How much is security worth to you? What about freedom? Currently, the Internet is akin to the Western United States in the 1800s. It is mostly a lawless land, unorganized, untaxed, and full of roaming bad guys. The commercial sector is exploiting it more and more. And in turn, is being harassed by the bad [...]

Last night at 10:20PM CST, the droid’s green status light started blinking. It was an email on one’s school email. Titled “An Important Message From The University of Minnesota”, the message claimed that one needed to provide information in order to retain one’s email account after a mail server upgrade. 25 minutes later the message [...]

That’s correct, there will be a WordCamp in Minnesota this year. It will be held on November 13th, at the Egan Community Center. Mark your calenders as this will be an exciting and busy, day long event for users and developers of all skill levels. Additional information will be made available in the coming months.
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A few weeks back while dissembling an old DVD-ROM drive (to harvest it’s red laser diode), one decided to take out the camera and an LED flashlight. Going into a dark room, the optic unit of the DVD drive was placed on a white surface. Then the flashlight was placed on top of the unit, [...]

A good friend, JD, posed about his favorite home built computers since his first in 1997. So, one thought it would be appropriate to share one’s computing history.
Let’s start back, a long, long time ago, in the year 1997. That was the year one received one’s fist computer. It was nothing special, a salvaged embedded [...]