For quite a while, I’ve been planning on centralizing a lot of my personal storage (documents, miscellaneous stuff) on one machine at home. The biggest problem that I have is that, while a VPN would be a good solution for my apartment (if I could get IPcopto do …

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 …

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Well, I’m shopping for a new switch. But first, a small aside:

I drive a Ford F-250. It’s a pretty big truck. And every once in a while, someone cuts me off in something like a Honda Fit. It really makes me stop and wonder - how stupid are …

Well, that’s it. Not only did Verizon and AT&T come out on top in the 700MHz spectrum auction - promising an end to hopes of Google’s utopian ideals of a truly open network - but I just heard that “Office Open XML” was approved as an ISO standard.

I …

At the Midland Park Ambulance Corps, where I’ve been volunteering my time as an EMT and all-around tech guru for three years, we have an IEI HubMax2 access control system. Maybe overkill for us (only 78 users in it, including old codes), it’s pretty simple - a box with …