Last night my computer was automatically restarted by Windows Update after installing an update that required a reboot. This seems rather risky to me, unless the security update was so urgent that a hacker could immediate compromise your system. To me, this seems like the only case in which Windows should automatically restart your computer….Continue Reading…
ThinkGeek sent out their newsletter, in which one of the featured products was a new Pilot Watch with Slide Rule. I thought it was interesting, until Simon pointed out that pilot watches often have slide rules. Apparently this isn’t unusual (just the marketing is). There are lots of nice watches at chase-durer.com.
It’s national pi day! Note that pi (3.14) day is also Albert Einstein’s birthday. Does it get any better than this?!
I have a dream that people will one day live in a world wide web where they will not be judged by the owner of their IP block but by the content of their posts. I have a dream today!
SSH to the machine, switch to root, then: useradd -u uid -g group -m username (-u and -g are optional) then: passwd username to define the user password. done!
Try this link. You can put your own text on T-Mobile’s site. Perhaps you can even get it to run arbitrary code. https://my.t-mobile.com/Login/?rc=… (Update: they’ve fixed it, maybe because I pointed it out =) No harm done.)