linux based operating system that will boot in seconds and feature the web as its primary application platform (presumably its only platform). This goes further to Google’s plan to ultimately eliminate the power and flexibility of the desktop computer. As application software is delivered from the web, the end-user’s experience [...]

The HTML 5

brad — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 19:20:45 +0000

The new HTML5 standard’s most prominently mentioned new feature is undoubtedly the video tag – this tag enables all compliant browsers to play video embedded in a site with no additional plugins The only problem? The organizations responsible for choosing a video format are undecided. In one corner is H.264, used everywhere from Blu-Ray disc to [...]

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brad-x — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 15:09:34 +0000

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Official FreeBSD Forum

vitaliy — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 03:24:45 +0000

The FreeBSD project is finally, after much work, pleased to announce the availability of an official FreeBSD web based discussion forum. It is our hope that this forum will serve as a public support channel for FreeBSD users around the world and as a complement to our fine mailing lists. You can register and start using [...]

CentOS on Top 500 Supercomputers

vitaliy — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:50:16 +0000

From the Linux list undoubtedly more are using CentOS, but the remarkable fact is that this known 1% CentOS is the same amount as the 5 Windows supercomputers. by Dag Wieers

Upgrade from Fedora 9 to Fedora 10 Preview

vitaliy — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 14:36:05 +0000

Fedora 10 Cambridge is set to be released on November 25th with ton’s of new improvements and features. If you are just as impatient and would like to upgrade to the preview release, without downloading the ISO files, simply update the release files and go through your standard update procedure. [root@infamous ~]# rpm -Uvh ftp://ftp.uci.edu/mirrors/fedora/linux/releases/test/10-Preview/Fedora/i386/os/Packages/fedora-release-9.93-1.noarch.rpm ftp://ftp.uci.edu/mirrors/fedora/linux/releases/test/10-Preview/Fedora/i386/os/Packages/fedora-release-notes-9.92-4.noarch.rpm You [...]

Quagga on RHEL and CentOS

vitaliy — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 22:42:56 +0000

Ivan Pepelnjak of IOS Hints posted an excellent article on installing and running Quagga on Fedora Core over at CT3 wiki. Installing and maintaining Quagga on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and CentOS is even easier since the package manager automatically generates users, init scripts, and provides an easy upgrade path for the future. To install Quagga [...]

GCC 4.3.2 and -march=native

vitaliy — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 17:49:11 +0000

While configuring a new Gentoo Linux workstation I came across -march=native CFLAGS. Glancing over at GCC documentation, as of version 4.3.2 GCC is capable of automatically detecting what CPU you are using and setting appropriate optimization options. 32bit Users CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe" CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}" 64bit Users CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe" CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}"

Software RAID1 on RHEL and CentOS

vitaliy — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 16:11:02 +0000

A visual how to guide to creating basic RAID1 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and CentOS. We will be creating 1 gigabyte swap partition and using the remaining space for /. Boot up Red Hat Enterprise Linux or CentOS installation media. Once you have reached the disk utility select Remove all partitions on selected drives and [...]

IPv4 vs IPv6 Map

vitaliy — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 23:51:22 +0000

Wait… what?

vitaliy — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:49:28 +0000

While browsing around Knol I came across Computer Theology. Computer Theology is the branch of Computer Science and Theology concerned with the study of the role of religion in computer networks. I just checked the calendar, it is not April 1st.