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Kindle Fire Connectbot Followup

Just a quick followup to the previous article I had on getting connectbot to work on the Kindle Fire. A lot of people have been asking for an unofficial apk of the changes I’ve made. Initially I hesitated – I wanted to follow the official channels. Initially, I posted this article with some links to [...]

Getting Connectbot working on Kindle Fire

Ever since getting the Kindle Fire I’ve been dreaming of the day that I can get ConnectBot working.  The first hurdle is that this is not available in the Amazon market.  Luckily, being under the Apache License they did have code available on the google code site. After

A Simple OpenBSD Router For Your Virtual Machines

Why do i need a separate router for virtual servers I tend to use VirtualBox a lot at home for experimenting with different operating systems or trying out scenarios that are too dangerous to “do it live”. While I could just give these virtual machines a bridged connection, I like to try to keep things [...]

The Backups 321 Rule Illustrated

3 – Have three backups.  So have a backup, and a backup of your backup.  But surely, another is just madness?  The first copy of your backup is just to save yourself from silly mistakes, like accidentally deleting your backup. 2 – Have your backups on at least two different media.  Which makes sense.  If [...]

Checking Your Reddit Karma with Common Lisp

Curious to learn more about programming in Common Lisp I decided to write a quick little reddit karma checker. Having just recently learned of quicklisp (a script that greatly simplifies using 3rd party libraries with Lisp), I was ready to wing it and see what I could come up with.  I’m going to share with [...]