fighting the lack of good ideas
A few years ago I wrote about why I like good vampire and zombie stories. I had an epiphany this week related to that, that I thought you’d all find interesting. If vampires exist, zombies can not exist [long] in the same universe. Why? Because they’d be eliminating the only source of food for the…
I came across pi-hole recently – an ad blocker and DNS service that you can run on a Raspberry Pi in Raspian (or any Debian or Ubuntu (ie Debian-like)) system. Using pi-hole should obviate the need for running ad-blockers in your browser (so long as you’re on a network that is running DNS queries through pi-hole)….
Given the ridiculous popularity of Facebook, their huge datacenter investments, super-resilient computing models, etc, I’m very surprised they haven’t gotten into the cloud computing business like Amazon’s AWS, Google’s Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Digital Ocean, etc.
As shared in the most recent Crypto-Gram, Bruce Schneier’s monthly newsletter. 1980s – kid hackers, nerds and Richard Pryor 1990s – Techno, virtual reality and Steven Seagal’s Apple Newton 2000s – Real life hackers, computer punks and Hugh Jackman dancing
For a variety of reasons related to package versions and support contracts, I was unable to use the Red Hat built KVM image of RHEL 7.2 for a recent project. (The saga of that is worthy of its own post – and maybe I’ll write it at some point. But not today.) First thing I…
Thanks, Apple. About time someone did this! We can now charge a laptop from either side. Like should have been possible for decades. Reference – Do any laptops exist with multiple power connectors?