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A geekily-hilarious but also serious treatment of one of the least bigoted objections to the Marriage Equality decision of last Friday: the database administrators of the world now have hell to pay. Excerpt: humans- id- forename- surname- birthdate- sex_id (foreign key references column sexes)marriages- id-…

This WaPo article gives us an historical perspective on why the Internet was designed to operate mostly with no encryption.  The money quote: This is really a great piece on how the internet morphed from an academic & defense research project to the collective nervous…

I set out this weekend to figure out how to get PRTG Network Monitor to tell me the Internet bandwidth being used by our various machines, and where on the internet all that data is coming from or going to.  In order to get that…

I decided a while ago that I wanted to try a next-gen firewall.  So I recently acquired a small ARM-based PC with dual LAN interfaces, installed a disk in it and set to work getting Sophos Home UTM running. An old friend and co-worker of…

As you may have guessed, my toys are mostly pretty techie.  So I hear you ask, David, how do you choose your gadgets?  Well, absolutely free and worth the price, here is my advice for how to select a great value in a great gadget.