Jay Little - Previous Posts
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| Lenovo X1 Carbon: My New Ultrabook | 2015/3/12 3:18 PM |
So as some of you know, I tend to get a new laptop every 12 to 18 months. Over the years my preferences for laptops have changed drastically however and this has been reflected by my latest purchase, a third generation Lenovo X1 Carbon ultrabook. Long g
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| Knowing and Living With Your Boundaries | 2020/2/2 2:45 PM |
Whether we like to admit it or not, we all have boundaries. Part of growing older is being able to identify and knowing how to address our boundaries. Sometimes we find ways to transcend those boundaries and other times we discover, often as part of a p
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| Knick Knacks | 2009/2/24 6:36 AM |
Hmmmm... it's been awhile hasn't it? Well not only am I posting something to the site, I've also uploaded a slightly improved build of it along with adding a new default theme into the mix. I've been toying with the idea of a decent all black theme for
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| JPL Coding, Independence and Ethics Redux | 2014/9/29 8:59 PM |
As any of my readers know, ethics is a topic that is very near and dear to my heart when it comes to software development. When you run your own shop, there comes a time when your ethics are going to be tested. I thought I understood what that test woul
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| JPL Coding, Independence and Ethics | 2013/12/13 5:50 PM |
So as some of you undoubtedly know, last January I decided to start working for myself. Fast forward to today and I am closing in on the end of my first year as an independent software developer. It has been quite a ride. This past year has been most e
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| Jay Little the world's #1 stud got hitched. | 2004/4/12 10:20 PM |
Okay well maybe I wasn't rated number one - but I was pretty darn close - let me tell you. Anyway as most of you likely already know, Annette and I got married yesterday on April 11th, 2004. I've written a little piece on the wedding and provided some p
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| Jack of One Trade | 2017/11/21 1:33 PM |
I recently discovered that a virtual Windows server I was running had been hacked. I was being paid to run it as part of an arrangement with a long time client of mine. This server ran Windows Server 2008 R2 and though it was rarely used, it was configu
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| Into the depths of Linux | 2002/4/24 5:37 AM |
Well over the last few weeks I've had the opportunity to install and really attempt to get in depth with Linux. Though I've been using it on and off for years - I've never dedicated an entire machine to it. I must say its been quite an interesting advent
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| I'm getting married today - w00t! | 2004/4/11 4:14 PM |
Thats right. Today is my wedding day. Annette and I decided to get married earlier this week and thanks in a large part to my family we have a nice little ceremony planned for today. This is the best thing that has ever happened to me - so hopefully th
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| I am on the McNulty Spectrum | 2023/7/16 2:14 PM |
So over the last few weeks, I have been re-watching one of my favorite television shows of all time, The Wire. If you haven't seen it, you should probably rectify that oversight. That being what it is, I'm currently making my way through Season 3 and I
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| How Proprietary Tech Was Used to Summarily Execute Huawei | 2019/5/21 12:36 PM |
So for this month's blog post, I've decided to tackle a bit of tech drama that has been brewing for awhile. In case you didn't know, the Chinese telecom/tech company Huawei has been repeatedly accused by the US government of spying on their customers at
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| Honeymoons and all that stuff. | 2004/12/2 7:13 PM |
As some of you may know... Annette and I never actually got to go on a honeymoon when we got married. However one of our larger wedding presents was the promise of funding for such a venture should we ever find the time to do it. Well... okay maybe find
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| Here today, a forgotten Vista’ tomorrow | 2007/2/24 12:45 PM |
Yeah it’s been awhile. I’ve been busy.
I just finished spending a full month with the newly released Windows Vista and boy do I have quite a bit to say about it. To put a long story short, I’m now using Windows XP once again. As most of you imaginary r
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| Hasta La Vista Android | 2022/8/4 12:48 AM |
Well two and a half weeks ago I finally put on my big boy pants and took Annette down to the local Apple Store... and bought two iPhones. That decision came about because of years of accumulated frustration with Android, Google and Android OEMs.
If you w
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| Google Finally Reveals Its Endgame with Chrome | 2019/5/31 12:34 PM |
Earlier this year in January, Google publicly toyed with making some changes to its Extension WebRequest API that would effectively kill off reputable ad-blockers. This announcement was met with much sound and fury and Google appeared to fold after a few
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| Goodbye Windows 10 : Viva La Linux! | 2016/7/31 4:25 PM |
Yesterday was a red letter day for me. Two decades after using Linux for the first time, I have finally managed to fully convert all of daily driver devices to boot Linux. Any of you who know me, know that for years now I've been running Linux natively a
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| Goodbye Small Server, Hello 150 Watt Office | 2021/3/4 2:42 PM |
Anybody who has spent any amount of time reading my content over the past few years knows what my small server project is. For those of you not in the know, it was basically my attempt to stop using an old desktop as my home server and transition all of
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| Get Flash You Stupid Hippie | 2008/3/22 7:30 PM |
So I was doing a bit of surfing from my new server (see my previous post) and I happened to check out
South Park Studios
for an list of current South Park episodes, and I got this tasteful tidbit for my trouble:
Now that is some funny shit. It's good t
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| Gentoo Linux is da Bomb | 2002/10/27 11:48 PM |
Well I've finally concluded my latest round of Linux upgrades. I originally planned on migrating my Linux box to RH Linux 8 but apparent kernel related incompatibilities prevented me from doing so. So in my desperation I decided to give good ole Gentoo
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| GE and Pentium 4s | 2001/10/5 1:17 AM |
Yeppo - everything with GE worked out fine. My contract has been renewed (with the other Agency) and things are looking good in that respect.
I built a new Pentium 4 based box a few weeks ago. The specs of it are 1.7 ghz P4/640 MB RDRAM/70 gigs/Geforce3
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| Gaming | 2008/1/6 9:15 PM |
So of course I'm still gaming. Pretty decently too. Over the last year I managed to snag a Wii. The Wii is a pretty cool piece of equipment. However my mainline gaming interest has stayed with RPG gaming. Over the course of the last year I've played
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| Fun, Franchises and ReMastered Classic Games | 2021/10/6 2:35 PM |
So long time readers will remember that about four years back, I posted a diatribe entitled "Repeat after me: Games are supposed to be fun" that basically railed against the realization that a lot of the new games floating around weren't actuall
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| Finally... some Peace and Quiet | 2022/3/16 3:25 PM |
So ya'll have been following me on my hardware journey for awhile now and you have probably noticed that I keep focusing on different facets of the hardware experience. Well today I have some good news: I have finally found the exact combination of fact
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| Feline Diabetes for one please. Ching! Ching! | 2003/6/26 7:19 AM |
I recently became aware of a rather startling fact that most people are likely not aware of. Felines (Cats for the laymen fools among you) can get diabetes. How did I find this out you ask....
Well I came home from work about two weeks ago to find my fa
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| Fact: Every Tech Related Disaster Is Man-Made | 2018/3/17 2:29 PM |
Yesterday at work I was finishing off an extremely productive week. After spending the previous week on a spike, everything was really starting to come together for the feature I'm building. It was a good day. But then during a team demo somebody made
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