Nintendo Switch NAT Type C Solution
2020-04-28 15:55:30
Recently I purchased a Nintendo Switch and wanted to be able to play online with friends. After running the Internet test and seeing that the Switch determined my network ...0 comments
Automatically Organize/Compile Blackboard C++ Files
2016-09-15 10:06:37
If you're like me and you teach C++ courses that use Blackboard as the file submission method you've probably wanted to smash your computer as you've graded the students' code. ...0 comments
Canon Pixma MX882 on CentOS Linux
2014-12-01 08:43:11
My sister didn't need her printer from college anymore and my parents wanted to use it on the spare laptop that I configured with CentOS 6.5. Normally, on Linux, ...0 comments
Deconstructing K.E.V.I.N.
2013-06-26 14:03:51
Ever since I started teaching I have always dreaded one aspect of lab classes, OS installation. It takes forever. You have to have the right CDs/DVDs, drivers, and ...1 comment
Hot-Add NIC in Ubuntu on VMWare
2013-06-07 10:23:06
Sometimes downtime is unacceptable, even if that downtime is only the 10 seconds it takes for a virtual server to reboot. I recently ran into the situation where I ...4 comments
Closing Ports on Linux
2013-04-10 12:05:59
Recently in my web server class I talked about things you can do to secure your machine. One of those things was detecting open ports and figuring out how ...2 comments
iOS6 Maps: The Media Is Wrong
2012-09-25 10:12:49
Since the introduction of iOS6 last week, many articles have been written (most by people who have never used iOS6) about what a complete #FAIL iOS6 Maps is. To ...5 comments
Roll Your Own Cloud With Tonido
2012-07-11 14:04:49
Have you ever been away from home and thought to yourself, "Crap! I wish I could get some files on my computer at home." If you're anything like ...0 comments
Ubuntu Sucks!
2012-05-24 07:59:14
:facepalm: I think that is the only appropriate way to start this post. Maybe it would have been better if I used the Picard image. Oh well, opportunity missed. ...5 comments
City Events Website
2012-05-01 07:27:58
In case you didn't see my Facebook post (http://on.fb.me/JyZ5Pj): I recently became frustrated while reading the May issue of Johnstown Magazine (being frustrated with the magazine itself is another issue, this ...5 comments
I'm With Woz!
2012-03-21 09:36:00
I was on the TWiT website downloading the newest episode of MacBreak Weekly when I decided to click on the Inside TWiT link to see if any new behind-the-scenes stuff ...1 comment
Journey To The Past
2012-03-19 09:55:07
On March 18th I went on a little scavenger hunt. I thought it would be nice to have pictures of the gravestones of the deceased members of my family ...8 comments
GetGo With The Program!
2012-03-14 09:36:43
How many of you get your gas from GetGo? All of you, right? Why wouldn't you? You shop for groceries at Giant Eagle and earn FuelPerks then ...2 comments
Slonkast Episode 44
2011-12-27 22:32:38
Name: Slonkast Episode 44 Artist: Kevin J. Slonka, Ryan Lantzy, Matt Hunt Album: Slonkast Year: 2011 Genre: Podcast Comments: Tech giant a sleaze bag, cell carriers record your every move, the law that could end ...0 comments
The Sing-Off: A Lesson In Jumping The Shark
2011-11-29 09:31:02
Over the past 10 years, those of us with an interest in music or simply an interest in reality television have been subject to many shows that promise the "next ...1 comment
Slonkast Episode 43
2011-10-13 19:40:06
Name: Slonkast Episode 43 Artist: Kevin J. Slonka, Ryan Lantzy Album: Slonkast Year: 2011 Genre: Podcast Comments: R.I.P. Steve Jobs (2011-10-13) Download slonkast-043.mp3 Talking Points Subscribe to Slonkast ...1 comment
Steve Jobs: 1955-2011
2011-10-05 19:59:18
https://www.apple.com/stevejobs/ ...0 comments
Slonkast Episode 42
2011-09-22 19:28:55
Name: Slonkast Episode 42 Artist: Kevin J. Slonka, Ryan Lantzy Album: Slonkast Year: 2011 Genre: Podcast Comments: Arrington leaves TechCrunch, are Mac users in for problems, Verizon might fix the phone industry, and much more! ...0 comments
1-Upping Calvin Klein
2011-09-17 23:00:00
Everyone knows the famous Calvin Klein ads with Kate Moss, whether it's for jeans or for perfume. I've always wanted to recreate these ads and recently I've been fortunate ...0 comments
Slonkast Episode 41
2011-08-30 21:32:26
Name: Slonkast Episode 41 Artist: Kevin J. Slonka, Ryan Lantzy Album: Slonkast Year: 2011 Genre: Podcast Comments: Steve Jobs resigns as Apple CEO, HP quits computers, an LTE iPhone?, and much more! (2011-08-30) Download slonkast-041.mp3 Talking ...0 comments
iPhone/GMail Multiple Account Issues
2011-08-10 07:33:02
For the longest time I've used my GMail account to manage all of my other email accounts. My email from kevinslonka.com, RMU, MAC, etc. all are connected to my ...0 comments
Slonkast Episode 40
2011-07-26 20:20:58
Name: Slonkast Episode 40 Artist: Kevin J. Slonka, Ryan Lantzy Album: Slonkast Year: 2011 Genre: Podcast Comments: Google+ turning into Facebook, never rent a laptop, is the iPhone 5 in sight, and much more! ...0 comments
Slonkast Episode 39
2011-07-19 20:39:50
Name: Slonkast Episode 39 Artist: Kevin J. Slonka, Ryan Lantzy Album: Slonkast Year: 2011 Genre: Podcast Comments: Anonymous de-nonymized and arrested, Google+ to rule them all, the Department of Justice gets your decrypted data, and ...0 comments
