So, I have been pretty sure for a while that the main Hard Drive in my desktop was going out. It’s probably the oldest drive I own and occasionally it got feisty during reboots. For a variety of reasons, I kept putting off replacing it. … and putting it off…. and putting it off… Then … [Read more…]
It seems like there is an increasing amount of hacks and leaks lately. These also seem to be larger and higher profile targets more and more. Recently I’ve been seeing stories about Last.fm and Dropbox accounts apparently being compromised as well as a vulnerability in vBulleten, a popular Message Board hosting tool. For the most … [Read more…]
Every so often, I’ve seen the “ethical dilemma” of Self Driving cars come up for debate. Specifically, the scenario goes something like this: A self driving car is approaching a crowd of children, it can veer off a cliff and kill the occupants, saving the children, what choice does it make? Who is responsible for … [Read more…]
A while back I set up a Digital Ocean VPS running OpenSIM. I then promptly forgot about Digital Ocean. Part of the problem was I forgot my password and form some lame reason the email didn’t show up when I searched my emails for “Digital Ocean”. It was also more of a fun side project … [Read more…]
There are 5 people in my household. At this point, each of these people has at least a laptop and a tablet and the majority of them have a handheld smartphone style device (only one is actually a phone with data). There are several game consoles and media devices, a couple of additional desktops, some … [Read more…]
Binary numbers are extremely important to computers and technology. You see, a computer only understands electrical impulses. There either is a charge, or there isn’t. It’s either “on” or “off”, 1 or 0 in mathematical terms. This is called “Binary”. Here’s a short video on Binary. He does a good job of explaining this. The … [Read more…]