Homage to Icarus

I went ahead and got the Adamo from Dell, so here’s my review of it, and what I did to set it up and get it work­ing the way I wanted.
Firstly, on the hard­ware: AC adapters is the weak point of this guy. For my old MacBook, I had three: one in my bag, one […]

Let me pref­ace this by stat­ing a few things: if you are going to tell me that girls are inher­ently bad at tech­nol­ogy, pro­gram­ming, or are get­ting their panties in a twist, please fuck the fuck off. I feel con­fi­dent in judg­ing you a waste of an oppor­tu­nity for a per­fectly good pair of ovary […]

[There’s a whole bunch of mean­der­ing aca­d­e­mic pon­tif­i­cat­ing and me tak­ing myself too seri­ously. About two thirds of the way down it gets really good, though. I promise. Also, the woman is now online and back in school. –JC]
So appar­ently, some­one was try­ing to take online courses, ordered the cheap­est Dell with a CD  —  which happens […]

It’s prob­a­bly worth not­ing at this point that there are a few lessons to the debian OpenSSL débâcle:

There is now a corol­lary to “do not write your own cryp­to­graphic rou­tines”: “do not fix bugs in some­one else’s cryp­to­graphic rou­tines.” If there is a anno­tated view of the OpenSSL tree (I don’t know/don’t care), the DD […]

Cool lit­tle shot of back­ing up a DVD in Ubuntu via Thoggen.