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Professional computer geek and linguist living in Germany, doing infosec stuff and being the freakiest mother ever.
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Tag Archives: hardware
Adieu, beloved laptop…
My laptop, a crappy (and very heavy) old Dell Inspiron 1100, may not seem like much to you, but when I got it in 2003, I had been dying to have a laptop for, oh, I don’t know, six years … Continue reading
Better than “a time sex thing”…
Today’s Language Log cracked me up – there have been a few very good posts of late which display some of the excellent mistranslations found in translations from Chinese to English (the phrase in this post’s title is referenced in … Continue reading
Fun with blog stats, and saying goodbye to U3…
Well, apparently my disturbing popularity as a top hit for removing U3 software from Sandisk (and other) thumb drives is at an end, which amuses me highly. Now this blog is back to what it was meant to be, a … Continue reading
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Tagged blogging, corporate bullshit, hardware, Internet, Musings, software
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Take your right to vote seriously. Take your vote seriously.
We watched Unprecedented: The 2000 Presidential Election this evening, a documentary about election irregularities and how the 2000 election progressed. I hate watching these things, in that they depress me about the state of this country so severely, but they … Continue reading
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Tagged Administration, Bush, Denver, hardware, Politics, security, software
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Removing U3 (and associated bundled software) from the SanDisk Cruzer Micro USB flash drive
Ok, so this isn’t really a hack per se, but it’s useful information for anyone who’s just bought one of these little puppies. I saw this nice little 1GB USB flash drive when I was in Wisconsin last week for … Continue reading
