E D Skinner

Fiction, facts, and philosophy

Linux

SSH Notes
Posts
7/21/23
Brief notes about SSH
Year Nine
Posts
1/1/23
Things I’ve always wanted to do, but …
Computers Lie and Cheat
Posts
11/14/22

In the movie WarGames, the programmer of the WOPR computer left a backdoor login. When the main character guesses it, all Hell breaks loose.

Cooking Up Plutonium-238
Posts
9/5/22

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
Posts
3/10/22

There are two versions of this document. Both contain the same technical descriptions.

What’s a DNS, and Who Cares?
Posts
12/8/21

On the web, we use the names of computers or providers such as Facebook, Twitter, and Google. Even when you’re using Facebook’s app, it is also using a computer’s name. This is because we remember names much better than numbers.

Something Broke
Posts
4/28/21

A week of intermittent attempts at JT-8 on my ham radio failed to make any contacts. Not a single one.

Houston, We Have A Problem
Posts
11/20/16

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”.

Why Mac?
Posts
10/26/15

For one thing, if you do many different things throughout the day, it’s extremely easy to switch focus because the Mac can have all things going at once.

clintonemail.com Scheming
Posts
3/4/15

Hillary’s private email system is not subject to the FOIA (Freedom Of Information Act).