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Things That Go Bump in the Night

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Posted on March 10, 2022 by Ed Skinner

Welcome This is an overview of threads and processes from an old-timer. Historical comments are included to help illuminate the whys and wherefores. While primarily focused on Unix-like realms such as Linux, most of what’s here applies to all contemporary … Continue reading →

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What’s a DNS, and Who Cares?

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Posted on December 8, 2021 by Ed Skinner

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. … Continue reading →

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Houston, We Have A Problem

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Posted on November 20, 2016 by Ed Skinner

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The log in our family firewall caught one of our home computers assaulting another one with three packets. It’s called a “Denial of Service” attack and it comes from a virus, affectionately named as you can see in the snippet … Continue reading →

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It’s 1984 Again

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Posted on September 24, 2016 by Ed Skinner

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Big Brother is watching you. Or to be precise, he’s watching your Android phone. Specifically, if you have an Android cell phone and have shopped for any new app, then you’ll have a Google account. There, you can find all sorts … Continue reading →

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Binary

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Posted on December 29, 2014 by Ed Skinner

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Lots of things come in twos. Here are three (!) examples. Everything in your computer is, at its lowest level, remembered as a set of binary “bits” each of which can be either a “1” or a “0” and if … Continue reading →

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Four

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Posted on December 23, 2014 by Ed Skinner

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Work days remaining: Today, Friday, and then next Monday and Tuesday Professional History 1968-1972, American Express, Programmer – This is stint #1 of 2 with American Express. It started as “Space Bank” and did computerized hotel and motel reservations. I started … Continue reading →

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Doing It The Right Way

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Posted on December 19, 2014 by Ed Skinner

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Six work-days to go. In school, I learned that good engineering can be done once but to consistently build things well, you need to write down the process you are following, and then repeat that process each time. Of course, … Continue reading →

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WordPress Tweaks

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Posted on September 1, 2014 by Ed Skinner

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WordPress enables some very low-level tweaking in a website’s appearance. This goes far deeper than font and color selection. It’s done through something called CSS which is an easy-to-remember abbreviation for the mouthful it represents, Cascaded Style Sheets. But please … Continue reading →

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Starting a Website for Someone Else

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Posted on August 29, 2014 by Ed Skinner

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I recently helped a friend set up a website to showcase her writing. We chose WordPress.com for several reasons including the availability of themes that are, in my (and her) opinion, a little more professional looking than what you’ll find … Continue reading →

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Engineering 101

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Posted on August 6, 2014 by Ed Skinner

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“What does this have to do with Bullsye?” you might ask. Well, this process is what Bullseye shooters do to develop a successful shot plan: We write the steps down, follow those steps and, when something doesn’t work, we figure … Continue reading →

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