Tracy Reed

2008-03-15

2008-03-02

Pilots, judgement, crosswind landings

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2008-02-23

Anyone need a computer job?

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The meaning of the word has changed a bit since then...

2008-01-14

2008-01-02

My RSS feeds

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Here's an XML export of all of the RSS feeds I read daily.

2007-12-01

2007-10-11

Dane-geld

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A very appropriate poem by Rudyard Kipling

2007-08-16

SCO loses, One Laptop Per Child, Open Letter to people wanting free computer tech support

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Quantum physics

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You can't communicate information faster than the speed of light, right?

2007-08-04

Whore, or long term relationship?

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Just take a guess what this one is about...

2007-06-28

2007-06-26

s3-backup.py uploads Bacula (backup software) file volumes to Amazon S3 for safe, cheap, easy off-site storage. I'm crazy about backups. This is part of my disaster recovery plan. "If it wasn't backed up it wasn't important." - Me

2007-06-12

Tao Te Ching: Unix Power Classic

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2007-04-30

When will they learn?

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Oh Nein Eff Nein

2007-02-19

Visitors from out of town

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It's not often that I get to entertain Internet friends from abroad...

2006-10-07

Yahoo/GMail/Hotmail etc. all suck and I renew my vow to never use Windows

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or perhaps this entry should be called "Why is there such a lack of professionalism in some places?" or "Why give up all control of your email?"

2006-09-17

Software Freedom Day

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How I spent my Saturday

2006-09-16

Free Software and the DoD

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Slashdot, Free Software, and the Department of Defense...

2006-09-02

San Diego Aviation History in my own back yard

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The former Hourglass Field is a block away from my place and served an important role in aviation training in San Diego, hosted drag races, caused a riot involving 3000 people on El Cajon Blvd, and is now almost completely forgotten as strip malls and housing take over the landscape.

2006-07-17

Eastern Medicine

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This is something I wrote around April 30th 2005. Just now getting around to posting it.

2006-06-30

BUGTRAQ is dead

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The BUGTRAQ mailing list ain't what it used to be.

If it wasn't backed up, it wasn't important!

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I think a lot of people misunderstand ReiserFS and filesystems in general.

2006-06-14

More about Vietnam

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Crab Mentality, cooperation, and pagodas on beautiful mountaintops

2006-05-27

My Time in Vietnam

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Since I spent most of the last year in Vietnam I guess I should write about it on my blog and post the pics. The pics can now all be found in my photo gallery. Here are some comments and observations on my time there.

2006-05-21

Functional Programming

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Lately, in addition to learning more about python I have been doing a lot of reading about functional programming (as opposed to imperative programming).

2006-04-26

FAA migrates to Linux, saves big money

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Federal Aviation Administration Saves $15 Million by Migrating to Red Hat Enterprise Linux; FAA Achieves 30 Percent More Operational Efficiency for 50 Percent Less Cost

Code Monkey

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An anthem for Computer Nerds

2006-03-02

Silence On The Wire

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Some months ago a fellow KPLUGger won the book "Silence On The Wire" at a raffle. The book publishers are very kind and send us books as long as we provide feedback in the form of a review. My friend wasn't so into security books so he gave it to me having noticed it was on my Amazon.com wishlist.