Slonkast Episode 38
2011-07-05 21:20:48
Name: Slonkast Episode 38 Artist: Kevin J. Slonka, Ryan Lantzy, Matt Hunt Album: Slonkast Year: 2011 Genre: Podcast Comments: Amazon disassociates California, WikiLeaks suing big credit, RIM gets schooled, and much more! (2011-07-05) Download slonkast-038.mp3 Talking Points Subscribe ...0 comments
Slonkast Episode 37
2011-06-28 20:20:29
Name: Slonkast Episode 37 Artist: Kevin J. Slonka, Ryan Lantzy Album: Slonkast Year: 2011 Genre: Podcast Comments: Hacked by a kindergartener, der Winklevii are back at it, LulzSec finally got enough lulz, and much more! ...0 comments
Slonkast Episode 36
2011-06-21 20:25:29
Name: Slonkast Episode 36 Artist: Kevin J. Slonka, Ryan Lantzy Album: Slonkast Year: 2011 Genre: Podcast Comments: Hacktivists declare open war, Windows 8 for kiosks, the highlights from WWDC, and much more! (2011-06-21) Download slonkast-036.mp3 Talking ...0 comments
Stop Stupid Tab Scrolling In Firefox 4
2011-06-15 12:28:32
For those of you who used to access about:config and change minTabWidth to 0 in Firefox 3 so that all tabs would be visible (albeit small) no matter how many ...0 comments
First Party Tools For Removing Windows Malware
2011-06-03 09:42:45
Hopefully, if you're a Windows user, you already know that Microsoft has a free, first-party antivirus tool that you can download and install to help protect your system. It ...1 comment
Slonkast Episode 35
2011-05-24 21:23:45
Name: Slonkast Episode 35 Artist: Kevin J. Slonka, Mike Link Album: Slonkast Year: 2011 Genre: Podcast Comments: Copy your CDs without going to jail, Microsoft still can't make a secure operating system, Apple malware ...0 comments
Slonkast Episode 34
2011-05-13 21:17:39
Name: Slonkast Episode 34 Artist: Kevin J. Slonka, Matt Hunt, Tim Tender Album: Slonkast Year: 2011 Genre: Podcast Comments: Apple delivers an OS via the app store, Sony still suffering from the recent hack, Google ...0 comments
Slonkast Episode 33
2011-05-03 20:45:53
Name: Slonkast Episode 33 Artist: Kevin J. Slonka, Ryan Lantzy Album: Slonkast Year: 2011 Genre: Podcast Comments: Yahoo is a little less tasty, Sony gets sued, Apple's creepin', and much more! (2011-05-03) Download slonkast-033.mp3 Talking Points Subscribe ...0 comments
Slonkast Episode 32
2011-04-26 21:05:04
Name: Slonkast Episode 32 Artist: Kevin J. Slonka, Ryan Lantzy Album: Slonkast Year: 2011 Genre: Podcast Comments: Amazon puts e-books into paper libraries, the Playstation Network hacked offline, is Apple the new big brother?, and ...0 comments
Slonkast Episode 31
2011-04-19 20:51:18
Name: Slonkast Episode 31 Artist: Kevin J. Slonka, Ryan Lantzy Album: Slonkast Year: 2011 Genre: Podcast Comments: Happy birthday, FTP, Microsoft takes even more of your money, RIM is near extinction, and much more! ...0 comments
Slonkast Episode 30
2011-04-12 21:04:47
Name: Slonkast Episode 30 Artist: Kevin J. Slonka, Ryan Lantzy Album: Slonkast Year: 2011 Genre: Podcast Comments: Kansas City gets GoogleNet, Facebook goes green, Amazon owns the cloud, and much more! (2011-04-12) Download slonkast-030.mp3 Talking Points Subscribe ...0 comments
Slonkast Episode 29
2011-03-29 21:05:41
Name: Slonkast Episode 29 Artist: Kevin J. Slonka, Ryan Lantzy Album: Slonkast Year: 2011 Genre: Podcast Comments: Microsoft tells foreign countries, "no security for you", under 13?, you're banned from Facebook, and 4G comes to ...0 comments
Slonkast Episode 28
2011-03-22 21:20:38
Name: Slonkast Episode 28 Artist: Kevin J. Slonka, Ryan Lantzy, Anthony Marguccio Album: Slonkast Year: 2011 Genre: Podcast Comments: Kevin Rose leaves Digg, Time Warner cuts streaming in half, Verizon announces the first real LTE ...0 comments
Adjust Volume From The Terminal
2011-03-18 21:46:50
Back when I used FreeBSD, it was a piece of cake to change the volume. I could just run something like: mixer vol 90 and the volume was set to 90%. ...0 comments
Slonkast Episode 27
2011-03-15 21:41:22
Name: Slonkast Episode 27 Artist: Kevin J. Slonka, Ryan Lantzy Album: Slonkast Year: 2011 Genre: Podcast Comments: Apple helps the people of Japan, wifi really can crash planes, the Zune has been deep sixed, and ...2 comments
Slonkast Episode 26
2011-03-08 22:36:04
Name: Slonkast Episode 26 Artist: Kevin J. Slonka, Ryan Lantzy, Jill Nadorlik Album: Slonkast Year: 2011 Genre: Podcast Comments: Dirty secrets of search, who uses QR codes?, the iPad 2, and much more. (2011-03-08) Download ...0 comments
Slonkast Episode 25
2011-03-01 22:54:05
Name: Slonkast Episode 25 Artist: Kevin J. Slonka, Ryan Lantzy Album: Slonkast Year: 2011 Genre: Podcast Comments: The Senate calls out the House, GeoHot in more hot water, a new iPad, and much more! ...0 comments
Slonkast Episode 24
2011-02-22 22:55:18
Name: Slonkast Episode 24 Artist: Kevin J. Slonka, Ryan Lantzy, Matt Hunt Album: Slonkast Year: 2011 Genre: Podcast Comments: I, for one, welcome our new computer overlords, my Playstation phone can make calls, Verizon can't ...0 comments
Slonkast Episode 23
2011-02-15 21:55:06
Name: Slonkast Episode 23 Artist: Kevin J. Slonka, Ryan Lantzy Album: Slonkast Year: 2011 Genre: Podcast Comments: Algeria shuts off the Internet, Sony gives away the keys to the kingdom, $1400 to the Smurfs, and ...0 comments
