August 23rd, 2010 by Bolster
- Why PulseAudio?
- The Freesound Project Aggregates Creative Commons Licensed Sound Effects [Sound Effects]
- ONE LAST CHANCE TO SAVE THE HOTEL PENNSYLVANIA
- Venting Frustration Will Only Make Your Anger Worse [Mindhacks]
- U.S. Is Bankrupt and We Don't Even Know It: Laurence Kotlikoff – Bloomberg
- “So the IMF is saying that closing the U.S. fiscal gap, from the revenue side, requires, roughly speaking, an immediate and permanent doubling of our personal-income, corporate and federal taxes as well as the payroll levy set down in the Federal Insurance Contribution Act.”
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“This is what happens when you run a massive Ponzi scheme for six decades straight, taking ever larger resources from the young and giving them to the old while promising the young their eventual turn at passing the generational buck.”
I’ve had the opportunity, for a while now, to relocate to the US. I have had various reasons for not doing so, but one of them is knowing that something drastic will happen to the US economy and way of life. Not knowing when is the problem however.
- Dutch Hackers Create Wi-Fi Sniffing Drone
- Change this into a blimp and I’m sold… Might do this…
- Brett Domino: Bad Romance (Lady Gaga) – Korg Monotron and Kaossilator
- Brett Domino: Bad Romance (Lady Gaga) – Korg Monotron and Kaossilator
- Unsuck It Translates Awful Corporate Speak into Plain English [Office Culture]
- Embed Google Calendar on Your Linux Desktop [Linux]
- I have been looking for this for years and, as usual, Lifehacker provides!
- A Revised Taxonomy of Social Networking Data
- As always Bruce has a clear and useful way to organise semantic data… Screw cryptography; he should just be the librarian of the net’s information!
- A Revised Taxonomy of Social Networking Data
- Geeks.com Provides Great Deals on Outdated Hardware [Shopping]
- The Sorcerer's Apprentice, but with money: another look at HFT
- I just keep getting HFT related stories today!
- What’s the Biggest Issue on the Internet Now?
- As usual, Ben manages to beat me to the punch (I had a nice draft on this subject nearly finished
) but does it alot better than I would have! The technical and psychological issues with semantic web are far more difficult than I think most people realised, but we’re getting there… slowly
- 08.02.2010
- How to Turn Your Android Phone into a Fully-Automated Superphone [Automation]
- 1dl.us Is a Swiss Army Knife of Web Utilities [Webapps]
- Wi-Fi WPA2 Vulnerability Found
- Well, it had to happen eventually. This doesn’t mean tat its any easier to get INTO a network, but it does allow snooping on previously secure client-AP traffic.
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August 4th, 2010 by Bolster
Remember that little economic apocalypse that happened a few years ago? You may remember it as the day your 401(k) dropped a digit or 3; those short sighted (w/b)ankers and middle management that essentially collectively said “You want some money? Sure, go ahead!” to the entire world and didn’t think about where it was coming from, while getting paid sums of money that would make Scrouge McDuck blush. Well, turns out they have been too greedy at home (no suprise).
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Tags: career, economy, finance, high performance
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July 24th, 2010 by Bolster
Ubuntu is one of those polarising technologies; Its really easy to use on a recreational basis, or as part of a institution/business wide rollout, but heartbreakingly awkward to use ‘alone’ within an entrenched business setting.
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Tags: citrix, networking, remote, security, Ubuntu
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July 23rd, 2010 by Bolster
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July 17th, 2010 by Bolster
Contrary to popular belief, the concept of a ‘hacker‘ (or at least self described ones) has very little to do with coding and networking wizards pounding through systems and stealing valuable information or just destroying everything they touch. In fact, Google (and Princeton University’s) first definition of the word has more to do with Golf than security (try it by googling “define:hacker”).
The so called ‘hacker subculture’ is usually taken as a group of not necessarily like minded, but creative individuals with or without technical or theoretical skill, including artists, musicians, carpenters, machinists, or extreme knitters, and can generally be shortened down to ‘tinker-ers’ or ‘messers’. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Hackerspaces, hacking, social, TheNextHope
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July 8th, 2010 by Bolster
I had an incident recently where the Windows 7 side of my laptop connected easily to an open AP, but the Ubuntu 10.04 (or 9.04, tried both) wouldn’t, with the Intel Iwlagn drivers reporting in syslog a deauth (reason=6), basically the card spoke too soon. I eventually found the solution.
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Tags: compat-wireless, drivers, intel, iwlagn, lenovo, Ubuntu, wifi, Wireless
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June 24th, 2010 by Bolster

TheNextHope
This is it; my first convention! Yes folks, I’m going to be attending (and volunteering) at TheNextHOPE (@thenexthope), 16-18 July.
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Tags: con, convention, hacking, hope, social
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June 23rd, 2010 by Bolster
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June 16th, 2010 by Bolster
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