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The lottery as an investment vehicle
A Lucky Location? –KNE Photos By Danny Vowell | Kentucky New Era Sandy Tutt smiles while she scratches a lottery ticket Thursday afternoon at Skyline Fuel on Skyline Drive in Hopkinsville. “I play (the lottery) when it hits me,” Tutt said. “I don’t get mad. If I spend $20 and get $10 back, it’s good.”…
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Beat ISP tracking
Given that New Wave Communications is now looking to track it’s customers. I’m going to show you how to limit the usefulness of the information they can collect. The specific system used by New Wave relies on browser cookies to identify customers. Since cookies are very necessary for a lot of functionality on the web…
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New Wave is tracking the Interwebs
For several months I’ve been noticing splash advertising when a page I try to load is redirected elsewhere. The advertising itself was bad enough but now New Wave Communications has announced they will be allowing people to opt-in to be tracked. In exchange, customers will recieve more “customized” advertising and maybe some service discounts provided…
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spring cleaning
Today was reserved for spring cleaning. My laptop was far more disgusting than I want to admit. Lots of hair and food particulate was living under the keys becoming it’s own self-sustaining ecosystem. So today I made the time to disassemble the keyboard and thoroughly work all of the crud out. I am quite pleased…
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It Lives!
Sunday afternoon I sucessfully flashed the WRT54GL router with DD-WRT. In the preparations for doing the flash, I read alot on the DD-WRT website making certain I knew what to expect. The website makes it very clear that an improper flash can brick your hardware. Following the instructions exactly made the process relatively uneventful though…
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The Belkin is dead! Live Long Linksys!
This past Sunday I was unfortunate enough to watch the untimely death of my old Belkin wireless router. I wasn’t sad to watch it go but I did miss having my wireless available. That afternoon when I was deciding what I wanted to replace it with I didn’t want to go the “El Cheapo” route…
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Soap Box Derby pictures
The third annual Soap Box Derby in Hopkinsville was held today in downtown Hopkinsville. I was there for a couple of hours. I had the excellent idea to bring my camera. Here’s some of the photographs I took.
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Maintenance: 5/28/2008
Upgrades These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating world dependencies … done! [ebuild U ] dev-libs/libevent-1.4.3 [1.3a] 469 kB Total: 1 package (1 upgrade), Size of downloads: 469 kB After upgrading libevent make sure to run revdep-rebuild or else it will break nfs-utils.