I was reminded, when the hub-bub about Google Buzz started (particularly, the ways in which it ignored personal privacy), how happy I am to avoid Google services for private information. It's one of the reasons I run my own server for mail and web stuff rather than rely on them. At the same time, some of their services to store and comb over and ( Read more... )

The documentation is great, and over the last decade I've gotten very used to being able to read man pages and figure out how to do whatever I want ( Read more... )

More bad? 2 girls 1 cup. (Don't, don't, DON'T Google that ( Read more... )

Geek heavy post: ignore freely.

( servers and free software and security )

So I'm working on migrating my other blog away from LiveJournal, because LJ kind of sucks for public blogs. Requiring everyone who wants to comment to register, or show up as "Anonymous," is a barrier to entry that few have the motivation to bother overcoming ( Read more... )

Everything works fine now. I made one small change to the WEP on my access point that shouldn't have had any effect... but it seems to have improved things markedly. I want to take a look at the code, actually, and see if there's a clear problem with it, but I suspect that the change I made wasn't actually related to it working.

When I was installing OpenBSD on the laptop, I naturally set up the keyboard to my liking: Dvorak, with Caps Lock remapped to Ctrl (incidentally, I can't find a solid history of the Ctrl key, and where it was placed historically, online - but suffice to say that having a Ctrl key there predates my use of computer keyboards). This was fine - more ( Read more... )

( I am very long-winded when it comes to my history with computers... )

...not impressed ( Read more... )

I had a geeky epiphany this evening. Pardon me if it seems basic, but... what the hell.

( geekgeekgeek )