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Category Archives: Technology
It’s DR time!!!
With the hurricane season at it’s peak, I’ve decided to include a section focused on DR. I hope to add links to sites detailing weather and EOC information for the United States. If anyone elsewhere would like to contribute, please email me at <mike at itadmins dot org>. I’d also like to add sections convering [...] Continue reading
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Wake up call for Mozilla
Today, Google relased Chrome Beta, an open source web browser based on Firefox and Webkit. I am currently writing this post from Chrome. The biggest benefit I see to Google’s method of writing this program is the intense resource management. If one tab locks up, the others are fine. From a technical perspective, this is [...] Continue reading
Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide
As a System Administrator, I am constantly looking for the ultimate commands to make my job easier. Moving files around, renaming files for archival purposes, downloading updates, and building reports are a lot easier with scripting. This is another document for the reference library, folks.
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Take that, Comcast
Score one for the consumer. The head of the FCC has recently announced that they are proceeding with charges against Comcast for traffic shaping, or selectively slowing down and blocking specific protocols on their internet service.
I haven’t been a very big advocate of bitorrent, but this will also prevent ISPs from messing with services such [...] Continue reading
Primative Usability Tests
As a contribution to the community, I am performing a crude usability test. For years, bookstores have been selling thousands of self-help teach yourself office application books. My curiosity focused on a book that my wife recently finished. I have in front of me an Excel 2003 book and over the next few months, I [...] Continue reading
Linux Data Link Library for The Ironman Watch
Ahhh… the good old days. I had ones of these DataLink watches when I started flying on my first tech job. It saved a ton of time and helped me reschedule several flights, including one where I was north of the border without my luggage. Forget about cellphones, pdas, and wireless internet [...] Continue reading
Critical Security Updates to Ubuntu and Debian
Just a heads up to Ubuntu and Debian users out there. There is a major bug in openSSL that needs to be patched on all Debian and Ubuntu systems and you must regenerate your ssh keys. I’ve included some links to the gory details:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2008/msg00152.html
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-612-1
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SSL in Firefox 3
To my dismay today, I ran into a problem with Firefox 3 Beta 5 on Hardy Heron. Apparently, Mozilla has decided to put the screws to people who sign their own certificates or use certs not issued by their own domain by creating a four step process to bypass the error message. Here is an [...] Continue reading
Making Thunderbird Open Hyperlinks in Firefox on Ubuntu
This one was driving me nuts and I finally found a solution. For several weeks, Thunderbird has not been opening links I click on them. I found a solution here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=502651
Open Thunderbird version 2.0.0.14
Go to the Edit menu
Click on Preferences
Click the Advanced tab
Click the Config Editor button.
An about:config window will open up.
In the Filter [...] Continue reading
Zotero, a research extension for Firefox
I stumbled upon an amazing research tool toady while I was searching for a download management Firefox extension today. Zotero is more than just a download tool. It is a literary reasearch tool which allows you to track web citations, bookmarks, and the like from within the browser. I would traditionally create a Bookmark folder [...] Continue reading