borg.org, the nobody reads it blog.
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Android Phones Won't Keep Time Precisely
Google should use the GPS receiver. They should use NTP. But they trust the cell carrier. Recently I have been in awe of what an amazing thing my Nexus One is. For example, with few instances of a little 2×1 widget called myUTC Clock, one of my home screens turns into an 8-timezone pocket watch. […]
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Healthful Diet: A Too-Simple Summary
Everyone else pontificates on what we should eat, why can’t I? Two big points, A and B. A. Only eat food that is made of … food! This means don’t eat junk food. This also means don’t eat most convenience foods. If you look in the freezer case at the grocery store there will be […]
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Bitching about the Obama economy is like telling Captain Sully: "The Hudson was the wrong destination! And why am I all wet!?"
Our economy nearly died, and you are griping about it being too sluggish? We almost had to rename the Great Depression! World War One got renamed. It started out as The Great War, the “war to end all wars”. But a few years later we had an even bigger war, and we had to rename […]
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Sony Passwords: Now do you believe you should not reuse passwords on different sites?
Sony has been cracked. Multiple times. It seems Sony employs nerds who know nothing about security. Now, sonypictures.com has had a million username and passwords (and other information: DoB, e-mail) scooped up and made public. Are you on that list? The Playstation breaks would have been even more users. It hasn’t been posted public, are […]
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Write Down Your Passwords
Recently someone pointed out that an Ubuntu mailing list will e-mail a forgotten password back to you. And that this is wrong. Well, I agree, but… I am never bothered when a mailing list sends me a plaintext password. But I do something Extremely Radical: I don’t reuse passwords. If a mailing list password of […]
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Python Command Line Arguments
For quite some time I have thought I shouldn’t parse my own command line arguments in Python, but each time I looked for the “right” way to do it, I turned back. Today, I decided to persist. Now I know why I turned back, the libraries were terrible. I want to have: mycleverprog.py mycommand –nifty-option […]
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Android Pattern Unlock Insecure
When I first saw the pattern unlock feature in Android phones I thought: Cool! And I used it on my Nexus One. Until I realized that it is a really stupid idea if I want my phone to be secure. Don’t do it. The problem is that the phone screen gets smudged. And when you […]