Airline Security a Waste Of Cash
That’s the title of a Bruce Schneier column in Wired. Since 9/11, our nation has been obsessed with air-travel security. Terrorist attacks from the air ha...
Author: Timothy Foreman
Be Careful When You Buy Online
Here is the story of a guy who tried to buy a $3000 digital camera on the internet from a store in NY. What he got was a lot of abuse, a big hassle, and no came...
An interview with Terry Pratchett
SciFi.com has an interview with Terry Pratchett – the writer of the Disc World books. Link
Movie Plot Threats
One of the security issues that Bruce Schneier talks about on his blog is movie plot threats. These are security threats that are so over the top that they coul...
Geeky, but cool
Now this is very cool. I may have to see if I have enough Legos to try this. This guy makes his D&D Dungeons out of Legos and has the characters walk aroun...
Soooo true
Dilbert was pretty good on Sunday.
A Whole Hornets Nest of Crap
or Tim Learns Four Lessons Holy crap was THAT a huge pain in the ass. I had a couple of hours this morning, so I thought I’d do some preliminary testing b...
RAID Harddrive Test Results
Well, I have tested all six Western Digital WD800 drives using the WD DLGDiags tool and the one Samsung SP8004H drive with the Samsung HUTIL tool. Of the six WD...
MegaRAID Update
So, just because I didn’t have anything else to do this morning I did the following to my Openfiler box: Replaced the power supply (an old ‘Sparkle&...
MegaRAID i4 Makes Me Stabby
It’s official. The MegaRAID i4 is a true Pain In The Ass. Last night I upgraded the firmware in the hope that it would solve my drive rebuilding issues. N...