Internet USB Radio

As can probably be inferred by some of my previous posts, I’m a supporter of using throw-away hardware to learn new things.

Managing an Android Fleet

There are a handful of android devices used by my family and, being a geek+dad, management of those devices has been ignored left to be my responsibility.

Isolated Communication Platforms for Security Teams

I fail to understand why it hasn’t become best (or even common) practise for security teams to utilise an isolated communications platform that is not tied to their organisation’s Active Directory (AD) infrastructure for its auth(z).

Remmina's Keyboard Layout Segfaults

Being South African 🇿🇦, it has always been natural for me to choose the ZA keyboard layout along with other ZA localisation options. However, for a number of years, my remmina experience has been haunted by a weird segfault issue related to my chosen keyboard layout, ZA.

Specialists and Generalists

Most definitions of generalist and specialist often include some reference to the medical profession because its a perfect fit.

The Sleeping Bug (re)Awakens

With close onto five years of an idling blog, it’s fair to say that I’d easily win the blog-version of IdleRPG if pitted against my friends like singe.

Tablet Take-up

I’ve fallen victim to the tablet PC craze and recently acquired a Sansui LifePad (ETAB) 700. In all honesty, it wasn’t completely my fault. I just happened to be casually browsing an Incredible Connection store that happened to be giving the on-sale device away for a measly R999.

Bitcoins and Geek Security = ?

Many tech-savvy geeks over-engineer the simplest of solutions, solely for extensibility. Moreover, security-minded geeks tend to be unusually paranoid and enforce (sometimes complex) security practices accordingly. Neither of these should be seen as faults, but rather as unique traits that us (as geeks) often share.

Enabling KDE Plasma Netbook Workspace on OpenSUSE 11.4

Since the arrival of the resource-crazed Unity 3D interface with 10.10, I knew my poor little Acer Aspire A110L netbook would never again taste the pleasure of another Ubuntu Linux installation … even though I did still have two options:

Mimicking Command Prompt with a Batch Script

Without a doubt, kiosk hacking assessments have the simplest objective… Gain command execution!