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I got hacked last month... so this is where I fess up to where I messed up.

This blog was offline for a few weeks I had my account suspended, my blog down, and a entirely warrented, and slightly annoyed email from my VPS host threatening to shut down my service if this happened again…. cause I was too lazy to set key based authentication. I always

Getting a dark, non monochrome theme for ttrss

Yeah, this is primarily for my own reference in case I need to rebuild but it might be useful for someone else. The night theme in ttrss is actually *meant* for night time use, and the developer has *gradually* added support for images to be monochrome. I use it all

Got Fedora 21 working on the HP stream...

And it was a minor pain. Everything is supported out of the box (even the emmc that makes older kernels apparently pitch a fit) *except* the trackpad.For some reason fedora (kde?) dosen’t support touch pads out of the box, and I didn’t have a spare mouse handy.

New hardware Mini Review: The HP Stream 11

I’m not sure if the netbook is a Phoenix rising from the ashes or a zombie. The very small, low powered system with a *proper* keyboard is pretty handy, and while I won’t go as far as calling tablets a fad, a fancy touch screen is no match

Adventures in ultra low cost system building, and getting my feet wet with fedora

I tend to maintain two types of systems – high-mid range gaming PCs, like my lovely core i7, and low powered home servers. My old atom server is getting noisy, and I wanted to get a new toy. Ended up looking around and picking up a gigabyte brix – specifically a N2807

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