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Tuesday May 15th 2012

tyson — Tue, 15 May 2012 21:49:07 +0000

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Numbergram - three

tyson — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 18:03:39 +0000

Another puzzle from my puzzle-a-day calendar.
Numbergrams - Unscramble each anagram below to spell a single word. The first word is provided.
I+THREE = E I T H E R
CI+THREE =
LS+THREE =
AP+THREE =
NOC+THREE =
IGA+THREE =
GOT+THREE =

Word Sort

tyson — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 19:03:38 +0000

Word Sort
What do all the animals in the left column have in common that is different from all the animals in the right column?

Daily Puzzle January 6th 2012

tyson — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 05:01:29 +0000

This year for Christmas one of my gifts was a daily puzzle. I'm not all that great with remembering words so here is the puzzle for last Friday.

Puzzle Description: Write a letter in each bubble above to spell words that fit the clues. I've given you the first word (oven). This puzzle is based on the brain game Word Bubbles on Lumosity.com

Instead of bubbles I have underlined the empty positions.

ove n -- hot place for cooking

ove r t -- apparent, obvious

ove r d o -- put in more effort than necessary

Are any passwords safe?

tyson — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 17:31:26 +0000

Interesting article on how to recover or find forgotton passwords on your Windows / Mac computer.

I was very surprised to find out how easy it was to gain access to both Mac and Windows passwords. Seems that to really be secure these days is quite difficult as even encrypting your entire OS still does not always do the trick.

http://lifehacker.com/5854079/how-to-break-into-a-computer-and-prevent-it-from-happening-to-you

TysonKroeker.com back online!!!

tyson — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 15:45:57 +0000

After numerous months of being down due to hardware re-configuration and lack of time to re-configure the software to accomodate the hardware changes the site is back online.

Some valuable (and some potentially obvious) lessons learned are:

Last Words

tyson — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 09:08:08 +0000

As seen on SierraClub.org.

"Decades ago, a child chained a bicycle to a tree on Washington's Vashon Island. The tree, unperturbed, grew around the bike."

Word of the Day!

tyson — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 18:43:12 +0000

Word: usufruct

Sounds like: YOO-zoo-fruhkt

Definition: The right to use the property of another as long as it isn't damaged.

Birth of a Word

tyson — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 17:54:45 +0000

That is crazy! This guy collected 200TB of video and audio data which roughly equates to the first five years of his childs life at home.

He did some very interesting research on child development, specifcially how a child learns new words. This research also had some interesting implications in the media world as well, but I wont spoil that for you.

Enjoy the video! I know I did.

http://www.ted.com/talks/deb_roy_the_birth_of_a_word.html

Crazy htaccess hacking

tyson — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 22:43:37 +0000

Below are some linux commands to find files matching a specific format. In this case I had found a bunch of htaccess files on some webservers that were redirecting the 404 error pages to some hacker's php files that he had snuck in through a backdoor.

A colleague came up with the below to find the offending php files and remove them. This was made easier by the fact that they were all named using the same format of 12345.php or 123456.php.