I recently sent an email of protest concerning the Internet privacy Bill C-30 via OpenMedia.ca. Interestingly, I got a automated reply back from the Honourable Vic Toews addressing the issues in the email. Unfortunately, the email raises a lot more questions than it answers, for me. Here is my response, with the text of the [...]
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Review: Samsung Sidekick 4G From T-Mobile
I was in the market for a new mobile phone last year, after having more or less worn out my OG Droid. Seeing I use my phone a lot for mobile IT work, so a good dedicated keyboard was hugely important for me. After some research, Samsung’s Sidekick 4G (model SGH-T839) stood out head and shoulders [...]
Read the rest of this entry »GoDaddy’s Stance On SOPA Shows Off Their Ignorance In More Ways Than One!
Normally I am not a grammar nazi or troll, but given GoDaddy’s recent blog post supporting SOPA I felt that a judicious poke at their obvious ignorance was well justified. Check this out!
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Today I’m seeing a huge number of articles screaming “Android Malware Surges Nearly Five-Fold Since July” (PC Magazine) and “Android malware has jumped up 472%” (Apple Insider). Well, percentages and other stats are very nice, but it’s easy to manipulate numbers like that to get scary looking figures. Always look at the hard data backing [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Fix VSFTPD Slow Directory Listings & Timeouts
I’ve always had trouble with vsftpd and slow directory listings or timeouts, so I’ve generally avoided it. With a little dedicated digging I finally managed to unearth how to get this working properly on a CentOS box.
Read the rest of this entry »Tablet Computing: Apple Only?
For those that don’t know, HP decided to ditch it’s tablet computing division last week and let the remaining Touchpad stock go at fire sale prices. This has led some to proclaim that the tablet market is Apple’s, and only Apple’s – the one true tablet! Balderdash, of course, but sensationalism sells. However, Apple does [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Linux Tip: Permanently Disable NumPad Mouse Keys
I’ve been using Ubuntu with GNOME for my desktop Linux distro for a few years now. Every so often I found myself sometimes triggering the most annoying keybinding in the world: SHIFT + NUMLOCK. This turns on Mouse Keys in the Keyboard Preferences, rendering your numeric keypad completely useless. This is not the most obvious [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Google Music releases Linux Music Manager!
Hurrah, the Google overlords have heard my whining and deigned to answer my prayers – Google Music Manager is now available for Linux. I’m pleased that Google is considering it’s Linux user base, especially since they make one of the most popular Linux distros of all time for devices – Android
Read the rest of this entry »Migrating Openfire Instant Messaging Service
Jive Software’s community software organization Ignite Realtime has some great products available. One of the best is the Openfire, a real time collaboration (instant messaging) server: it’s open source, based on the XMPP (Jabber) transport open standard for easy integration with other tools and clients, is actively developed and widely used. For companies needing an [...]
Read the rest of this entry »PBX In A Flash: Custom Dialplans & FreePBX
PIAF is a great collection of Asterisk tools, and I’m pretty happy with the fact that someone has collected them all for me and put them together in a decent package. However if you’re wanting to delve a little deeper and get into more complex Asterisk dial plan scripting, it can be a bit of [...]
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