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It’s nice that geeks are cool now. Now there are a lot of people who say they’re hardcore. Here’s some of them: These stereotypes are not who I’m going to be talking about, though I do have some guilty pleasures of a few of those portrayed above. I’m going to talk about me and my kind. The [...] Toorcamp was many things this year. It was fun. It was uncomfortable. Dustdevils ate things occasionally. It was turbulent due to the trouble with Levitate to get hackers to help promote their event for free or they wouldn’t fulfill their agreement to let us use the missile facility for talks and workshops. There was some excellent music. There were fine people in attendance as it took some dedication and preparation to get out there and stay there. Enough said about that. I was expecting more problems. More can be found at the Toorcamp wiki. My presentation at this Toorcon Seattle area hacker retreat was concerned itself with three main points.
I entitled my talk Hacking HR in the traditional usage of the word hack. I’ve seen a lot of usage that uses “hack” as a synonym for small tips on how to accomplish obvious tasks. This isn’t how I use the word. Anyway, let’s get started. So that covers how I have made my contacts sane and available. What about calendars? I have a bit of a complicated life, so I have a few different types of calendars: Home, social, and personal stuff The best way to get things all extra organized and available so that you can [...] There was recent news about how Amazon was down for two hours. Speculation runs rampant on cnet about the cause: “It doesn’t seem to be the result of a network-initiated attack, at least from my preliminary analysis from our probes,” Ranjan said. Human error may not sound as gripping a tale as [...] I have no sympathy for the consumers of Solid Oak as discussed, if that is the right word, in the well circulated Chloe Albanesius article dramatically entitled “Update: Symantec Screwup Is ‘Worse Than Any Virus.‘” Yes. Let’s be as sensational as possible far beyond the point of legitimacy. Good plan, Chloe. I’m sure your frothing editors at [...] |
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