Slonkast Episode 22
2011-02-08 22:27:38
Name: Slonkast Episode 22 Artist: Kevin J. Slonka, Ryan Lantzy Album: Slonkast Year: 2011 Genre: Podcast Comments: Bing stealing Google's results, what is internet?, the white iPhone, and much more. (2011-02-08) Download slonkast-022.mp3 Talking Points Subscribe to ...2 comments
Slonkast Episode 21
2011-02-01 22:47:58
Name: Slonkast Episode 21 Artist: Kevin J. Slonka, Ryan Lantzy, Matt Hunt Album: Slonkast Year: 2011 Genre: Podcast Comments: Egypt goes dark, Sony backdoors your PS3, Apple tightens the screws, and much more. (2011-02-01) Download ...0 comments
Slonkast Episode 20
2011-01-21 21:47:54
Name: Slonkast Episode 20 Artist: Kevin J. Slonka, Ryan Lantzy, Tim Tender Album: Slonkast Year: 2011 Genre: Podcast Comments: Facebook telling spammers where you live, GeoHot in hot water, Motorola blowing up your phone, and ...0 comments
Slonkast Episode 19
2011-01-11 22:38:43
Name: Slonkast Episode 19 Artist: Kevin J. Slonka, Ryan Lantzy Album: Slonkast Year: 2011 Genre: Podcast Comments: Ford predicting the future, your TV hacking your network, Verizon's big announcement, and much more! (2011-01-11) Download slonkast-019.mp3 Talking Points Subscribe ...0 comments
R.I.P. Tonic Grille 2010-2010
2010-11-06 20:47:10
Are we bad people? One would assume that if you were present for the recent Young Professionals of the Alleghenies (YPA) happy hour at the Tonic Grille in the ...5 comments
Slonkast Episode 18
2010-11-03 20:41:32
Name: Slonkast Episode 18 Artist: Kevin J. Slonka, Ryan Lantzy Album: Slonkast Year: 2010 Genre: Podcast Comments: Geocities lives on, wireless HDMI, Linux viruses, is MySpace relevant, the Blackberry Playbook, and much more! (2010-11-03) Download ...0 comments
Slonkast Episode 17
2010-10-27 21:07:36
Name: Slonkast Episode 17 Artist: Kevin J. Slonka, Ryan Lantzy Album: Slonkast Year: 2010 Genre: Podcast Comments: Apple making some questionable moves, Digg apologizes for sucking, anyone can hack, TV networks are blocking progress, and ...0 comments
Slonkast Episode 16
2010-10-13 20:19:19
Name: Slonkast Episode 16 Artist: Kevin J. Slonka, Ryan Lantzy Album: Slonkast Year: 2010 Genre: Podcast Comments: Google kills GOOG-411, Facebook lets friends sign you up for groups, HDCP is cracked, the Windows Phone 7 ...0 comments
Slonkast Episode 15
2010-09-28 21:19:14
Name: Slonkast Episode 15 Artist: Kevin J. Slonka, Ryan Lantzy, Adam Altemus Album: Slonkast Year: 2010 Genre: Podcast Comments: Kevin, Ryan, and Adam talk about Google Me, Blockbuster, the Facebook outage, and two big Twitter ...4 comments
Slonkast Episode 14
2010-08-19 22:52:16
Name: Slonkast Episode 14 Artist: Kevin J. Slonka, Ryan Lantzy Album: Slonkast Year: 2010 Genre: Podcast Comments: Kevin and Ryan talk about more ways to hack vehicles, some good and bad with Facebook, jailbreaking iPhones, ...1 comment
Foursquare Makes Me Hate Twitter
2010-08-19 10:41:32
Anyone who follows me on Twitter has probably been annoyed at some point by my constant, seemingly mindless updating or my incessant ranting. Usually the remark is something like, ...0 comments
Slonkast Episode 13
2010-08-09 21:10:48
Name: Slonkast Episode 13 Artist: Kevin J. Slonka, Ryan Lantzy Album: Slonkast Year: 2010 Genre: Podcast Comments: Kevin and Ryan talk about how to stalk someone, a possible Google/Verizon debacle, how to make your own ...0 comments
Slonkast Episode 12
2010-08-02 20:40:24
Name: Slonkast Episode 12 Artist: Kevin J. Slonka, Ryan Lantzy Album: Slonkast Year: 2010 Genre: Podcast Comments: Kevin and Ryan talk about numerous cool and scary things out of the Black Hat and Defcon conferences, ...0 comments
Slonkast Episode 11
2010-07-26 20:59:27
Name: Slonkast Episode 11 Artist: Kevin J. Slonka, Ryan Lantzy, Ed Zahurak Album: Slonkast Year: 2010 Genre: Podcast Comments: Kevin, Ryan, and Ed talk about Google taking over the world, Net Neutrality and broadband requirements, ...0 comments
Slonkast Episode 10
2010-07-19 21:35:07
Name: Slonkast Episode 10 Artist: Kevin J. Slonka, Ryan Lantzy Album: Slonkast Year: 2010 Genre: Podcast Comments: Kevin and Ryan talk about social networking, Microsoft's operating systems, and all areas of mobile phones including the ...0 comments
Slonkast Episode 9
2010-07-12 21:37:14
Name: Slonkast Episode 9 Artist: Kevin J. Slonka, Ryan Lantzy, Jeff Betts Album: Slonkast Year: 2010 Genre: Podcast Comments: Kevin, Ryan, and Jeff talk about Twitter and Facebook problems, security issues for many large corporations, ...0 comments
Slonkast Episode 8
2010-07-06 07:53:35
Name: Slonkast Episode 8 Artist: Kevin J. Slonka Album: Slonkast Year: 2010 Genre: Podcast Comments: Kevin talks about imperialism, mobile phones, the iPhone 4 debacle (or lack thereof), and much more. (2010-07-05) Download slonkast-008.mp3 Talking Points Subscribe ...2 comments
Podcast Tracking: Improved
2010-06-29 13:57:18
Last week I showed you a quick and dirty way to make a podcast downloader script that will also track the number of downloads. This week I have a ...0 comments
Track Podcast Downloads Using PHP And Mod_Rewrite
2010-06-24 20:09:18
I recently ran into a problem that I suspect most new podcasters run into. You publish your own podcast but soon find out that you have no way to ...3 comments
