Archive for the 'Off Topic' Category
Full Disk Encryption on Solid State Drives
August 3rd, 2012I’m planning a system build and I want to use a SSD this time. TrueCrypt advises against using their crypto system with SSDs because SSDs use wear leveling routines to prolong the life of the memory modules. The problem is that, theoretically, the drive could write multiple versions of information, some of which could be […]
Curiosity’s Seven Minutes of Terror
June 23rd, 2012Via: JPL / YouTube: Team members share the challenges of Curiosity’s final minutes to landing on the surface of Mars.
Quick Note for Members of the Private Jet and Personal Submarine Class Who Read Cryptogon
June 13th, 2012Amazon will pay me commissions on your new laptop purchases: Apple MacBook Pro MC975LL/A 15.4-Inch Laptop with Retina Display, 2.3 GHz, 256 GB SSD Apple MacBook Pro MC976LL/A 15.4-Inch Laptop with Retina Display, 2.6 GHz, 512 GB SSD Thank you.
Maryland: Accused Murderer Ate Portions of Victim’s Heart and Brain
May 31st, 2012[???] Via: CBS News: A Morgan State University student who lived in the same home as a missing Joppatowne man now feared dead was charged with first-degree murder after parts of a human body were found inside the house and in a nearby dumpster. Now the suspect has admitted to eating portions of the man’s […]
Bug 33484: Printing Multiple Files from Windows Explorer at Once Makes LibreOffice Unusable
May 12th, 2012This is as Offtopic as it gets, but here goes. With LibreOffice installed, if you try to print multiple documents from the Windows Explorer, you have probably noticed that this behavior doesn’t work. Someone is reporting a similar issue on the Mac as well. The LibreOffice people currently don’t know what’s causing this, but if […]
Federal Inmate Keith Judd Receiving Sizable Percent of Vote in West Virginia Democratic Primary
May 9th, 2012Via: ABC News: Barack Obama was not the only Democrat on the ballot on Tuesday in West Virginia’s Democratic Presidential Primary. Keith Judd — also known as Inmate No. 11593-051 at the Federal Correctional Institution in Texarkana, Texas — was running against him. Judd, who is serving out a 17.5 year sentence for extortion, currently […]
Stellarium
May 6th, 2012We’ve been having some extremely clear nights recently and I wondered what some of the stars were called that I was looking at. I went looking for some sort of planetarium tool and found Stellarium, which is great! Just set your coordinates and the software will display the sky as it looks in your location. […]
Man Builds Beautiful (Outlaw) Treehouse in Canada
April 24th, 2012Great pictures and video at the link. Via: The HemLoft: The HemLoft is a self-funded secret creation that I built on crown land in Whistler, Canada. It hangs on a precipitous slope, in a towering stand of Hemlocks, about a five minute walk from the nearest road. When I started building it, I was just […]
New Humble Bundle Packed with Goods from Amanita Design
April 20th, 2012I like Amanita Design. An English dub version of Kooky, the children’s movie, is also part of this one. http://www.humblebundle.com/
Note to Cryptogon Readers Considering Purchase of Canon EOS 5D Mark III
March 25th, 2012Just a quick note to shooting pros and enthusiast photographers who are reading: You can throw a lot of support to Cryptogon if you buy your 5D3 through these links to Amazon. Canon EOS 5D Mark III (Body Only) Canon EOS 5D Mark III (with EF 24-105mm f/4 L IS USM) Thank you.
