tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60906267403393566322012-01-28T13:38:48.517-07:00Activities, Tips, Guides, Reviews, News, and Opinions: Therapy for the High-Tech SectorBakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07693198698218954034noreply@blogger.comBlogger71100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6090626740339356632.post-7005660099738933972011-08-14T22:24:00.005-06:002011-08-14T23:18:44.290-06:00

Paul Sparrows has posted a summary of Viruses and Trojans to hit Android this year. The Linux security model (SELinux excluded) leaves much to be desired and while Android takes a step in the right direction by having Apple-like granular permissions, I believe it falls down huge by failing to empower users. Android security would be much better served to select and enforce which permissions

Bakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07693198698218954034noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6090626740339356632.post-786535379490584802011-01-05T00:37:00.009-07:002011-06-23T18:21:03.634-06:00

So I fired up my semi-retired Gentoo box as I do from time-to-time to see how I had cleverly set up some piece of automata. In this case I wanted to remember how I made it so removable disks could be partitioned or formatted by a non-root user. It turns out I took this to the next level with a lot of fancy udev rules and the pam_group module which also made it difficult to access the soundcard,

Bakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07693198698218954034noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6090626740339356632.post-88039722995545386862010-09-23T21:41:00.013-06:002011-06-23T18:09:46.124-06:00

It hit medium-sized data centres approximately 4 years ago and now it's barreling down on home PCs with the force of a locomotive. Another virus? Worm? Trojan? Not at all - I'm talking about the 2TB partition size limitation for MS-DOS MBR-style partitions! Not too many have been affected but Linux users purchasing high-end machines are starting to hear the rumblings as their favorite

Bakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07693198698218954034noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6090626740339356632.post-44126627260925708662010-01-23T23:40:00.010-07:002011-06-23T18:10:19.749-06:00

This week I've been reading about the new Misa Digital Guitar. Apparently the only thing it has in common with traditional guitars is it's shape, as it has more in common with Monome when it comes to functionality. This instrument is designed to allow you to control electronic music as you play it, and to this end they've replaced the traditional strings where you would normally pluck the

Bakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07693198698218954034noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6090626740339356632.post-66849701578653175142009-12-29T20:30:00.031-07:002011-06-23T18:22:02.993-06:00

Dear Gentoo,We've been together for 10 years now and there's a couple of things I've really been meaning to say. When I first fell for you I was enticed by how you were so fast and lean and full of charm (you also had a bigger set of packages than any other distro out there). It wasn't all looks either, you had a willingness to try anything and, unlike LFS whom I had just dumped for being a

Bakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07693198698218954034noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6090626740339356632.post-75215098551338924542008-01-27T17:20:00.002-07:002011-06-23T18:23:09.114-06:00

In my last post I had angered a Mac user when I claimed that Microsoft owned Apple and therefore disqualified them as a competitor. Admittedly this was my expression of a common misconception and was quite ignorant as I hadn't done any recent research on the topic. Being that I don't want TII to be about expressing ignorance and/or bias masquerading as "News Stories" just to attract misguided

Bakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07693198698218954034noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6090626740339356632.post-40958168864719169312008-01-26T11:52:00.001-07:002011-06-23T18:23:28.837-06:00

Bill Gates recently gave a speech (here is the video) for a kinder, gentler, more merciful form of Capitalism. One which would benefit the poorest two-thirds of our fellow man while still being profitable to businesses. There have been arguments for both Gates being right and Gates being wrong and even the skeptic that I am cannot help but agree that we need to do something about this horrible

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