Controlling Your Laptop’s Fan Noise

Does your laptop sound like a fully-loaded B-52 bomber going for a takeoff? I have a Dell XPS-15. These generally well-regarded machines are also...

Anatomy of Internet Bullshit

Here's an oldie from two years ago that reared its ugly head on Pocket: Starting Your Day on the Internet Is Damaging Your Brain,...

Late Night Rant: College Admissions Scandal

This is America: you're either a duper or a dupee. I'm a duper. You guys are the dupees. — Frank Reynolds (Danny DeVito), It's Always...

Adding and Removing sshd instances on CentOS 7

As a follow-up to my previous post about adding sshd instances on CentOS 5 & 6, here's a script that does the same on...

Adding and Removing sshd instances on CentOS 6

This is a process and a couple of script to allow you to setup an additional sshd service on an alternate port. The two scripts...

Late Night Rant: Facebook

According to media reports, since 2012, millions of Facebook and Instagram logins and plaintext passwords have been sitting on some internal Facebook system, accessible...

Notes on ownCloud configuration

The ownCloud file sharing application has been around for some time now, but somehow evaded my attention. My limited imagination makes me say "think...

The Unix Oriental

Placed quite appropriately in the "Security" category - my favorite Oriental cocktail recipe. Distinguishing it from the classic preparation, are absence of sweet vermouth...

Multi-Dimensional Arrays in Bash

Bash does not support multi-dimensional arrays, but there is a way to imitate this functionality, if you absolutely have to. As a quick example, here's...