Slonkast Episode 7
2010-06-22 21:46:32
Name: Slonkast Episode 7 Artist: Kevin J. Slonka, Ryan Lantzy Album: Slonkast Year: 2010 Genre: Podcast Comments: Kevin and Ryan talk about viruses, secure online usage, mobile operating systems, and more. (2010-06-22) Download slonkast-007.mp3 Subscribe to ...0 comments
Slonkast Episode 6
2010-06-09 06:42:17
Name: Slonkast Episode 6 Artist: Kevin J. Slonka, Ryan Lantzy, Frank Cameron Album: Slonkast Year: 2010 Genre: Podcast Comments: Kevin, Ryan, and Frank talk about Google, Project Natal, Adobe vulnerabilities, D8, RIM, and WWDC. ...0 comments
Responsible Disclosure: Preventing A Possible Disaster
2010-06-03 11:59:02
Responsible disclosure, a method of vulnerability disclosure where all stakeholders agree to a certain window in which the vulnerability will be fixed before the details are revealed to the public. ...3 comments
Slonkast Episode 5
2010-05-31 20:48:36
Name: Slonkast Episode 5 Artist: Kevin J. Slonka, Ryan Lantzy Album: Slonkast Year: 2010 Genre: Podcast Comments: Kevin and Ryan talk about internet in your car, 3D movies, the AT&T problems, Facebook privacy issues, and ...0 comments
This Ain’t Your Grandma’s 3D
2010-05-30 14:26:35
We all remember it; coming home from the grocery store, dumping out the cereal box, and searching for the red and blue 3D glasses so that we can see the ...2 comments
My Car Needs Internet
2010-05-25 10:34:39
Can you imagine it? Your vehicle having Internet access. It's almost as if we should be expecting our car to say, "I'm sorry, Kevin, I cannot do that." ...0 comments
Reset A Forgotten Windows Password
2010-05-17 19:58:22
Have you ever had a Windows XP machine where you forgot your password and didn't know the password for the administrator account? Or maybe you have a newer Vista ...0 comments
Automate DPI Altering With ImageMagick
2010-03-22 20:57:05
One of the most mundane tasks I have to perform after a photo shoot is editing the dots per inch (DPI) of the almost-finished photos so that they print at ...2 comments
Fix A Corrupt Windows Registry With Linux
2010-02-26 21:45:40
During this past week I was called upon by two different people to help with their computer problem. The first problem was a Blue Screen Of Death (BSOD) and ...0 comments
Breast Cancer Blunder of 2010
2010-01-08 10:02:15
UDPATE: I took my own advice and made the web page to help this effort: http://bit.ly/6CQl7d For the past couple days most people have noticed the barrage of single word ...2 comments
Slonkast Episode 4
2009-11-16 20:39:30
Name: Slonkast Episode 4 Artist: Kevin J. Slonka Album: Slonkast Year: 2009 Genre: Podcast Comments: Kevin talks about the recent Vox Nova concert, Kaspersky AV for Mac, Google Wave and Voice, SquareSpace, and a book ...0 comments
Smarter Publishing? Maybe Too Smart...
2009-11-12 13:33:01
My website hosting contract is coming to an end within the next month. I've heard many, many rave reviews about SquareSpace and decided that I should check it out ...0 comments
Use Google Voice As Your Voicemail Service
2009-10-08 12:20:30
UPDATE: Google Voice has added the Voicemail ability natively. My directions at the end of this article are no longer necessary. Google Voice is a great service. In its ...0 comments
Frozen Mac? Maybe Not Completely...
2009-09-07 18:50:43
So it just happened to me. I copied some photos/movies from a Memory Stick onto my computer and decided to look at them using Preview. I made it ...0 comments
My Encounter With A CraigsList Scammer
2009-08-28 22:00:08
It was a dark and dreary day in Johnstown. I sit in my cubicle, soaking wet from my recent trek to the doctor's office. I notice that my ...9 comments
Lenses For Sale
2009-07-20 19:21:53
So I'm looking to buy two new lenses and because of that I don't need the three that I currently have. So, here is a list of the lenses ...0 comments
Kevin Slonka Here For Alice.com
2009-07-03 14:28:52
In true Billy Mays style, at least for the intro, I do a pseudo-pitch for Alice.com. I won't say too much about the service, since most of that is ...1 comment
Sync iPhone Calendar With Google Calendar
2009-06-19 19:15:57
This is something iPhone users have clamored for since the beginning. Unless you used the Calendar app on your Mac, you weren't getting any appointments in the Calendar app ...0 comments
AT&T Suffers Nation-wide Network Outage
2009-06-18 10:15:39
At approximately 4AM EST, AT&T's cellular network suffered a major outage; their data networks stopped working. Customers were left with no internet access from their mobile devices through either ...0 comments
Make That Tree Look Taller
2009-06-10 19:47:25
So Gillette has released some videos to help guys learn how to shave various parts of their bodies, from head, to armpits, to the groin. Yup, you read that ...1 comment
Slonkast Episode 3
2009-05-29 15:23:34
Name: Slonkast Episode 3 Artist: Kevin J. Slonka Album: Slonkast Year: 2009 Genre: Podcast Comments: Kevin welcomes Isabella Rose Marguccio to the world, talks about the Showcase for Commerce, Polkafest, his birthday and vacation to ...0 comments
Slonkast Episode 2
2009-05-07 20:33:13
