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Why do they not open source the entire package? I have to think that AOL has clean intellectual property ownership on the code base. It would be better than letting this important historical codebase …

I never saw this before. I used to like walking past the old data center in the Rich Building at Georgia Tech. It was hard to imagine what it was like in its hay day with punch cards and all.

I would change hosting providers.

I have not measured it in a long time, but the effect of blocking port 22 and leaving open a non-standard SSH port is dramatic ! As in noticeable decrease in load average on the server.

I like to run hardened SSH servers - key only authentication and specific lists of permitted users. From a security point of view this works on the default port or an alternate port. Root is blocked…

Thank you. I am filling out the report there now.

Copying that file to an external and burning a DL DVD backup of that image were the first steps that I took after finishing the download.

Does anyone know if Apple has a general bug report mechanism for the public? The Mavericks installer was not accepting the password to unlock FileVault in the installer itself after reboot. It turns o…

I never played with CB other than low power walkie talkies from radio shack. I did get into amateur radio in 2003 and do have a radio that can be mounted in the car. There seems to be quite a lot of…

Neat. Flux has been one of my favorite tools for years. There have been times that I have had to use its "disable for an hour" function late at night and the sudden brightness change is act…

This has got to be an FBI orchestrated trap!

I actually researched this long ago - 2004 - when I was a student at Tech and gave a presentation to the Atlanta Radio Club about cryptographically secure authentication that would be Part 97 friendly…

I saw that on QRZ. The radio spectrum still works fine while the FCC is on break though. I am not too worried about it.

That is an idea! It would be fun to run SSH over packet radio while no one is around to enforce Part 97!

It sometimes feels a bit like a exploring a cave with a small flashlight. It's also fun when you start referring to the codebase as a patient. "Well, we can try this approach and see how sh…

Now that I am back at my computer (I posted the parent from my phone), let me add a bit about my personal experience being homeschooled. For me personally, being homeschooled was excellent and I am th…

Interesting statistics! I was homeschooled by my mother and feel that it was instrumental in shaping my path into both computing and entrepreneurship.

I had read that Tim Cook is an early riser, but didn't know about being up that late regularly. I think the super early riser is a cultural in south Alabama. My mother's parents grew up wi…

The revelations about abusive, prima facie unconstitutional behavior by the United States government is massively important. The more information that the we as the public have on the irreparable harm…

I am playing with Octopress (which uses Jekyll) tonight and it looks amazing.

I like CoffeeScript a lot actually. It seems to me that in some circumstances JavaScript is a new assembly language. Just because it is the native language of the runtime environment doesn't me…

I came across this while looking into options to convert my Blogger blog to.

Yes, it's called an Impeachment. According to the Constitution it can only be for an high crimes and misdemeanors. The Congress then holds a trial and if convicted the President is removed from…

I am really rather certain there are members of Congress, perhaps members of the Intelligence Oversight Committee even, that can get at anything they want . Sadly, that they are not pushing harder t…

An excellent article! This is a process that I've been thinking through increasingly after having evaluated years of custom development work, the last two in custom Ruby on Rails development work…

A few years ago, I had a SaaS startup in the ATDC but at just about every meeting I was one of the few people in the group capable of coding. One thing lead to another and I ended up bowing out of the…

Flashpoint is pretty great! I am going based upon what I have heard in various startup circle discussions. I am usually the "hacker" in the group of others. I have myself stayed as far awa…

The Atlanta startup culture is a bit different from the Bay Area. Less consumer internet, more B2B. The investors tend to come from a real-estate, or similar background, and do not always understand…

Georgia Tech was a mixed bag during that period if I remember correctly. I fought to keep the ACM chapter relevant to encourage entrepreneurship from 2002 to 2004, but it didn't quite stick way …