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Socially Responsible Technology Ideas

Here are some ideas for being “socially responsible” with technology, at least in the software engineering field:

1. I’ve found over the last year, I was able to reduce my electric bill by not running a server at my house. When I first started my business, I thought that it would be great to have [...]

More recent thoughts

I was reviewing my blog statistics today, and realized that most of my hits come from people looking for reviews on AT&T’s U-Verse service. If you haven’t read any of my other posts, I’ve had U-Verse since January of 2008. I had the TV and Internet products at the beginning. I was thinking of [...]

Some thoughts on social engineering

I’m reading “The Art of Deception” by Kevin Mitnick. It is interesting to read how it is so easy to get people to trust you and give information that would normally be held confidential. It makes me think that I should be much more careful about verifying the identity of who is calling or emailing [...]

Recent thoughts

I’m on vacation right now. I have a couple of books by Kevin Mitnick, which I’m hoping to get through reading by the end of the week. My thinking is that these books will help me understand how to secure my systems better, and also understand the “human nature” side of hacking. I also have [...]

IPv6 with U-Verse and router

I have been trying to configure my home network to use IPv6 for some time now. I finally figured out how to do it, and wanted to pass the information along.

First, the part that I had the most trouble finding how to do, is that you MUST configure your Residential Gateway (RG) to be [...]

Update on web hosting services

To those who read my blog, I’ve been absent for some time now, as you can see. I’ve been busy with a server upgrade. I’m thinking of taking my business in the direction of offering web technology services with an emphasis on high-uptime, and being a one-stop shop for all kinds of hosting, except for [...]

Google for business email

I’ve found that Google is going to be a great tool for my business to use concerning email. For the last 5 years, I’ve been using Microsoft Exchange server, hosted on a server at my house. Because of this, I had to do all kinds of tricks to get email to arrive at the server, [...]

Upgraded to WordPress

For anyone who reads this blog frequently, please be aware that I’ve switched over to WordPress. I decided that it was very inconvenient for blogger to have to keep republishing the whole blog every time I updated something. Also, it will help keep things more secure on the server by closing an FTP account.

I [...]

Thoughts on Debian Lenny

I’ve decided to dump Windows on my laptop. I had problems with XP being very slow. I tried to do a clean copy of 32-bit Vista. That worked, until something happened with that + TrueCrypt, and the system became unusable again.

My solution is to install Debian Lenny. So far, I’ve been very happy with [...]

Micro business cost reduction

Here are some ideas as a technology business that I’ve used in order to keep my fixed costs and expenses low. Maybe some of these will be helpful to those that read this blog.

1. If you use a dedicated server, consider a VPS or shared hosting. I was using a dedicated server, but soon [...]

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