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My job gave me a Dell Mini.  It has a built in broadband card, and overall I have some good things to day about it.  The Gents I work with all put Mac OS X on theirs, but I slapped Umbutu Linux on mine.  I figured it would be easier to update the latest software, […]

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An article in Popular Science discusses the Chinese Hacker Problem. I still think US hackers need to be a little more agressive twards the Chinese. A quote from the article says: Chinese attacks were poorly coordinated, and it’s tempting to dismiss them as harmless online vandalism. But subsequent attacks have become more serious. In the […]

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Since many of my readers are technology nerds, I couldn’t resist linking to this post: Gone but not forgotten: 10 operating systems the world left behind AmigaOS, CP/M, OS/2, DOS — which OS do you miss the most? By Matt Lake It’s a great article. I used to love DOS before I decovered UNIX, I […]

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Its Square Root Day The next square root day is in 2016 Regards Biff

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My friend Hyena, sent me a screen shot. I made one too (running FVWM but with the Gnome tool bar). UNIX geeks love screenshots because the graphical application is not part of the kernel like it is in windows. This means that you can run any number of windows managers, and most of these are […]

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This link showed up on digg.com today: click here its an IBM tutorial on KSH Scripting

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Most Linux desktop users are using the Gnome Windows Manager these days. It’s ok, but I’ve decided to make the switch back to the fvwm windows manager. fvwm is the more configurable (although its quite a bit harder to set up). One of the things I missed about the Gnome desktop however was its main […]

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Huge news this week .. Google has announced Real Time Market Data Feeds. Prior to this, stock feeds to the regular Joe were delayed by five minutes, giving Institutional Investors a distinct advantage over everyone else. Now, home investors will be able to create investment strategies based on speed and do algorithmic trading based a […]

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Ok, I’ve never seen the value in owning a blackberry before. I have a Verizon Voyager, that does a ton of stuff .. Text Messaging, Email, Camera, Phone, etc. What else could I want? Well, “The Firm” has issued me a Blackberry Curve 8310 Smart Phone. I have to say, it blows everything else away. […]

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So, I’ve had a project or two at The Firm that has required a little C programming. Being on the systems side of the company these days, you sometimes have to open up OpenSource code and make some alterations or add features. Most system code is written in C or C++. Anywho, With my C […]