Monthly Archives: September 2006

Unbelievable.

September 30, 2006 – 9:11 pm

Unbelievable. How do I put this in words as clearly as possible. If the U.S. government decides, for reasons of its own, that you are an “illegal enemy combatant,” i.e. that you are someone who “has engaged in hostilities or who has purposefully and materially supported hostilities against the United States,” they can detain you [...]

By Eric | Posted in Progressive Politics | Comments (0)

AppleSMU Error -110

September 12, 2006 – 11:46 am

Last month, my iMac G5 at work started rebooting randomly. (If didn’t have my Energy Saver system preferences set to restart automatically after a power failure, I suspect it would probably be shutting down instead of restarting.) Looking through system.log, I came across this: Aug 29 17:59:26 localhost kernel[0]: AppleSMU — shutdown cause = -110 [...]

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WiFi Freeloaders!

September 9, 2006 – 11:12 pm

I have a confession to make. I leave my wireless access point wide open. Anyone can join it. Yes, this goes against the common wisdom that everyone should use WEP to keep people from “stealing” your internet connection. But WEP is trivial to crack, so it only really provides a false sense of security. There’s [...]

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