Author Archives: gavin

What music gives you a “frisson”?

Talking about musical ‘frissons’ the goose bumps you get when you experience a piece of music that seems to go directly from your ears to your spine. Videos and mp3s illustrating known frisson generating tracks included. Continue reading

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Making your web app more secure; an upside of tumblr’s sexy data exposure

My take on web app security in light of tumblr’s recent configuration / system password exposure. tl;dr – “you gotta keep ‘em separated”. Continue reading

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I just filled up gmail — and then rolled it over!

Work gmail fills up, time to create a new gmail account. Sad business. Continue reading

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Android vs iPhone = Internet vs MSN (also, porn!)

Apple’s desire to retain control of the apps on the iphone/ipad is similar to Microsoft’s desire to favor their own “MSN” walled garden over the upstart “Interwebs”. Continue reading

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Win7 + Virtualbox + Ubuntu + Raid5 + LVM + Samba = Big Shared Filestorage

The problem: You have made a big raid array (terabyte range) that also uses the Logical Volume Manager (LVM) format in your Linux distro of choice. It’s sitting in a computer that you would also like the option of running … Continue reading

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pipe shell (command line) output to the web

List of increasingly geeky shell based text and image “paste to web” sites. Continue reading

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“i saw this and i thought of you…”

A photo taken in nyc, of Diesel’s new “stupid” ad campaign. Continue reading

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Ubuntu Karmic, not ready for primetime. Very sadly.

Pulseaudio / lucid, it’s not going to have any of those problems that whatever/karmic had Continue reading

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Flash, cookies, swfuploader and cisco loadbalancers = Fun!

How to make load balancers play nice with flash, avoiding the flash cookie problem. Continue reading

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The home server (almost) died. Phoenix like, all good now.

Way way way long ago (2002?) I installed what was known back then as the “e-smith server and gateway” I believe. A neat little redhat 7.x-based linux distro designed for people who were un-keen getting hands super dirty with Linux. … Continue reading

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