Firefox shoots itself in the foot to annoy you into being more secure
The web has been abuzz this past week with news Mozilla is planning to start making some features work exclusively with secure HTTP connections. It...
An Outsider’s Perspective on Windows 10 Preview
I have been living almost exclusively in the Linux/BSD camp for over ten years now. While I occasionally find myself using Windows computers in offices...
Why consoles?
Though I have spent far more hours than I care to admit playing video games, I have never owned a game console. That’s not to...
Distributed Torrents
Last week several torrent indexing websites were taken off-line, probably the most popular one being The Pirate Bay. While websites that facilitate finding and sharing...
My Linux Journey
My Linux journey began in the late 1990s when I was in college. I was taking a course on operating systems which covered Windows NT...
Thoughts on systemd and the freedom to choose
Over the past year I’ve been reading a lot of opinions on the new init technology, systemd. Some people think systemd is wonderful, the bee’s...