MikeM - Current Events


Tuesday, March 09, 2010
 
Synergy+ shares one mouse and keyboard between multiple computers - looks like something I'm going to have to investigate!


 
1024-bit RSA encryption cracked by carefully starving CPU of electricity Wow. This one is going to have some repercussions.

"By fluctuating the voltage to the CPU such that it generated a single hardware error per clock cycle, they found that they could cause the server to flip single bits of the private key at a time, allowing them to slowly piece together the password. "


Saturday, March 06, 2010
 
Blogger FTP Info: Deprecating FTP

Ouch. Blogger is going to stop supporting FTP publishing to off-blogger sites. They claim it's because FTP is so difficult to support, but I believe it's just a thinly-veiled way to force people to move their content to blogger's servers.

This apparently started back in Jan, and I had not heard anything about it, even though they said they alerted everyone via email - I never got it.

So now I need to find another way to make posts to my blog. I don't want to move it - most of it is hosted privately, but it appears that the pictures I published thru blogger are hosted on blogger, where the ones I sent to the main site and linked to manually are on the main site. So my blog is distributed across both sites. Lovely.

Looks like I get to do a major consolidation one way or the other.

The google tools are easier to use than the manual publish method, so I may end up moving my content to the blogger servers. I just hope that they don't screw me in the future.


Thursday, March 04, 2010
 
Anthony Weiner Destroys FOX & Friends "Liar Brigade" in a 3-vs-1 debate on Health Care. Anyone clinging to the republican stand needs to see this and have their eyes opened.




 
Understanding the Windows Pagefile and Why You Shouldn't Disable It Especially in Vista and WIndows 7, it appears.


Wednesday, March 03, 2010
 
An Eyewitness News investigation talks to a police officer who reveals the pressure they are under to make quotas - regardless of guilt - they are required to search, arrest, and write summonses to people that have done no wrong, trumping up charges and then dropping them once the numbers have been counted.

Police state.


Tuesday, March 02, 2010

Monday, March 01, 2010

Saturday, February 27, 2010

Friday, February 26, 2010
 
Science Fiction/Fantasy/Etc. TV Shows Upcoming Episodes

This is a constantly updated list I use to track some of the shows I like.


Thursday, February 25, 2010
 
Cruciatus Curse

1/2 oz Aftershock® Hot & Cool cinnamon schnapps
1/2 oz Jagermeister® herbal liqueur
1/2 oz dark rum
1/2 oz Rumple Minze® peppermint liqueur

I understand why it's named after an evil spell in Harry Potter...


Wednesday, February 24, 2010