Software
SSH Notes
July 21, 2023
Brief notes about SSH
Scrivener Smart Finder on Mac
July 13, 2023
Shortcuts in Mac’s Finder can avoid time-consuming searches
Computers Lie and Cheat
November 14, 2022
WarGames In the movie WarGames, the programmer of the WOPR computer left a backdoor login.
Cooking Up Plutonium-238
September 5, 2022
September 5, 2022
pSOS+ at Westinghouse Somewhere between 1995 and 2000, I was sent to teach a pSOS+ class to Westinghouse engineers in Savannah, Georgia.
Things That Go Bump in the Night
March 10, 2022
March 10, 2022
Two Versions, Same Content There are two versions of this document.
What’s a DNS, and Who Cares?
December 8, 2021
December 8, 2021
What’s in a Name? On the web, we use the names of computers or providers such as Facebook, Twitter, and Google.
Houston, We Have A Problem
November 20, 2016
November 20, 2016
It’s called a “Denial of Service” attack and it comes from a virus, affectionately named as you can see in the snippet above, “Smurf”.
It’s 1984 Again
September 25, 2016
September 25, 2016
Specifically, if you have an Android cell phone and have shopped for any new app, then you’ll have a Google account.