Mike finally agreed to try Linux. That’s how this whole thing began. I gave him a couple of options for some user-friendly distros and he settled on Ubuntu. Downloaded the ISO, burned, began the process. I had one partition I left OSX on, and I installed Ubuntu in the spare partition. /dev/sda2 is the OSX [...]
Posted under Free software, Misc Tech by chad 21.02.2009
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I was reading the news late last night, and I came across a new study put out by the NSA, Homeland Security, Microsoft and Symantec. The BBC article was entitled “Dangerous Coding Errors Revealed.” I found it interesting though, that the top four problems listed are all directly related to web applications–although the principles can [...]
Posted under Mediawiki Development, Misc Tech, Wikis by chad 14.01.2009
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I mentioned a few posts back about the impending arrival of my new T-Mobile G1. I put off reviewing it because I wanted to take pictures. But then I couldn’t find my camera’s USB cord. This was compounded by the fact that I took about two pictures when I opened the box and got so [...]
Posted under Free software, Misc Tech by chad 21.11.2008
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