Month: June 2011

What is a Port Number & Common Ports

What Is a Port Number? To the uninitiated or the otherwise-gifted computer user, technical geek-speak can be rather frustrating and aggravating. When instructions are filled with such things as \”port,\” \”TCP,\” \”UDP,\” and other acronyms or technical terminology, the user feels more isolated and rarely finds a solution or comprehension. Fortunately, comprehension is just moments […]

Watch all the passwords!

[youtube http://www.youtube.com?v=0uXbosbLBBQ] Here\’s all 25,727 passwords from the LulzSec hack, displayed one password per frame.  Here\’s a hint when \”000000\” is display for about 30 seconds or so, that\’s not a good thing.  That means multiple people were using the same password…

A Girl and Her Bike: Victory (sort of)

I was stopped at the intersection of 13th and Kenyon St. NW at a red light, waiting to turn left onto 13th St. Kenyon is a one-way street going west, and I was on the left side of the street, since I would be turning left. While waiting for the light I heard a car […]

10 Free Desktop Applications for Managing Your Code Snippets

One problem I have always had, is keeping my programming code organized.  I have short demonstration applications, code examples, and more scattered around.  Some of it in Evernote, some of it just in a file in my programming directory… I have yet to find the right application for the job… But, I\’ll be going through […]