Name: Slonkast Episode 2 Artist: Kevin J. Slonka Album: Slonkast Year: 2009 Genre: Podcast Comments: Kevin talks about the RMU graduation, the FBI, KFC, some television, and the iPhone 3.0. (2009-05-07) Download slonkast-002.mp3 Subscribe to Slonkast ...0 comments
Podslurping
2009-04-07 20:09:56
During the second half of the Spring 2009 semester, I am taking a class on Information Security Assurance and Auditing. We are required to complete a final project, given ...5 comments
Installing hping3 On OSX
2009-03-24 22:15:18
Most people know that OSX is just BSD with a pretty interface. Technically... I say that because you can't just take normal BSD packages and expect them to ...6 comments
Restore iTunesHelper to OSX Login Items
2009-03-19 10:15:52
Maybe some of you, like me, get a little click happy at times. I was today when I was extremely frustrated that Skype decided to open every time I ...4 comments
/etc/hosts Replacement In OSX
2009-03-17 09:26:44
On all *nix hosts you can add an entry to the /etc/hosts file so that you don't have to remember an IP address, can force your machine to always hit ...0 comments
Create an ISO from a CD on a Mac
2009-03-11 10:24:30
Sometimes Macs are too user friendly. Sure, as soon as you put in a CD it automounts, puts an icon on your desktop, and you can immediately start accessing ...0 comments
I'm Famous... At Least On The Internet
2009-01-29 00:05:15
One of my regular shows from Revision3, Tekzilla, takes video questions from viewers and answers them on the show. I recently sent in a video question asking whether ethernet ...12 comments
Alex Albrecht Explains Cell Manufacturers' Reaction To Apple
2009-01-21 22:58:48
On this week's Diggnation (which actually was a live show in LA from last week), Alex Albrecht explains how cell manufacturers must have felt when Apple came on the scene ...0 comments
Adding "Tabs" To Framed Web Applications
2009-01-19 11:56:14
If web developers have one major gripe (other than IE not conforming to standards) it has to be when they are tasked to create fat-client functionality in a web application. ...0 comments
Weather Integration For Google Calendar
2009-01-19 09:08:13
Who out there uses Google Calendar? Not you? Are you an idiot? Well, if you don't use Google Calendar you should probably stop reading. For those ...0 comments
Slonkast Episode 1
2009-01-14 20:42:17
Name: Slonkast Episode 1 Artist: Kevin J. Slonka Album: Slonkast Year: 2009 Genre: Podcast Comments: Kevin discusses his studio, HDDVD vs. Blu-Ray, the PS3, and Twitter. (2009-01-10) Download slonkast-001.mp3 Subscribe to Slonkast ...6 comments
Indestructible Film Very Destructible
2009-01-05 16:31:15
For more than a year, I have used an Invisible Shield from Zagg. My first Shield was for my Motorola Razr2. I keep my cell phone in my ...11 comments
Slonkast Episode 0
2009-01-04 01:05:19
Name: Slonkast Episode 0 Artist: Kevin J. Slonka Album: Slonkast Year: 2009 Genre: Podcast Comments: Kevin talks iPhone on the pilot episode of the Slonkast. (2009-01-03) Download slonkast-000.mp3 Subscribe to Slonkast ...8 comments
The Impossible: It's What I Do
2008-12-19 20:24:26
For a couple of days this week, I've been doing some consulting work at a local manufacturing company, owned by a member of my church. The initial work was ...1 comment
Add TTYs in Fedora 9+, Plus More!
2008-12-10 17:51:17
As extra credit in my Intro to Linux class, I gave a problem that used to be simple but is now (since Fedora 9) slightly more difficult. As an ...8 comments
Evolution: I'm Not So Sure
2008-11-25 09:46:24
Every intelligent Christian knows that the creation stories in the Bible were just that; stories. The world probably wasn't created in seven days. Instead, Christian scholars accept a ...8 comments
iPhone Earbuds: A New Way To Use Your Phone
2008-11-12 21:24:15
I've had the iPhone for a couple of months now, but refused to use it as an iPod. A few weeks ago I decided to sync some music to ...0 comments
Keeping Your Audience Involved
2008-10-10 12:59:31
How involved do you get your audience? That's a question on the mind of every TV executive. They know they need to get you involved while you're watching ...2 comments
Parents' 25th Anniversary
2008-10-06 10:24:03
This past Wednesday, October 1, was my parents' 25th anniversary. I wanted to send them on a vacation as a surprise, but realized that they needed to know so ...0 comments
Using An Alternate Window Manager With GDM
2008-09-26 21:34:03
Recently I found myself needing to run a less resource intensive window manager on a linux host. The host ran Fedora 9, used GDM, and had Gnome as the ...2 comments
Symbolic And Hard Links Explained
2008-09-18 21:18:14
As I was covering links in the fourth week of my Intro to Linux course, I realized that this was a pretty important topic that should be written down on ...5 comments
Install Dell Wireless Drivers/Utility On HP Hardware
2008-09-17 21:32:24
You may be asking yourself what kind of crack I'm on. Well, it's the kind that makes me want to install Dell software on HP hardware. But seriously, ...1 comment
iPhone 2.1 Firmware - Yay Or Nay?
2008-09-16 07:42:07
Apple realized their mistakes with the previous versions of the firmware. This time, we actually got Steve Jobs's personal promise that things would work. I just read an ...0 comments
Is Chrome The Next Step To GooOS?
