I will never understand why people join Facebook or why they don’t ditch Facebook. You should never post that much about yourself online. “Oh no, I have private pages” is the usual response. Well, 553 Million users just had their personal information posted on a hacker site. Yes, your information. If you are a user you should expect you are part of the 500 million. Yes, I’ve posted about security breaches before. They happen all … Yet Another Reason to Ditch FacebookRead more
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Why Every Company No Matter How Small Needs a Disaster Recovery Plan
No, you can’t just “host it in the cloud” and call that your Disaster Recovery plan. That’s the start of your disaster. Featured image by Akela999 from Pixabay Fly-by-night AGILE shops (okay, fly-by-night and AGILE is saying the same thing twice) always want to believe Security is the other guy’s problem. AGILE and Web company shops They want to hire a group of low wage developers to badly connect a bunch of existing services then … Why Every Company No Matter How Small Needs a Disaster Recovery PlanRead more
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Need an UpVote at Icons8
Ah, my loyal blog readers, I need an upvote on a request at Icons8. Actually need about a dozen so hopefully there are at least one dozen of the 22,205 “registered users” of this blog. Just upvote this. It looks like this. Pretty self explanatory. I’ve written about Icons8 before. They have free to use (as long as you follow the free licensing policy which isn’t onerous) and some are really good. They tend to … Need an UpVote at Icons8Read more
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A Fedora 33 Virus?
Several weeks ago Google started popping up their “we’ve noticed suspicious activity” screen and making me respond to a Captcha any time I used them to search something. I try to use Google as little as possible because nobody should be allowed to collect that much information about anyone. Sometimes, when all my other search engines fail I have to go there. This finally became too annoying. The Google screen also said it through one … A Fedora 33 Virus?Read more
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How to install Jed on Arch Linux
Most Linux distros have Jed in their repos. You should install Jed whenever you set up a new Linux system. Many Linux utilities that launch a terminal based editor will default to Jed if they find it. If not they usually stick you with icky-nasty vi. The “approved” way rather sucks. Arch based distros like Manjaro provide pamac. Arch wants everyone to do everything by themselves. First you have to find the package you want … How to install Jed on Arch LinuxRead more