Here’s a really nice quick and dirty introduction to Unix. Well worth your time, if you’re unfamiliar with it.
04 February 2018: updated text
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You may have heard of case-modding, in which folks create cool cases for their computers. Well, a fellow has installed a computer in a whisky bottle. Way, way, way too cool.
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You may have heard of case-modding, in which folks create cool cases for their computers. Well, a fellow has installed a computer in a whisky bottle. Way, way, way too cool.
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Here’s a list of 25 reasons to convert to Linux. Of course I’ve been using Linux exclusively since ’99 — do I get a prize of some sort?
06 February 2018: update URL
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Here’s a list of 25 reasons to convert to Linux. Of course I’ve been using Linux exclusively since ’99 — do I get a prize of some sort?
06 February 2018: update URL
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For years now I’ve known that I need backups; I’ve worried that sooner or later the hour would come when they would be necessary. I RAID my drives, but that just provides redundancy and protects against disk failure; it does nothing to protect against human or software error. At one point I even bought a SCSI tape drive off of eBay, but it never quite worked properly.
Well, last night disaster struck.
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For years now I’ve known that I need backups; I’ve worried that sooner or later the hour would come when they would be necessary. I RAID my drives, but that just provides redundancy and protects against disk failure; it does nothing to protect against human or software error. At one point I even bought a SCSI tape drive off of eBay, but it never quite worked properly.
Well, last night disaster struck.
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Google Talk now supports federation; that is, rather than only being able to talk to other gmail.com users, you’re now able to talk to any XMPP (Jabber protocol) users out there. At last instant messaging is starting to grow up — in time there will be no more AIM, MSN Messenger and instead a single common protocol open to all, just like email.
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Google Talk now supports federation; that is, rather than only being able to talk to other gmail.com users, you’re now able to talk to any XMPP (Jabber protocol) users out there. At last instant messaging is starting to grow up — in time there will be no more AIM, MSN Messenger and instead a single common protocol open to all, just like email.
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ZDNet have an excellent article taking CERT to task for misrepresenting the number of Unix & Windows vulnerabilities for the past year. It makes some very cogent points, and should be read.
31 January 2018: updated URL
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ZDNet have an excellent article taking CERT to task for misrepresenting the number of Unix & Windows vulnerabilities for the past year. It makes some very cogent points, and should be read.
31 January 2018: updated URL
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One of the techniques used in some sub-fields of Artificial Intelligence is training: one feeds one’s apparatus a set of known good associations (e.g. this word sounds like this and that like that, or this is the number 3 in forty different styles of handwriting), and for each sees what answer it returns, then correct it based on its answer. This obviously requires a large corpus, and building such a corpus is time-consuming and error-prone.
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