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Dealer Warranty Services Reloaded
Dealer Warranty Services is still sending out those misleading post cards. Everything I said before still applies. The latest news about the lawsuits in Missouri comes from August when National Dealers Warranty Inc was forced to change the way they do business and pay almost $30,000 in fines. A St. Louis-area business that sent misleading…
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Hardcore Kernel Literature
Previously, my hard core Linux kernel news has come from free sources like kerneltrap and kernelnewbies. When I started tracking the development kernel releases. I wanted more information about the changes coming and what it meant for my hardware. When kerneltrap is writing regular updates he provides pretty good information. kernelnewbies is another good source…
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Shatner Kicking Ass
A scene from Boston Legal has Bill Shatner kicking ass and taking names. In this scene, Denny Crane is held at gunpoint by a black man but the robber is too slow on the draw.
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Murder Your Virtual Husband, go to Real Prison
TOKYO, Japan (AP) — A 43-year-old Japanese woman whose sudden divorce in a virtual game world made her so angry that she killed her online husband’s digital persona has been arrested on suspicion of hacking, police said Thursday. The woman, who is jailed on suspicion of illegally accessing a computer and manipulating electronic data, used…
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BB&T Bank Passwords
I just happened to change my password recently on my online banking. I found out that Branch Banking and Trust (BB&T) limits the maximum password length to 12 characters, cannot contain any special characters like an exclamation point, and the passwords are not case sensitive. Screenshots are below of the online banking interface. Putting such…
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Resentful Givers and Ungrateful Takers
It’s amazing to watch a conversation between a liberal-minded person and conservative-minded person. They might be in the same room or on the same Internet forum but they are in orbits counter to each other around the same gravity well. Posted by DawgMa What it Means to be a Democrat I’m sure that some of…
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Simple rsync backup
One of my goals for running a dedicated home server was for backup purposes. I already have a Simpleshare NAS that works OK but if it fails my data is still lost. Unlike previous computers, the Shuttle PC K4500 is so quiet that I can run it 24/7. From the Shuttle PC, I can mount…
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Critical Kernel Options
The Shuttle PC K4500 had a lot of unfamiliar hardware on it when I first bought it. The most critical part being the SATA drivers. 00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801GB/GR/GH (ICH7 Family) SATA IDE Controller (rev 01) The pertinent option in menuconfig was to enable “Intel ESB, ICH, PIIX3, PIIX4 PATA/SATA Support” in the…