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Home is Where the PGP is

I saw this location-reference sticker the other day and loved it:

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2009 01 26 Jason Tech Comments (0)

Tor Roadmap

The Tor Project recently released it’s roadmap for the next three years, and the roadmap is a worthwhile scan for anyone involved in networking and/or online anonymity.
I follow Tor development and have been lucky enough to meet and chat extensively with two of the lead developers in the project.

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2009 01 02 Jason Tech Comments (0)

Lots Of New Personal Computing Changes

I have lots and lots of data. For a long time, I was just adding hard drives. Now, however, I have a real solution and it’s all beautifully implemented.
Until recently, my home computing environment consisted of:

Dell Dimension 4400 (P4 2Ghz) that has been upgraded and tweaked extensively. It sports a 40GB main drive and three [...]

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2007 05 06 Jason Tech Comments (1)

Miscellaneous Tech House Keeping

My home computers are in need of some TLC. There are no major problems, just little things. Here is a wrap up of some of the issues and solutions, some of which the readers of this blog might find worthwhile:
About two weeks ago, I downloaded Juicen, a program that handles your “podcast” (I hate that [...]

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2006 12 20 Jason Tech Comments (2)

Annoying Mac OS X Issue

I downloaded a song off Juliana Hatfield’s Web site to see what quality the tracks are offered. When it finished downloading, I tried to “Get Info” for the track to see the sample rate. Mac OS X doesn’t display this info. I had to load it up in a media player to display this type [...]

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2006 09 09 Jason Music Comments (0)

The File Solution

Imagine a situation where you want to share large amounts of data among people who are located around the universe. All are sufficiently wired so no worries about connections and probably no worries about bandwidth (but we can always want more). How to go about this?
Among the slightly inconvenient methods I currently use are FTP [...]

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2006 08 30 Jason Tech Comments (0)

Encrypting Communications

Between 733t h4×0r5 and the government, it has long been my desire to better secure my communications.
Recent stories on our corporate friends unquestioningly cooperating with our government friends re-fueled my fire. Thankfully, I have some extra time to read up and play with the technologies.
E-mail-wise, I use SSL, so good for me. I would like [...]

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2006 05 15 Jason Tech Comments (3)

Does Your ISP Throttle Traffic?

Wondering what your ISP’s policy on BitTorrent traffic is? Wonder no longer using this table.
I came across the table via a LifeHacker post that took me to a Web site explaining how to encrypt BT traffic that had a link to the table.

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2006 04 19 Jason Tech Comments (0)

Sling Media’s Slingbox

I wrote a quick note about Sling Media’s Slingbox for High Tech Bulletin. If you do not know what Slingbox is, I suggest you read the article. If you do, you probably will not learn anything knew so do not bother hopping over.

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2006 03 31 Jason Finance/Economics
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Microsoft’s Presence Initative

I attended VON 2006, a trade show focused on VoIP from an enterprise perspective. I have an upcoming article or two regarding the show, which I will post on the site, but for now I wanted to comment on Microsoft’s presence initiative.
For those unfamiliar to “presence,” it is one of the latest buzzwords in tech. [...]

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2006 03 29 Jason Finance/Economics
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