I’m watching something scary. It made me understand how people can be indoctrinated into any school of thought. People believe that which incites their emotions must be true. But what if the reason you have the feeling is because those spouting the doctrine are simply tapping into universal fears or desires? You can do...
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Facebook: Mass erasing wall posts
I’ve been trying for a while to clear my Facebook wall. The less public information out there, the better. Facebook purposely makes it tedious to remove information from their service because it is in their best interest for it to remain there. I found...
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I belong in an age when computers were not said to multitask, but rather to timeshare. When the thought of asking a person to multitask would be laughable because people took pride in doing a job and doing it well, something not possible when...
OpenSolaris is dead. Long live OpenIndiana?
I have been very gung-ho about OpenSolaris in the past. There are some fantastic technologies in it. Unfortunately, when Oracle bought Sun they essentially killed the openness of OpenSolaris....
HFSC traffic shaping for QOS on DD-WRT: New test
After reading more about HFSC, I modified the original script I posted here. The main changes are: Used a different syntax to specify the different classes. Changed P2P ports...
HFSC traffic shaping for QOS on DD-WRT
The situation: To have a backup to the backups of my computer offsite, I decided to trial BackBlaze. Their willingness to share parts of their storage architecture as well...