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My Copy of Windows Isn’t Genuine Anymore
Over the summer I’ve planned to revamp my CIS2230 System Admin course to include more Windows specific examples. I received a Windows 7 key from my department head in accordance with our college’s MSDN membership. I get Windows installed and type in the key and everything is fine for several months. Last week I opened […]
Wifi fix for Macbook Pro with Snow Leopard
As many other Unibody Macbook Pro users with Snow Leopard have experienced, I too have had fairly poor WiFi connectivity. One suggestion is to boot into 32 bit mode. I normally boot into the 64 bit kernel and during a recent trip I only had access to a hotel’s 802.11b network. In 64bit mode I […]
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Tagged as: Apple, broken, Mac OS X, MacBook, snow leopard, wifi
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Moodle: It’s the experience not the content
A February 25, 2010 posting suggesting that Moodle content is being kept out of the general public has been getting some traction on twitter today. The author correctly points out that most of the learning content on Moodle servers around the world is closed to the general public. The article goes on to lament the […]
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Tagged as: learning management systems, LMS, moodle, on-line learning
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Internet walled-gardens ARE a good idea
Given the growing risks of being connected to the Internet it’s becoming more advisable to connect to those particular services that one wants and exclude the rest. This idea runs counter to a lot of marketing approaches from several companies/products, for example Droid. The Droid vs iPhone marketing plan is to show that Droid is […]
Interesting physical layer implementation
I’m always fascinated by the flexibility of layered networking models. Here is the physical layer of the OSI model using Bongo drums, while still running a proper network stack with TCP/IP. This rules! http://eagle.auc.ca/~dreid/
Failure to adapt
The impending replacement of my main computer has me planning out what things to load and what things to leave behind and as I look at the list of things that I want to put on my machine I wonder if I’m starting to fall behind technically or if I’m simply so used to specific […]
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Tagged as: history, LaTeX, nmh, opinion, Technology, WindowMaker
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Thanks for the nostalgia, Opera Unite
Back in the golden age of the Internet and web 0.9, those people who were lucky enough to have a routable IP address on their desktop workstation used NSCA’s or Netscape’s web server and built their own web pages. skoda.com started out as a single index.html, written in vi, served off a DEC Alpha workstation […]
Data Breach Exposes RAF Staff to Blackmail
Data Breach Exposes RAF Staff to Blackmail Posted using ShareThis Executive summary of the article: Audio recordings of security clearance interviews are stored on an un-encrypted hard drive that goes missing… This illustrates a break down in not just one system, but several. The obvious failure to protect physical security is bad. The hard drive […]
Is Activision tainting Blizzard?
After listening to The Instance #145 and doing a little browsing, it seems that Blizzard is issuing some strangely unBlizzard-like take down notices. Mod writers are being asked not to ask for money, iPhone application developers are being told to cease and desist and a German web comic was told to take down a comic. […]
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Tagged as: Activition, Blizzard, opinion, Tech Business, The Instance
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Companies setting social media policy for employees
Here is a link to a slashdot report about a Fortune 15 company asking employees to sign a social media usage agreement. The agreement seeks to ensure good behavior on the part of the employee, according to the report. http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/05/12/1818245 Two main ideas come to mind: 1. Hire the right people and you don’t […]
