Carpe Decorum

One-liners

Tue, 24 Mar 2009 14:36:22 -0400

One-liners: Command-line stalwarts by popular vote. H/T kottke.org

Minimal Effort Not Made

Tue, 24 Mar 2009 14:36:21 -0400

Minimal Effort Not Made: Somebody does not seem to understand, or want to understand, why computer activity gets logged. Computers used in California elections did not log deletions, operator changes, or have correct…

International LXX Day

Sun, 08 Feb 2009 21:55:23 -0500

International LXX Day: February 8 is International Septuagint Day for those in the know. And now the rest of us.

Ishkabibble

Fri, 06 Feb 2009 07:43:34 -0500

Ishkabibble: Ish, an excellent mouser, reigned supreme in the art of comfort, be it napping, eating (his or the dog’s food), or being petted. He was a hefty brown tabby when I met him at an adoption fair (Four…

Link

Fri, 02 Jan 2009 13:31:01 -0500

Link: Multilingualism is coming to the web in many ways, reflecting its users:
Asia already has twice as many Internet users as North America, and by 2012 it will have three times as many. Already, more…

creative funding

Wed, 31 Dec 2008 15:18:01 -0500

creative funding: Creative Commons is flourishing.

Link

Wed, 31 Dec 2008 12:17:17 -0500

Link: Via kottke.org, a reprise of Consider the Lobster. If history and taste had gone a bit differently, we all could be thankful for lobster, instead of turkey on Thanksgiving. Some of us would be more…

Tsk, tsk

Mon, 29 Dec 2008 15:22:56 -0500

Tsk, tsk: Facebook ignored a nasty security hole for four-months, one of those that permits code-injection.

Whoops

Mon, 29 Dec 2008 15:22:56 -0500

Whoops: Another day, another data breach: RBS WorldPay systems reporting a hack into its systems November 10 exposing a million and a half social security records and a million or so pre-pay payroll and gift…

No questions asked

Mon, 29 Dec 2008 11:17:42 -0500

No questions asked: It looks like another oops in the internets: low-assurance certificates for one domain can be easily snagged by another to, for instance, use in a man-in-the-middle attack.

“If you don’t play nicely with me, I’m taking my bone and leaving”

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 14:28:43 -0500

“If you don’t play nicely with me, I’m taking my bone and leaving”: Dogs demand fair play: dogs in the test refused to play if they received less valuable treats (or none) than other dogs. Theorizing, some scientists think fair play or social justice may underpin the…

Vista woes

Thu, 04 Dec 2008 14:12:04 -0500

Vista woes: Ridding Vista of wireless connectivity, a sysadmin’s saga. Of course, running as a limited user is much simpler under Vista. The digital tv access is pretty sweet too. But as for the rest? Bah.

Judging covers

Thu, 04 Dec 2008 14:12:04 -0500

Judging covers: Via kottke, best 2008 book cover designs.

Java Joe

Thu, 04 Dec 2008 14:12:04 -0500

Java Joe: Coffee musings

Good News

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 21:56:06 -0400

Good News: The Codex Sinaiticus is digitized. (The less said about the BBC announcement the better.) It is believed argued to be the oldest extant version of the BIble, dating from about the 4th century.
See…

1542

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 15:26:22 -0400

1542: No, not the year, but the number of over votes (a vote for more than one candidate in a given race) that appeared in the tallies for 13 separate District of Columbia primary races. Per the…

More on DC Voting

Thu, 18 Sep 2008 15:11:31 -0400

More on DC Voting: The DC Board of Elections and Ethics blamed the overcounting of write-ins on a defective cartridge, while the manufacturer, Sequoia, said its equipment was not responsible to the Washington Post. The…

DC Voting Snafu

Thu, 18 Sep 2008 14:11:26 -0400

DC Voting Snafu: The problem: a “bad memory cartridge” which counted a surprising number of write-ins In one precinct. At least it doesn’t appear to have affected the outcome.

Hairpulling IT Moments

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 16:06:05 -0400

Hairpulling IT Moments: So an installation of OpenLDAP depends on Cyrus-SASL already being installed. So far so good. But Cyrus-SASL is looking to have an LDAP feature installed so it will work. What the ???
Seems like the…

Reducing PC Power Usage Doable, Not Simple

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 09:04:47 -0400

Reducing PC Power Usage Doable, Not Simple: Corporate PC Power Consumption Difficult to Reduce from Ars Technica.
The problem is enabling power-saving features at the hardware level, having the right drivers and settings at the software level,…