As part of the transition from a contractor to a full-time employee of Cox Media Group Digital & Strategy (check out our github), I’ve been issued a Mid-2010 (6,2) 15” MacBook Pro laptop, to replace my current Early-2008 (3,1) MacPro desktop. The desktop is currently running Fedora 17 …

I have a small web-based tool for allowing members of an organization to register their wireless MAC addresses, and then automatically adding them to the MAC ACL on Ubiquiti AirOSv2 APs. It’s a pretty quick hack, along with a simple and ugly web-based tool, but it gets the job …

We were seeing some strange behavior with Mac client machines on the network lately, specifically with DNS queries (I’d guess that a lot of it has to do with Bonjour), but the discussion touched on the DNS Changer trojan for Mac. I’d really never heard about it before …

Begin shameless rant…

When I read the “system requirements” for hardware these days, and see “PC or Mac”, I cringe. Surely someone who’s developing the hardware should understand the horrible inaccuracy of this.

The term “PC”, or Personal Computer, is used to refer to any hardware that is (at …

So in the first bit of good news lately, after four years as a part-timer, this Monday I start my full-time position at Rutgers as a Linux SysAdmin. Not really anything different - same office, same work, just another day a week and a pay bump (plus benefits and all that …

I know i haven’t posted in a while.

I’m working on a friend’s web site, and needed a specific font for the title graphic. I couldn’t find it anywhere as a free TTF download for my Linux machine. However, after asking a friend who’s a …