Category: computing

• Great interview on hacker spaces, responsible disclosure (TCLP)

  Thomas interviews Tiffany Rad in this episode of The Commandline Podcast. I appreciated this interview because, as a father, I am interested in all the ways I can expose my kids to learning opportunities, and while I might not end up with little net-running hellions, it sounds like public schools are often becoming less and…

  jedreynolds

  May 19, 2011

  computing, education, Programming, science, security

  auto industry, dmca, education, engineering, hacking, home schooling, interview, liability, reverse engineering

• Mighty Good Story: Shannon’s Law (Escape Pod)

  Episode 291 of Escape Pod is Mur reading Shannon’s Law, by Cory Doctorow, a chapter from the Bordertown anthology. I love the idea of actually building a TCP/IP network using carrier pidgeon, ogre’s laundry lines and the dust on the wings of a butterfly.

  jedreynolds

  May 13, 2011

  Books, computing, Fiction, fun

  bordertown, cory dotorow, elfland, escape pod, mur lafferty

• Copy Protection for Our Identities

  Another idea sprouted: I love the concept that Doc Searls discusses about the Intention Oriented Economy. This is the reverse of the identity oriented economy where we supplicate our commercial oligarchy with our percious identifiable information for free stuff so they can better advertise to us. Rather–it makes much more sense to develop an anonymous…

  jedreynolds

  May 12, 2011

  browser security, computing, F/LOSS, firefox, mozilla, privacy, security

  attestation, doc searls, drm, intention economy, tpm

• Some Thots on Online Anonymity

  I found this idea sprouting in my cereberal loam and transplant is into yours: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte have been discussing the topic of the DNT header and congruent proposed privacy legislation. They are worried that the notion of tracking cookies will either be legislated to present manditory EULA agreements before acceptance, or that…

  jedreynolds

  May 12, 2011

  browser security, business, civil liberty, computing, economy, F/LOSS, firefox, mozilla, privacy, security

  advertising, browser cookies, legislation, marketing, online anonymity, online privacy, perishable identity, protocol design

• Tiny Computers: 4 for $100

  This would be an awesome exhibit for LinuxFest Northwest 2012: small usb computer kit.

  jedreynolds

  May 6, 2011

  computing, education, F/LOSS, Linux, science, sustainable living

  homebrew, inexpensive, Linux, mobile, small, tiny, usb

• Quick thot on MySQL

  Had a good question in my MySQL talk about how to monitor performance, and of course I suggested turning on the MySQL slow query log. What I neglected to mention, however, was mytop. This little utility is found in the rpmforge repo and it’s like a top(1) for your mysql queries. The basis for it…

  jedreynolds

  May 4, 2011

  computing, F/LOSS, Linux, Programming

  MySQL, mytop, perfomance

• @lfnw #bike #gps sunday noon

  Interested in doing a short ride with GPS and uploading to OpenStreetMap.org? Mapping Party, OSM Talk. Forum discussion.

  jedreynolds

  April 27, 2011

  computing, Cycling, F/LOSS, Linux

  #lfnw, gsm, mapping party, mapping ride, open street map, osm

• LinuxFest Northwest 2011: Traffic Control in Apache

  Here are my slides for traffic control in Apache. I decided that last years presentation about Apache rewrites actually sat in a much bigger context of information architecture, performance and caching. So I’ve generalized the discussion and reduced the number of mouse-print code examples. Slides:2011-apache

  jedreynolds

  April 27, 2011

  computing, F/LOSS

  Apache, caching, headers, information architechture, proxy, redirects, rewrites, traffic

• LinuxFest Northwest 2011: MySQL Overview

  These are the slides I’ll be presenting with for my MySQL Overview talk. Last year I called it the “MySQL Buffet”…and I prolly have more slides up here than time window. Slides:2011-mysql-buffet You’ll find a surprise slide, “boring” in there. And this is pretty much my take on the Oracle acquisition of Sun thus of MySQL AB.…

  jedreynolds

  April 27, 2011

  computing, F/LOSS

  #lfnw, drizzle, LinuxFest Northwest, mariadb, MySQL, oracle

• LinuxFest Northwest 2011…comin’ round the mountain!

  I’m looking forward to LinuxFest Northwest 2011 this year! I’ll be presenting on the MySQL database and how to control web traffic in Apache. I’ll even be presenting in the Linux Action Room and will get to show my evil grin to Chris and Bryan :-) I’ll be posting my slides ahead of time, I…

  jedreynolds

  April 26, 2011

  Bellingham, computing, F/LOSS, Linux

  bellingham technical college, bike, btc, linux action room, LinuxFest Northwest, penguin