2008-09-12 14:10:15
Many people have wondered why in the world Google would release a web browser. Everything Google does has been web based (the exceptions are cases where they bought other ...1 comment
Google Chrome: A Poor Attempt
2008-09-03 09:39:45
Hot on the heels of my IE8 review, here is my Google Chrome review. I would have had a review up yesterday, when it was released, but since Google ...10 comments
IE8 Beta 2 Review
2008-09-02 21:00:57
The day the second beta of IE8 was released I decided I was going to give it a go. IE has been a completely worthless browser ever since hackers ...0 comments
Launch Of The New United Way Website
2008-08-28 12:49:59
For the past month or so myself and our crack-team of engineers (Garrett, Adam, and Diane) have been working on the new website for the United Way of the Laurel ...1 comment
Fellowship Of The iPhone
2008-08-12 08:55:00
Journey to Mordor My iPhone experience started yesterday around 4:00PM when I left work and headed to the mall. Because I hate people, I parked right outside of the restaurants ...2 comments
Open Invitation To Internet Lurkers
2008-08-04 20:38:51
There is an ever-growing group... collection... cult, if I may, of parasites on the Internet. People who consume until they can consume no more, but hardly ever, if at ...1 comment
Web 2.1337 #5 - The Dark Knight
2008-08-04 17:08:00
I have seen The Dark Knight three times now. Each time I pick up more and more. For instance, the second time I went I caught how the ...0 comments
BREAKING: Dishwasher Earns Black Belt In Karate
2008-08-02 14:24:32
Rueters: In an unprecedented event, the Whirlpool Quiet Power 980 has become the first dishwasher in the history of the world, nay, the universe, to earn a black belt in ...3 comments
Installing camE: A Tutorial On Compiling From Source
2008-08-01 12:29:12
I recently ran out of space on my main desktop with an 80GB drive. So I bought a 500GB drive to replace it. Instead of dd'ing the old ...0 comments
Kevin Slonka For President In 2008
2008-07-25 09:52:46
I made the Channel 3 News. Make sure you all vote for me! ...0 comments
Villain for Batman 3
2008-07-21 19:43:11
The Dark Knight is the best movie ever made, period. Much talk has been done about the villain in the next movie. It's pretty well known that the ...2 comments
Web 2.1337 #4 - Road Cones
2008-07-17 15:34:39
Another idea from Garrett. Have things in your everyday life ever reminded you of something in your technological life? For Garrett, that happens more often than not. ...0 comments
Finally Framed
2008-07-15 19:09:16
I went to Michael's a couple of days ago and bought a frame for my Digg shirt signed by Kevin Rose. I, however, needed a pseudo-matting because the cardboard ...1 comment
Test 2 With The DigiTech Vocalist Live 4
2008-07-15 08:56:14
I decided to pick two more songs and record them without actually learning them ;) The first is a song by Allison Krauss and Union Station. Actually, I ...2 comments
Web 2.1337 #3 - The Walkway
2008-07-14 18:09:45
Thanks to my co-worker, Garrett, for hurting himself and giving me the idea for this comic. ...0 comments
No Soup (3G) For You (Me)
2008-07-11 20:17:12
I'm probably gonna get a new iPhone. Not right now, I don't want to wait for hours on end just to activate the thing. I'll wait until all ...0 comments
4th of July Pictures
2008-07-11 19:41:14
The title really says it all. I just got around to developing and resizing the pictures I took of the fireworks on the 4th and our cookout on the ...4 comments
Toshiba Not Giving Up On HD-DVD?
2008-07-10 10:38:22
Everyone knows that I picked the better technology in the middle of the HD war, HD-DVD. It's too bad that Sony is richer than Toshiba and bought out EVERY ...0 comments
Digitech Vocalist Live 4 Test Run
2008-06-25 20:13:36
My new toy arrived today! The Digitech Vocalist Live 4. I couldn't wait to try it out, and I didn't want to read the manual, so I just ...5 comments
Simple XML End-Tag Detection
2008-06-24 14:45:33
Say you're working with an XML or RDF document and your program keeps spitting out errors saying that some tags aren't closed, etc. What do you do if you ...0 comments
Web 2.1337 #2 - Baby Names By Science
2008-06-20 20:08:37
We were sitting at lunch talking about the places where we grew up. Jon mentioned how, growing up where he did, everyone knew everyone and what they were doing ...0 comments
Web 2.1337 #1 - Scripting Too Long
2008-06-19 15:58:01
Ever have one of those days when you do nothing but stare at code, write code, then stare at it some more? Well I had one of those days. ...0 comments
Mount LVM Volume from Live CD
2008-06-11 21:01:03
If you know anything about anything, you know that Live CDs are great for rescuing data from dying computers. Normally, this involves mounting a hard drive with a single ...0 comments
Autographed Digg T-Shirt
2008-06-09 19:51:48
You have no idea how excited I am. Today, in the mail, I received my gift for being a founding member of Revision3. What is the gift, you ...2 comments
It's Official, I'm Smarter Than You
2008-06-06 15:51:55
Today I received my diploma in the mail. Now the expensive part... Buying a nice double frame for the diploma and my Alpha Iota Mu honors certificate. ...4 comments
Comments From VIM, Nevermore!
2008-05-28 10:14:04
Has anyone else noticed how the newer versions of VIM attempt to be smart? Yeah, they think that just because you typed a comment on one line that you ...38 comments
Use the Amazon MP3 Downloader on Fedora 9
2008-05-21 13:22:33
If you're like me, you've probably upgraded your Fedora 8 host to Fedora 9 only to find that half of the stuff you use doesn't work anymore. I found ...12 comments
Mario Kart Double Agent
2008-05-13 08:18:37
Last night Kelli and Izeke came over to play the Wii. After sucking horribly at Mario Galaxy they decided to race in Mario Kart. After also sucking horribly ...4 comments
Dear Mario Kart, STOP CHEATING!
2008-05-03 22:42:24
I've had Mario Kart for the Wii since last Monday, though I have only played it 2 days of the 6. It took a couple races to get used ...4 comments
Awesome Hidden Windows Feature
2008-04-28 13:17:59
And by awesome, I mean totally _not_ awesome. A co-worker just called me over to his desk to check out some odd behavior. He had just extracted a ...2 comments
Boo you BlueFish!
2008-04-18 12:09:55
I don't know either Ruby or Java at the moment, but I need to learn both. I'll be having to design a web application in jRuby on Rails so ...4 comments
Laurie's First Communion
2008-04-15 21:32:20
This past weekend was my cousin's (actually, first cousin's once removed) first communion. So my family and I traveled to York for the mass and party. I don't ...0 comments
Genuises Working at Wendy's
2008-04-14 15:53:44
This past weekend, I was in York for my cousin's first communion. One of the nights, we stopped at Wendy's for some food. As I was waiting for ...1 comment
How many RAM slots do I have?
