I’ve worked with a LOT of genealogy software applications over the years and all of them have left me, for one reason or another, unsatisfied. I started experimenting with The Next Generation of Genealogy Sitebuilding, also known as TNG, back in mid-2010, but really started digging deep into the application over the past few months. …
Back in February of this year, I released a Greasemonkey Script that would modify the theme from the Hack A Day site so it was a little easier on my “old eyes”! The script works by changing CSS and HTML elements after they have been received by my browser. The good folks over at Hack …
If you have regular web sites that you visit, I bet I’m safe in guessing that at least one of them has something about it that you wish was different. You know what I mean — a different background color, larger fonts, menus in a different location, etc. That site for me is “Hack A …
The current issue of 2600: The Hacker Quarterly has an article on cryptography that outlines the use of the Vernam Cipher (aka One-time pad) to encrypt text by hand. What makes this technique interesting is its ease of implementation, but even more interesting than that is the fact that the Vernam Cipher is the only …
Most of my computer time is spent on my Mac inside the gorgeous OS/X GUI using the tools that are necessary for me to run my business. Many of my side projects, however, take me back to my beloved Bash Shell which I can use on my Mac, where it gets plenty of use, but …
Have you ever wished you could create a list of all of the email addresses that you have communicated with over the years? Perhaps you’re building an email distribution list or need to notify everyone that you’re changing your address. Whatever the reason, the task is very simple if you are using an email client …
If you tinker with technology then chances are you already know what the “Internet of Things” is all about. If you don’t know, then my question to you is, where have you been!? For those of you not in the know, here’s a quick primer. “The Internet of Things is a network of Internet-enabled objects, …
In my first post, in this three-part series, I wrote about how I physically interfaced my Ademco Alarm Panel to my Home Automation computer. In this article, I will show you how to capture the data stream that comes through that interface, how to parse it and then how to make use of it in …
We are finally ready to complete this series and leave you with a fully functional and cost free backup solution. Now that you have your server setup and have an initial copy of the data you want to backup on the box, we’re ready to go back to our source machine and setup our backups. …
In the last two articles, we have laid the groundwork for getting our backups in place. By now you should have your site selected, your server built and your router and firewall(s) configured. Now let’s talk about the last big preparatory item before we get to the backup itself. So what is this last step …
