So everyone is freaking about CVE-2014-0160, or the Heartbleed bug, mainly because so very much internet communication relies on that little ol' https you see at the beginning of the url. We rely on the security of our communications, and learning that a crucial package underpinning the whole shebang has a vulnerability is...not good. ( More... )

I have long used amaranthtraces and thraesja's Exalted Planet Designation Generator whenever I need a planet designation for one of my stories. It (not-quite) randomly generates a planet designation (e.g., P2G-721) based on canon rules. Totally awesome. Alas, their domain expired recently as they no longer are in the fanfic writing biz, but I contacted them and they are ( Read more... )

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esteefee sez: can't think of what to give your loved ones for the holidays? ha! think back up solutions. if the ones you love aren't backing up their data, then now is the perfect time to fix what could possibly be a catastrophic future problem. nothing hurts worse than reaching for beloved pictures or home movies that just don't exist anymore ( Read more... )

esteefee haz no internets ( Read more... )

please contact Human Resources. (at my old office, we would have called this a handbook handjob violation):
esteefee: and I will have to email IT to request the CNAME change to point to the new IP addy ( Read more... )

A missing scene from AGoS (in the train) that will just break you: The Most Natural Thing by Jen Lee ( Read more... )

QotD: Now you can hold your phone to your face and say, "Remember to feed the kids when I get home," and Siri will instantly create a Reminder and a satellite will geolocate you, and when you walk in your front door your phone will buzz and your lights will flash and Siri will send a bolt of hard electricity straight into your spinal cord (or ( Read more... )

having a lot of LJ woes? on lj-status they suggest deleting your livejournal cookies helped some folks (in Firefox->Preferences->Privacy click on "remove individual cookies" and search for livejournal. Then highlight all cookies and click Remove Cookies.)

didn't work for me, though, but I discovered using Opera did the trick. go figure! download and ( Read more... )

that which esteefee does not recommend: tilting a bowlful of warm, oatmealie milk onto one's running MacBook Pro.

that which esteefee does highly advocate: regular TimeMachine back-ups.

that which esteefee did entertain herself with this afternoon: purchasing a brandy-new MacBook to replace her old one, which was on its last legs, anyway, even before said oatmilk ( Read more... )