2008-04-10 12:20:37
Sure, Windows can tell you the total amount of RAM in your computer, but sometimes you need to know how many slots you have and how many are used. ...7 comments
Windows Server 2008 Core: Networking
2008-04-09 21:32:04
In my last article on 2008, I showed some basic operations that you pretty much need to know to work with 2008 Core. In this article, I get a ...0 comments
Windows Server 2008 Install/First Impressions
2008-03-25 15:15:01
So I downloaded the Windows Server 2008 CD from Microsoft (which I'm surprised they let people do). I installed it under VMWare on my Fedora 7 laptop and started ...0 comments
The Brightness of 1000 Suns
2008-02-28 10:46:00
As every photographer knows, properly lighting your subject is, perhaps, the most important part of photography. Without the proper amount of light, you get shadows, dark spots, bright spots, ...5 comments
The Slippery Slope of IT
2008-02-25 21:33:34
What is the role of a person in the IT field? Let me further define "the IT field." When I say "the IT field," I am speaking of ...4 comments
Nike Acquisition
2008-02-14 22:44:16
No, I didn't buy Nike. Though, that would be pretty awesome. What actually happened was that I bought new shoes. I've had my current pair of Nike ...1 comment
What Am I Reading?
2008-02-03 16:31:58
Thanks to Veronica Belmont for introducing me to Google Reader, you can now see all of the articles that I read on a daily basis. I use Netvibes as my browser's ...0 comments
New Video Card Screws Up OpenGL
2008-01-31 14:32:52
My Dell E510 came with an ATI X600 video card, which was not the greatest. It had 128MB of RAM, but the killer was the slow clock speed and ...0 comments
Where Is The Church Camp?
2008-01-28 23:21:34
I was in Wendy's today and to the left of the register was this pamphlet holding device that had some... pamphlets in it. The first thing that jumped out ...0 comments
Debug the TWM Menu in RHEL4
2008-01-24 12:49:36
So your window manager of choice is TWM because of it's slimness and configurability. But after painstaking hour^H^H^H^Hminutes editing your .twmrc to add some applications to the menu you ...0 comments
American Gladiators Ringtone
2008-01-22 15:27:38
I've been watching the new American Gladiators and it sucks. The more I watch, the more I want to stop. The original one was so much better. ...0 comments
The Lion King: A Critique
2008-01-19 23:53:10
Last night I saw The Lion King in Pittsburgh. It was a great show, but it had a few things that made me wonder, "why?" Too much choreography while singing My ...0 comments
He's Thirsty!
2008-01-11 13:11:39
Rhuel and I went to Wendy's today for lunch. This guy in front of us ordered, went to the condiment station, and started getting stuff. I didn't think ...0 comments
Need More LiveCD Space?
2008-01-09 15:45:40
Most of you have read the article on how to create a custom Fedora LiveCD. Well, by default, Revisor creates the "filesystem" with a 3GB limit (2.8GB usable). ...7 comments
HP ScanJet G3010 in Fedora 7
2008-01-03 21:48:45
For the last bit of photography I did for Crown, I received a $100 Best Buy gift card. I needed a scanner for a long time, so I decided ...2 comments
Buy Your Music From Amazon
2008-01-02 17:25:09
You heard me right, Amazon sells music... as in MP3s. As of a week ago, Amazon now has 3 of the 4 major music labels in it's catalog. ...0 comments
My new swag!
2007-12-31 20:37:00
As I was watching the last episode of DL.TV for 2007, the guys broke out some old ZDTV stuff. Roger was wearing a ZDTV jacket and a The Screen ...0 comments
My Farewell to CTC
2007-12-29 21:57:18
Last month marked one year since I left CTC. I recently read TechTV Employee Number One, and realized that Russ's reasons for leaving TechTV were somewhat similar to my ...0 comments
OfficeCam, Twitter, and Facebook
2007-12-28 01:41:45
After getting my oak filing cabinet and having to put the stupid thing together, I decided to unpack some of the boxes I had in my office and put things ...0 comments
Wow! Bus Fare Is Cheap!
2007-12-12 14:21:36
I was reading an article on the writer's strike and who was there picketing with them. An article over at the LAist had a lot of pictures, one of ...0 comments
Nostalgic Christmas Minishows
2007-12-09 23:32:55
When I was little, I remember my mom being excited when Suzy Snowflake came on TV. That, along with Frosty the Snowman and Hardrock, Cocoa, and Joe were little ...2 comments
The Internet Made Us Dumb
2007-12-06 14:26:45
A long time ago in a galaxy so much like our own that it is our own, children actually learned. "Learned what?" you might ask. Anything... anything at ...1 comment
Woohoo! Buzz Out Loud 613
2007-11-30 10:25:04
Ok, so I get too excited when my comments make it into the podcasts I listen to. But at 37:20 of Buzz Out Loud 613 they read my email ...0 comments
WAV conversion with Perl
2007-11-28 11:29:26
Most linux users know that if they want to make an audio cd from their mp3 collection it can be somewhat troublesome. Due to the licensing cost involved with ...6 comments
You Stay Classy, San Diego
2007-11-20 09:33:50
Anyone who knows me knows that I love the movie "Anchorman." One of Ron Burgandy's famous signoffs is, "You stay classy, San Diego." I was watching this week's ...0 comments
Vox Nova Reunion
2007-11-16 00:40:27
It has been 10 years since the inception of Vox Nova at Mount Aloysius. The director, Nancy, decided (with a nudge from a fellow Novite, Stell) that it was ...1 comment
Scarehouse
2007-11-12 23:07:19
The wind howled as if Old Man Winter was right outside the front door. The trees shook, leaves disconnecting themselves and flying into neighboring yards. They pass in ...1 comment
Reprogram Mazda Tribute Fob
2007-11-10 11:04:29
So you all know that my vehicle's electronics half died. That was the result of the BCM going bad. That, along with the throttle body (which was giving ...0 comments
Chef Slonkak
2007-11-07 22:44:07
Let me begin by saying I have never cooked a meal in my life. I've helped my parents by doing stuff on the grill and other little things, but ...1 comment
What is going on?
2007-11-07 11:35:04
Ok, so I had church practice yesterevening. When I finished, from inside the church, I hit the button on my remote starter so my car would be running when ...0 comments
East Meets West 91... Featuring Me!
