First, the article. Check it out before you continue. — To begin, it’s worth nothing that it was a government-run healthcare program that accomplished this. It was smart people looking out for the greater-good of the people, which is what government is supposed to be. I am not a healthcare expert, but I’d say the reason this is…
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Change Blindness
How to Manage a Cisco Device via Console Using a USB Port in OS X
Problem: you need to manage a Cisco device via console, but the only box you have available is your non-macpro-mac, i.e. you don’t have a console port available. Solution: manage it via USB. Step 1: Procure a USB to Console Cable It should look something like this. You can get them most anywhere. Step 2: Download and Install…
My Only Shot at Immortality
Like my religious friends, I too would like to live forever. The thought of there being an end to my learning–a point at which my lifelong tool sharpening goes to waste–is not a happy one. Here’s the only way I can see it happening (and I don’t think it’s too farfetched, either). We simply have to make it…
Fusion Tables: An Extraordinary Data Sharing and Visualization Tool
This is the type of project you expect to see from Google.
A Few Apache Hardening Basics
Here are a few things you should consider doing immediately after installing and configuring Apache. Not to be confused with an Apache hardening guide, this is just a list of three (3) minimums. Permissions Here’s a script you can run to harden the permissions on your web root. It will make sure ownership is correct (change as needed),…
Installing Apache Modules in Ubuntu
These are the ones I often seem to need. a2enmod headers a2enmod expires a2enmod rewrite Then bounce the service: /etc/init.d/apach2 restart [ If it seems like this post is a note to myself, that’s because it is. 🙂 That’s how the entire site got started, actually. ]
Happiness: Creation vs. Collection
I have an observation that I’ve been mulling for the last few days: unhealthy people collect things. Healthy people create things. Naturally, statements like these always pivot on definitions, so when I say “healthy” here, I mean people who generally like themselves and feel happy about where they are in life. This isn’t to say that all people…
Disk Performance: Slicehost vs. Linode
One of the major performance metrics I looked at when evaluating Linode vs. Slicehost was disk performance. Here are the stats for my two servers as of a few moments ago: [ Performance taken with htparm -tT on both systems at the same time. ] Slicehost Cached Reads: 413.15 MB/sec Buffered Reads: 7.27 MB/sec Linode Cached Reads: 5576.59…
Social Media is Nothing But a Global Interface to You as a Person
The problem newcomers often make when thinking about social media (Facebook, Twitter, etc.) is thinking about it as some sort of additional thing–as if there’s a separation between you, and it. There isn’t. Social media is nothing disparate or foreign. It’s an arbitrary name we’ve assigned to “using technology to provide an interface to ourselves”. Your blog, or…
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