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Jeff Stevenson’s Technology Blog: Hitler and the CNC Guys. If you have any knowledge of JDE and Oracle, this is hilarious!

Well, today is the first day it has gotten above zero (although not by more than a degree or two) since Saturday. I don’t care. I’ll take it! Hopefully we will see twenties or even thirties yet this month!

San Diego, CA, October 30, 2008–UC San Diego computer scientists have built a software program that can perform key duplication without having the key. Instead, the computer scientists only need a photograph of the key. “We built our key duplication software system to show people that their keys are not inherently secret,” said Stefan Savage, […]

Got tired of the long dropbox url for your public files? It is difficult to remember when you are on IRC and you don’t want to open nautilus and search for that file? Do this with a htaccess You just need to follow these two easy steps: 1. Create a new folder on your web […]

A Hazen boy was cited for being a minor in consumption and curfew violation after reporting he was attacked in south Bismarck. The boy said he was attacked outside a southwest Bismarck apartment after attending a party there, Lt. Randy Ziegler said. He said the boy was treated and released at a Bismarck hospital for […]

Encryption New to Ubuntu 8.10 is a nifty seamless encryption feature. It’s always been possible to encrypt individual files/folders in Ubuntu but it involved creating a key pair and then individually encrypting files. To view or edit the file, it was necessary to decrypt it and then re-encrypt it again if changes were made. Messy. […]

We all know that spiraling gas prices throughout the world has put a strain on the economy. But instead of becoming melancholic about the whole situation, we should look at the brighter side of things. After all some good samaritan out there would do something to bring some cheer into our lives. Take for instance […]

I will no longer manage money for other people or institutions. I have enough of my own wealth to manage. Some people, who think they have arrived at a reasonable estimate of my net worth, might be surprised that I would call it quits with such a small war chest. That is fine; I am […]