Month: July 2013

Sysadmin Appreciation Day

Fifteen years ago, I knew a teenager, who spent his evenings hacking away on his Gateway 2000 486, and his days trying to work his way around the security put in place to prevent him and his fellow students from accessing data they shouldn’t. Never malicious, just curious, and thirsty for control of something. That…


Freeing a Nook Tablet from the bonds of slavery.

So, my wife has a Nook Tablet. I bought it for her a little under 2 years ago as a gift, and she loves it. She’s a big reader, and this thing has done a great job of feeding her addiction. Over the time she’s owned it, she’s asked me to install certain apps on…