Tales from the Technoverse

  • When Is It ‘Okay’ To Hack Into A System?

    Recently there was a situation where a student at Dawson College in Montreal hacked into his school’s network and was expelled from the school. What seemed like a pretty obvious and reasonable result turned out not to be so clear-cut. Eric Chabrow wrote a column on this at govinfosecurity.com, The Ethics Behind Gray-Hat Hacking. He asked…

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  • Interviewed for the 29 Jan CTOvision Podcast

    Bob Gourley and I have put in place an informal agreement for me to participate in the CTOvision Podcasts periodically. The focus will be relate to cybersecurity issues. The first podcast in the series was recorded  yesterday, January 29th and can be accessed here: http://ctovision.com/2013/01/29-jan-cyber-podcast/  

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  • How AFCEA Improved My Home Wireless Network

    This last Saturday I was lucky enough to attend the annual AFCEA volunteer appreciation event at FedEx field. While there Ellen and I got to meet Brian Mitchell, a very classy guy and a great former Redskin. I also ran into an old friend from my Sun days, Dennis McLain, who continues to be one…

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  • Washington Capitals Hockey Is Back

    So I am happy to report for those who do not know (and for the vast majority who do not care) that the National Hockey League (NHL) will in fact have a hockey season for 2012-13. Well, 2013 anyway, consisting of 48 games, 24 at home. The article about the Capitals schedule is here, http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capitals-insider/wp/2013/01/12/capitals-schedule-released/.…

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  • Thoughts Regarding the Publishing of the Names & Addresses of Gun Owners

    The publishing of the names and addresses of local gunowners by the Westchester Journal News in December, http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/01/02/newspaper-decision-to-out-gun-owners-sparks-all-out-battle/, was, to put it mildly controversial. It has led to a lot of strong reactions in large part as far as I could tell driven by one’s position on the Second Amendment of the Constitution relating to the…

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  • Comcast Neck and Neck With PEPCO

    For a while now, our Comcast cable and internet access has been pretty solid, leaving the field to PEPCO as the most remarkable (and I do not mean that in a positive way) utility we deal with. However, Comcast does seize the moment to stay competitive. Friday night both the Internet and Cable went out…

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  • The NHL and Revenue Sharing

    I wrote about the Hockey Lockout earlier this month, https://www.ourownlittlecorner.com/2012/12/08/my-two-cents-about-the-hockey-lockout/. Sadly the lockout continues though there are some signs that it may be finally coming to an end. It seems to me that the fundamental problem with the NHL is that the owners have not come to terms with the economic realities of modern professional…

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  • My Two Cents About the Hockey Lockout

    My spectator sports life normally has symmetry about it. Six months of the year I care about the Washington Nationals and six months of the year I care about the Washington Capitals. While I notice that Washington has a professional basketball team and have flung in my face that it has a professional football team,…

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  • An Unexpected Issue With A Home Office

    So over the last couple of months I have established a home/office for my almost LLC esem consulting. All of the office kinds of stuff have been relatively straight forward but as usual technology is waiting to trip one up. I have a blue tooth enabled phone earpiece (earbud? ear<whatever>) I use during the day…

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  • Word Processing

    “When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.”  “The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean so many different things.” “The question is,” said Humpty Dumpty, “which is to be master – –…

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