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After my car got broken into a few weeks ago, I started worrying about one of most precious possessions: my laptop. After a few hours of hacking I came up with this script called Bacon (beacon was too obvious), which sends the laptop’s current IP address and some other info to my server, so if […]

Cool idea for cell phones

Someone should come up with an “away message” type feature for cell phones. Instead of having to do all the complicated stuff to change your voice mail message, you should just be able to hit a button and say “I’m in a meeting, I’ll be back in 30 mins” or “I’m at the beach, I’ll […]

Farewell, Windows Part 2

You might remember my post a few months ago about how I was finally ditching windows and switching to Linux. Unfortunately, that lasted about a week. Its not that I didn’t like it or things didn’t work, but mostly because I was too lazy to learn how to use everything. I slowly started going back […]