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I just saw the headline of an article at guardian.co.uk “Edward Snowden’s leaks are misguided – they risk exposing us to cyber-attacks” I’m not a security expert but I’m also not a neophyte either when it comes to systems administration. I would like to ask the question: What are cyber-attacks? What is meant, exactly, by…

Today I finally finished this cool project of installing LED strip lighting around a vanity mirror. I used a spool of a 5M SMD 5050 warm+cool strip with 300 individual lights which I got online for under $20. These are the non-waterproof type for indoor purposes. The back side of the strip has adhesive and…

It is because of companies like Facebook, Yahoo, and Google that there can be such heinous intrusion by government into the private lives of people. The solution is to self-host everything: run your own mail, contacts, calendaring, file hosting, web, and other servers. This can be done and its not too difficult for anyone with…

Watching this new drama and there’s this scene inside the lead character’s apartment. This was the first scene where you can see more of the interior including the stove area with the ventilation hood. There’s something about this interior – it is so airy yet so grounded and Earthy. It seems like the dark hardwood…

Watching this absolutely captivating jdrama based in Japan in 1960 and this one scene opened with a shot of this totally amazing reel-to-reel tape deck which has to be the coolest one I’ve ever seen. The setting is the main character in a room full of police detectives who are concentrating on solving a deep…

While many hard-core Linux people use pure command-line IRC clients like irssi I’ve always liked X-Chat. X-Chat is available for Linux and Windows however its not free. I just recently discovered the ultimate IRC client which is actually based off of X-Chat and is fully free and Open Source, called HexChat. It looks identical to…

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“We didn’t want to collaborate with the facists raping the American public, methodically violating their fundamental human rights. But we did. We didn’t want to go to jail, so we betrayed millions of people who trusted and relied upon us.” There are times when its better to go to jail, when the noble path involves…

This stuff is coming and it couldn’t be too soon. There’s a dire need to combat the rampant hostility, aggression, and bodily endangerment posed by motor vehicles to bicyclists on roadways in the United States. Loud – 112 dB horn for bicycles: Orp – 76/96 dB horn/light for bicycles: This Orp video also shows quite…

Japanese researchers say they’ve identified an enzyme that plays a key role in determining the male-female functions in mammals. … They say genetically male mice whose ability to produce the enzyme was deactivated developed wombs and mammary glands. The mice also gained the ability to give birth. source: NHK; “Researchers identify enzyme for sex determination“…