Software
Style, Plans, and HistoryMaintenance
July 11, 2023
History and notes for flat5.net and edskinner.net.
Tips, Tricks, and TrapsMaintenance
July 11, 2023
Oddities and quirks with hugo, and how to remove Wordpress from a website.
Computers Lie and CheatPost
November 14, 2022
WarGames In the movie WarGames, the programmer of the WOPR computer left a backdoor login.
Cooking Up Plutonium-238
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September 5, 2022
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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
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March 10, 2022
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March 10, 2022
Two Versions, Same Content There are two versions of this document.
What’s a DNS, and Who Cares?
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December 8, 2021
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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
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November 20, 2016
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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
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September 25, 2016
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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.