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
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
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
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
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
pipe shell (command line) output to the web
List of increasingly geeky shell based text and image “paste to web” sites. Continue reading
“i saw this and i thought of you…”
A photo taken in nyc, of Diesel’s new “stupid” ad campaign. Continue reading
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
Flash, cookies, swfuploader and cisco loadbalancers = Fun!
How to make load balancers play nice with flash, avoiding the flash cookie problem. Continue reading
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