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Monthly Archives: December 2007
Social network privacy settings
From How to Lose Your Job on Your Own Time: Personal disclosure is the norm on social networking sites. But the Pew study included an unexpected finding: Teenagers have the most sophisticated understanding of privacy controls on these sites, and … Continue reading
Tagged Internet, Privacy, Society
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scponly, rsync and Fedora
A few years ago I wrote about the backup script that I use to do daily and weekly backups of my computers. Since this script must run unattended it makes use of a passphrase-less SSH key. The SSH key in … Continue reading
Downloading source RPMs in Fedora
The main yum executable doesn’t have an option for downloading source RPMs. Fortunately, this task is made easy by yumdownloader which can be found in the yum-utils package. yum install yum-utils yumdownloader –source scponly This will leave a copy of … Continue reading
San Francisco pictures
I didn’t have much time for tourist activities on my recent trip to San Francisco but I did manage a few pictures. These pictures were taken from San Francisco’s famous pier 39. The island is Alcatraz and if you look … Continue reading
A Preview of HTML 5
A Preview of HTML 5 gives a quick overview of some of the new features being worked on as part of HTML5. Especially interesting is the fact that HTML5 is being developed based on the DOM representation not the syntax … Continue reading
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Kennel opening
Good friends of mine, Darryl and Kate, are in the final stages of opening a dog and cat kennel just out side of London, Ontario. Below are a few pictures that I took at the grand opening yesterday. Countryside kennel: … Continue reading
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Things that NAT breaks
Network address translation (NAT) has become so common on the Internet that many people consider it normal for their Internet access to use NAT. It may be common, but it is not how the Internet is supposed to work. A … Continue reading