A friend asked about using Dropbox vs. Carbonite
Today a friend asked me which was a better backup solution Dropbox (http://dropbox.com/ if your going to sign up please use this referral URL http://db.tt/74rAyEsm) or Carbonite (http://carbonite.com)....
View ArticleNatural Order is the future of concurrent processing
David Ungar gave a Talks on Computing Systems (TOCS) at Carnegie Mellon University called "Everything You Know (About Parallel Programming) Is Wrong!: A Wild Screed About the Future."...
View ArticleAll of bash history revisited: load time solved plus directory history
Imagine logging into a box after a nice long three day weekend and asking yourself "self, what was I doing last Thursday?" or "what did I do on this server when I was here nearly a month ago?"What if...
View ArticleReal world damaged caused by a cyber warfare weapon
Cyber warfare HAS cause real world damage on purpose. The Stuxnet computer virus was designed and used to purposefully damage a specific Iranian nuclear facility. It got there by typical computer virus...
View ArticleStorage Technologies Should Usably Persist (for 2400+ years)
It is interesting to consider that the thoughts of one person who lived in a society which seems familiar yet alien 2400 years before I was born are not only still available to be inspected in their...
View ArticleShell Scripts That In-Line Java
Sometimes the simplest things get overlooked. There are many times where I need to do something a little cross system languages. For example dynamically deciding on the right arguments to feed to a...
View ArticleIs position negotiation a dead art in the US
I am curious why companies are no longer negotiating over position details?read more
View ArticleEstimated 500,000 US Computer Still Infected With DNSChanger
I was reading one of my weekly computer news letters and was surprised to learn that over four million computers world wide with roughly 500,000 in the US are still infected with an old DNS hack/virus...
View ArticleThe Little Known Label Option For diff
I love it when I run over a simple solution to what seemed like a difficult (or at least convoluted) problem. Today I needed to generate some patch files to create a Crucible code review PRIOR to...
View Article'man -k' for Powershell
Coming from Unix/Linux programming trying to get stuff done on Windows is sometimes worse than getting teeth pulled. Powershell has definitely improved things, however, Powershell can be a bit obtuse....
View ArticleWhere did Leeland go?
Since 2012 I haven't posted a new entry here. So what happened? Basically I wrote some books, please check them out.read more
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