EEE PC Redux
My EEE PC 901 was great. The only problem was that I couldn’t stand the keyboard and so our romance ended abruptly. This made me sad, so it was banished […]
Swamp Computing
Tired of reading yet another cloud security article? This is really the only one you need to read. If you don’t have the attention span to read it all, read […]
Federal Data Breach Bill (H.R. 2221) Passes House
H.R. 2221 defines personal information as, “an individual’s first name or initial and last name, or address, or phone number, in combination with any 1 or more of the following […]
Motorcycles
I haven’t publicly or completely told the story of my particular flavor of urban nomadism (the first definition). I’ll get around to it eventually, but motorcycles are a decent run-up […]
Comcast Wimax
via clear.com Thinking about getting the new Comcast Highspeed2Go Wimax offering? I was as well since when bundled with home internet service, it’s pretty cheap. Comcast is rebranding and reselling […]
Militants Can Snoop on Most U.S. Warplanes, Drones
Tapping into drones’ video feeds was just the start. The U.S. military’s primary system for bringing overhead surveillance down to soldiers and Marines on the ground is also vulnerable to […]
Amazon EC2 cloud service hit by botnet, outage
The folks who run Amazon’s EC2 cloud service must be happy the week is nearly over. The cloud-based EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) was kept jumping this past week by two […]
Contracting and Consulting
So you want to be a consultant or a contractor? When I have told tales of some of the contracts and consultancy gigs I have worked, people think it sounds […]
Local Game Shops
High quality local geek shops are hard to find in Seattle. I have been accustomed in the past to running out to the local hardcore lair to pick up some […]
Ian Gorrie Social Engineering HOWTO
Here are things I like. If you talk to me about these things, I’ll likely think you’re cool. People I like or have liked: Joe Rogan Chris Rock Patton Oswalt […]
