Geek’s Corollary to Clarke’s Law
I just saw this on Groklaw (from commenter “PSaltyDS”) and had to grab it: Geek’s Corollary to Clarke’s Law “Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.” Perfect. 🙂
Archive of posts filed under the Interests category.
Topics on my particular interests.
“Got allergies? Tiny discovery nothing to sneeze at”
This is the kind of science-fiction-like technology that I love hearing about! I don’t suffer from allergies much, but GoddessJ does, several times a year. This should make her very happy.
Encrypted File Systems, Part 5
As described earlier, I’ve been trying to come up with a way to make the automatically-mounted TrueCrypt-encrypted home directory, on my Ubuntu Linux machine, also automatically unmount when I log off. I’ve finally done so, and I’ve learned some fascinating things about Linux in the process.
The WebOS
Anyone who studies Microsoft quickly figures out that it’s collective corporate personality is paranoid. Anything that even might be competition someday is either bought up or crushed mercilessly. It didn’t make sense to me at the time, but that’s how it viewed the Internet at first, and why it moved to kill off Netscape. It …
The Jungle, Revisited
The jungle is getting ever more dangerous. If you’re not using Firefox with NoScript, I’d highly recommend that you start doing so NOW!
Encrypted File Systems, Part 4
When I finished part three of this series, I didn’t think there was much left to describe. The only thing that I was still puzzled about was how to automatically unmount the TrueCrypt drive when I logged off (which I haven’t had a chance to work on yet); once I’d finished that, I would be …
Encrypted File Systems, Part 3
As described earlier, I’ve been trying to set up an encrypted home directory for my Ubuntu Linux system on my notebook computer, to protect my data if the hardware is stolen. I finally got my TrueCrypt drive formatted to a proper Linux file system; next up was figuring out how to automatically mount it when …
Encrypted File Systems, Part 2
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But in practice, there is. Jan L. A. van de Snepscheut As described in part 1 of this entry, I attempted to format a TrueCrypt-encrypted drive to the standard Linux ext3 format. As alluded to there, this turned out to be more difficult than I …
Encrypted File Systems, Part 1
The last three iterations of my main computer have been notebooks, rather than desktops. Although there are some major disadvantages to that (limited expandability, limited graphics capabilities, much harder to repair or swap parts), there’s one huge advantage — portability. I can literally take my work with me anywhere, even to places that don’t have …
“US prof plans to send message back in time”
This is an interesting article. As I understand it, the Theory of Relativity says nothing about which way time has to flow — the equations work in either direction. And I believe I recall that it was the legendary Dr. Richard Feynman who suggested that quantum entanglement might be due to temporal hanky-panky (though I …
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