Today marks another milestone in my professional career. I’m going to begin
writing blog posts about a great new Information Technology Service Management
(ITSM) tool called ServiceNow [http://www.servicenow.com]. We
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A friend of mine (he has a blog over here [http://aucontrary.com]) gave me an
idea for a program. He wanted to know when his kids got home (and when they
left)
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For reasons beyond anyone’s understanding, Apple sets OS X’s bluetooth audio
quality quite low, this is probably to allow for better bandwidth, but still.
When I first read the bluetooth quality
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See my other article here [https://robpickering.com/?p=1025] for instructions on how to
root the Nexus 7 under OSX in the first place. Some of those instructions are
repeated in this
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I got a Nexus 7 last year and have been playing with it on and off since then.
Recently I upgraded to JellyBean 4.2.2 and it toasted my Root. I went
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I’ve been on a bit of a productivity kick recently. My newfound passion with
productivity was a direct result of a guy I work with (thanks @DigitalPeterson)
hassling me about dusting off
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Keeping your system up to date is the single most important way to prevent
security and malware issues. Ubuntu provides nice tools for maintaining your
system, but if you manage it via a
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I run an Astaro Security Gateway (ASG) from Sophos (now called Sophos Unified
Threat Management [http://www.sophos.com/en-us/products/unified/utm.aspx] (UTM))
for the bulk of my firewall needs at
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In managing Unix systems, you will often have occasion to have a process or
action performed at boot time.
There are several ways of accomplishing this goal, but the right way is to
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WordPress is one of the most popular blogging platforms on the Internet. One of
the first things I do when I setup a new WordPress installation is harden it.
You can read about
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iCloud debuted Tuesday for all iOS 5.0 devices. On Friday, the iPhone 4S was
released. You’d think that would be a banner week for us. However, there is
disharmony afoot in
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WordPress [http://wordpress.org] is an extremely popular web platform with about
7% of all websites
[http://wpcandy.com/presents/a-look-at-wordpress-market-share-numbers] running
WordPress. That large a population means that attackers have a rich
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This article is about the NOOK Color and how to convert it from a stock device,
make modifications to enable additional features, and finally convert it into a
full-blown Android tablet (running either
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Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6]) is the
“new” Internet addressing protocol created by the Internet Engineering Task
Force (IETF [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Engineering_Task_
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