I’m in a different hotel today, one that is served by Cox Internet, and I immediately discovered that the SSH redirection which worked flawlessly yesterday completely fails here. I can start the secure shell, and it works for a couple minutes or a certain number of bytes, then I get a “connection reset by peer” …
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I’m on the road today, writing this from a hotel’s unsecured wireless Internet connection. Call me paranoid if you wish, but I know how easy it would be for someone to snoop on any Internet traffic over such an unprotected wireless connection. Most of my e-mail accounts already use SSL encryption, but there’s one that …
I just don’t get it. Some people put on a perfectly-working watch and it suddenly starts losing time. Technology seems to hate them. This guy is a case in point (and his article prompted this entry), but I’ve known other people who had the same problem, including some of my relatives. On the other hand, …
I was at the store yesterday, picking up a pack of recordable DVDs for backup purposes, when I saw that the MyBook external drives had dropped in price. I’d been drooling over them for a long time, and that proved to be the final straw… I walked out with a one-terabyte dual-drive network-accessible version. As …
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Joshua Lee pointed out an interesting item on the Terminally Incoherent blog a few days ago, on video game “addiction.” I have an obsessive personality, as well as problems with depression, so I have a good idea why people might think they’re “addicted” to a game. I also know why they aren’t, though I couldn’t …
The One Laptop Per Child project is now offering one of their rugged machines for you and one for a child in a developing nation, for a total price of $399 (only 13 days left on that offer, and only if you live in North America). And Wal-Mart has apparently already sold out of the …
What’s this — a Republican Congressman from Texas who is willing to buck the trend? Mr. Paul has stood out from the Republican field for his opposition to the war in Iraq. In the speech he argues that the fight against terrorism is threatening American democracy. “The American Republic is in remnant status,” he says. …
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“…in unpopularity.” The only real surprise to me is that it took him this long to do it.
“The Rotterdam Natural History Museum has appealed for somebody — anybody — to give it a single crab louse for its collection, amid fears they may be dying out.” Apparently a style of bikini wax (the “Brazilian,” which removes practically all of a woman’s public hair) might be killing them off. “‘When the bamboo forests …
I guess we’ll see tomorrow whether cyber-jihadists have gotten a clue.