So, in response to my last post, a friend of mine who moves in the infosec world left me a wall-o-text on FaceBook. And, rather than start a flame war, I’m simply documenting my responses here. His response: I think you and I have fundamentally different approaches to the Internet…

Anyone who told you there was a “Web 2.0” was lying. We’re consistently running in version 0.9.6b. Is that b for beta? b for “release before c”? We don’t know. And if that sounds like a joke, that’s the version of OpenSSL most of us used before heartbleed happened. For…

Back 30-ish years ago, when CDs were stupidly expensive, I came home from my high school in Upstate New York, stopped off at the Nobody Beats the Wiz store in New York City, and paid good money for the soundtrack to the movie “Benny and Joon”. It proudly proclaimed, by…

Before I travel and don’t have access to my Intel Mac mini that can bootcamp and run Windows 10/11 on Intel Silicon, I’m attempting to get my Windows 11 via VMware Fusion system going again, just in case. I’ll note that the “CanOpener” Windows XP VM that I use to…

Like an addict at a self-help group, I shamefully confess: “Hi, I’m Dan, and I use Apple Maps.” I tried Waze once, sure. This was back when I had an iphone 4S, before Apple Maps was doing turn-by-turn (which came with the move from Google map data to TomTom), back…

Sometimes, when I’m very stressed, communications becomes hard, and miscommunications can be so bad I wonder if I’m having a stroke. I believe I’ve come up with an analogy to explain this, and I can sum it up for anyone who is remotely technical. For the rest of you, I…

Or: How I changed 200 passwords to dismiss an annoying dialog box — Part 1: Why I use iCloud keychain Apple’s password manager, iCloud Keychain, is an interesting tool that I’ve found works better than anything else for me. It natively knows how to suggest secure passwords, and natively syncs them across all my iThings. …

At the Day Job, we manage a fleet of Dell Poweredge servers out in the wild. They are often donated to us, and often in odd, remote locations where smart hands are either difficult to coordinate because of access, or time zones — or pandemics. And occasionally, they have interesting…

I like retrocomputing. I routinely emulate an apple classic to run classic word processing apps. One of my prior posts on this blog was about getting postscript support playing nice with a DOS version of MS Works. I emulate old game systems all the time, and keep not only a…