When browsing through Digg this morning, I came by a story at PCpro UK entitled “Boycott ad-blocking Firefox, urges furious web designer“. This gentleman stated that, “Software that blocks all advertisement is an infringement of the rights of website owners and developers.”

While I don’t like giving press to …

I haven’t been too active on here lately, mainly due to spending my summer as a paid transport EMT, working 50 hours a week or so, and still trying to keep up on “life”.

I have a few things planned for the next month or so of summer, so …

Well, as mentioned below, today I was doing a little research. On the futility of a Computer Science major. Specifically, on the fact that the overwhelming odds are that in a career in IT, system administration, or even web programming, I’ll probably never apply 90% of what I learn …

So, I’m a computer science major at Rutgers. What is computer science? And WHY is it my major?

I was recently reading an excellent article online, by Neil McBride, a principal lecturer in the School of Computing, De Montfort University, UK. The Death of Computing essentially speaks to the …

I just purchased four new servers, and set out to find some good asset management software. Specifically, I’m looking for a PHP package that allows me to track the details of all of my hardware. While software and configuration tracking would surely be good for some applications, I already …

Those of us who are involved in the Linux community are often frustrated by the lack of widespread acceptance of Linux. Granted, I haven’t used all of the newest “desktop” distributions (‘distros’), but I know that my choice - openSuSE - is far from being ready to compete with Windows for …

I get paid tomorrow, and it’s time to spend some money. Sure, there are some great toys out there. The stuff from ThinkGeek is always great. What about that monitoring server I want? Or upgrading my LAN to gigabit copper?

Of course, there are also many charitable causes. The …

So I decided to setup SSL on my Apache server. After looking around for ages, it seems that the answer to SSL Certs is that I need to buy one. There doesn’t seem to be any CA out there who will provide free certs that are accepted by most …

So, here’s an idea that I’ve been toying around with for a while.

I’ve been dong some development on a pair of Soekris embedded Linix boards I bought to use as a firewall/router and WAP. So, naturally, my interest in embedded systems is piqued. I know …

I’ve been resisting it for quite a while, but in an effort to cut down on extraneous content on my web sites (JasonAntman.com, php-ems-tools.com, and KC2OZU.com) I decided to give in and setup a blog.

The content will probably be a smattering of IT, Linux, GNU …