…or how I learned to stop Microsofting and love the Linux
Unity — the VMware Fusion feature for Macs — allows Macs to run Windows and Linux programs on the Macintosh desktop, instead of in a virtual machine window. And as of 5:40am today (US Eastern time), I hear that that feature is coming to the next VMware Workstation version too!
He-LLO, Steve! Security through obscurity doesn’t work! How many times do we have to be burned by your software before you learn that?
At the end of the previous entry in this series, I mentioned that there were still some things that made the backup system I’d developed less than optimal: The backup files aren’t compressed; Backups should always be read-only, even when the media is mounted, so it’s a lot harder for a virus or user-error to …
As mentioned a couple weeks ago, I recently picked up a new piece of hardware, a 1TB MyBook World Edition II. It’s a network-attached external hard drive that turned out to be a full-fledged headless Linux box. I’ve been wanting to change my backup setup to go to it instead of the CygWin ssh server …
My first computer was a used TI-99/4a, given to me as a gift on my twelfth birthday, just after Texas Instruments abandoned it. It was a wonderful little device, despite the quickly-outgrown 16K of memory. One of the best things about it (besides the hardware speech synthesizer module that I got with it) was that …
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Everyone has been waiting for Vista SP1 to come out, thinking that surely it will fix all of the problems that Vista has (like running many programs at half the speed on the same hardware). Well, it doesn’t seem to make a lick of difference: Bottom Line: If you’ve been disappointed with the performance of …
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 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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I’m not sure what happened last night, but when I got up this morning, my development system was showing the log-in screen. I leave it running overnight, so that it can do it’s daily backups, so the screen should have been in low-power mode, and once awakened it should have been on the system-locked screen, …
An associate and I have been using Pidgin (formerly GAIM), with the Off The Record (OTR) plug-in, to securely collaborate on Project X. Although OTR worked, there were times that it didn’t work very well… longer messages got errors instead of being transmitted properly, and some days it didn’t seem to want to work at …