Darn cat! I had rearranged, re-run, and re-bound all the cables behind the entertainment center when we got FiOS installed, only to find today that Oliver had chewed entirely through two of the power adapter cables, and was halfway through the FiOS router's power cable when I caught him!

Searched Google for solutions and compiled this list, ( Read more... )

Just got FiOS installed today. Twice the bandwidth for half the price of Speakeasy DSL (at least, until the 24-month price lock expires and they jack up the cost ( Read more... )

So, as you may have heard by now, there's a new tool called "Firesheep" that lets people easily hijack unencrypted connections to web sites over wireless networks. (article) (article)

The gist of it is: all traffic on a wireless network is public, so if you're logged in to Facebook, Twitter, PayPal, Livejournal, Amazon, whatever... anyone else on ( Read more... )

For some reason, Apple decided that the venerable syslogd, and the quite capable syslog-ng, just weren't good enough. So they went and wrote their own log daemon and API, the Apple System Log back in 10.4. And, oh boy, does it ever suckSo, if you happen to be one of those unfortunate folks whose aslmanager process in running amok, or find yourself ( Read more... )

Oh, this is brilliant. It's a hobby horse of mine to point out how the rush toward instantaneous and broadcast communication has caught up many people in the idea of making that communication continuous about everything they do, with little to no filtering ( Read more... )

I was biking to work this morning, taking a left turn on a green light, having waited through the red and signaled my turn from my position in the rightmost left-turning lane, when another cyclist came zipping along the cross street. Despite the fact that I announced my presence to him (*ringring*) he proceeded straight through the red light and ( Read more... )

Cops beating someone until they die is generally considered reprehensible, or at least I continue to believe and hope so. Cops electrocuting someone until they die... apparently still a gray area ( Read more... )

1 dollar = 100 cents
2 Verizon employees = no sense

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(via Geekologie)