Archive for December, 2008

Tuesday, December 30th, 2008

VirtualBox, Intrepid Ibex and an iPhone

In a house full of computers I’ve been slowing but surely consolidating my digital life around one system:  my HP Pavilion running Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex).  However, every week or two I pull out our old MacBook in order to sync my iPhone.  I could set up a Windows partition, reboot my Linux box to [...]

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Friday, December 26th, 2008

Merry Christmas to ME!

What a great Christmas!
Boo got me a subscription to Make! Whoo hoo! I also got a shirt from ThinkGeek (“I void warranties”) and a fresh set of Dremel tool accessories (which I plan to start wearing out just about immediately).
My parents have long since given up on buying for me (no wonder — [...]

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Saturday, December 13th, 2008

This so happens to me sometimes…

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Sunday, December 7th, 2008

Broken!

Our webhost got pretty badly hacked.  I’m in the process of sanitizing everything and bringing it back up on a new host that seems to:
a) have a clue and
b) doesn’t farm out there tech support to somewhere in the former Eastern Bloc
I’ll be back soon!

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Thursday, December 4th, 2008

Use Good Anti-Virus

Do you use Windows on your computer?
If so, you MUST MUST MUST run full-time anti-virus software. If you don’t you WILL be infected with all sorts of malicious software. In fact, if you run Internet Explorer you can often be infected with viruses, spambots, and other malicious software just by surfing the web.
I [...]

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