2007-11-02 20:16:07
Ok, so my voice isn't in the podcast, but my words are. East Meets West is a podcast done by Tom Merritt (from Buzz Out Loud) and Roger Chang ...0 comments
Quailman!
2007-10-31 21:42:32
That's right. All you people around my age probably remember the Nickelodeon show "Doug"... Well, for Halloween I was his alter-superhero-ego, Quailman. And you know what the ...1 comment
<voice type="rudolph">I'm cute!</voice>
2007-10-29 17:31:15
I went to Boscov's to get some things; some Blistex, a draft dodger (I didn't know that's what they're called either), and some kitchen sink mats. I go to ...0 comments
Move-in: T -1 Day
2007-10-27 16:35:59
Well my dad, Uncle Dave, and myself moved in a lot of my stuff today. So I decided to take some pictures of how everything was coming along. ...0 comments
Create the Über-LiveCD
2007-10-19 13:13:59
So yesterday was the day. Finally the extremely custom LiveCD was in a perfect working condition. Now, if you're expecting this CD to cure cancer or do your ...10 comments
I Wasn't Painting ;)
2007-10-14 16:16:11
I finally finished painting today. After finishing the last two ceilings I put together both of my computer desks so I have a big U-shaped desk. It turned ...1 comment
Stupid Literalness
2007-10-11 11:49:10
I've stepped into something new... trying to create a very custom live cd. There are tools, specifically Revisor, that let you create a custom Fedora live cd. While ...0 comments
C Programming 101
2007-10-08 20:42:30
So you're in your intro to programming course, writing in C, and you're given an assignment that will actually make you think. You need to write a program that ...1 comment
More House Pictures
2007-09-30 21:37:01
Now that all of the new furniture is in, and I got some stuff for the dining room, I took some more pictures. I also got some of the ...3 comments
Chuck: My New Favorite Show?
2007-09-26 22:02:02
Ever since the second season of Alias, that was my favorite show. Why not the first season? Before episode 1 when I first saw the preview of a ...0 comments
Slonka Family Pedigree
2007-09-22 22:44:28
About a month or so ago we had a Slonka family reunion. One of our relatives went through tons of hard work to research all of our ancestors and ...7 comments
My New House
2007-09-22 22:38:34
On the 14th I closed on my house!!! My mom, dad, and myself spent a lot of time cleaning, spackling, taping, and painting. But after all of that ...1 comment
Misconceptions of Tor
2007-09-13 14:09:05
There have been some articles recently about Tor, specifically with people getting their sensitive information stolen while using Tor. The gist was, "I'm using Tor, my information should have ...0 comments
United Way Day of Caring
2007-09-13 08:08:47
Yesterday was the United Way Day of Caring. Myself along with four co-workers got assigned to work at Mom's House in Roxbury. For those who don't know, Mom's ...0 comments
Custom Ringtones on Verizon Motorola RAZR2 V9M
2007-09-11 17:38:09
My usual stance is, "I hate ringtones!" I do, I really, really do. They're annoying, people pick the most ridiculous songs, and they're so loud. But once ...0 comments
Use Gripfoo to Fix Stupid Filenames
2007-09-03 21:40:55
Since I totally switched to Linux, I haven't done any cd ripping. I used to use CDex on Windows and really liked it. That, however, isn't available for ...0 comments
One Way To Manage Bills
2007-08-24 17:21:10
Do you still manage your bills by hoping you have enough money in your checking account each month? I'm not saying I can solve your problems. If you're ...1 comment
Fooify your VBScript
2007-08-24 12:57:11
As any system administrator knows, due to the Windows Scripting Host (WSH), VBScript is a native language to Windows machines. By native, I mean that you can execute the ...0 comments
Hi-Def Winner? My Pick...
2007-08-24 09:27:12
Well the "war" has been going on for quite some time now. Sony's BluRay and Toshiba's HD-DVD continue to battle it out. But is it all for nothing? ...0 comments
I Pwnd Myself
2007-08-23 17:24:37
Seriously, how does this stuff happen? It all started as me preparing for teaching next week. I found out that the students would not have admin rights on ...1 comment
The Case for Absolute Positioning
2007-08-16 07:32:33
This is an argument I get into every so often with people. Whether, in your graphical applications, whether they be fat or web apps, to position your elements relatively ...2 comments
What Happened to the Internet?
2007-08-15 15:50:16
The internet has come a long way in it's short existence. But it seems that the parts of the internet that are valuable grow exponentially less than the parts ...0 comments
Be Anonymous with Tor and Privoxy
2007-08-13 20:20:19
So I decided that I've had enough of the world knowing what I'm doing. I've gone anonymous with Tor and Privoxy. What are they, you ask? Privoxy ...0 comments
Are You Prepared?
2007-08-06 13:12:19
In the event of a terrorist attack, do you know what to do? Most people don't. Be sure to check out this site to inform yourself. http://www.safenow.org/. Also, ...0 comments
Josh Groban Concert
2007-08-05 21:14:43
Josh Groban came to the Mellon Arena Saturday, August 4. Back in April when I heard the tickets were going on sale, I immediately went to Ticketmaster's website. ...4 comments
It's Made of What?
2007-07-30 20:53:09
I just, literally like 30 seconds ago, saw a commercial for Tampax. It appears they have a new product, Tampax Cardboard. Can someone from the woman community please ...2 comments
Email from the Command Prompt
2007-07-25 14:33:39
This is something I've known how to do for quite some time, but I thought it would be beneficial to others if I documented it (and myself for when I ...1 comment
Weekly Dose of Tech
2007-07-23 17:48:53
I've been a fan of ZDTV since the beginning; The Screensavers, Call For Help, etc. Then they turned into TechTV. Then G4 bought them and screwed everything up, ...0 comments
Note to the World: Beware!
2007-07-17 20:48:19
My cousins are in this week, so I went up my aunt's house to play with them tonight. Ryan, who is 4, loves Star Wars. We were wrestling ...0 comments
#10 FTW!
2007-07-10 21:51:33
Can you spot the geek? Rather, can you spot the #10 rider? No? Well, if you know a thing or two about different number bases you would. ...0 comments
Fireworks
2007-07-04 22:48:07
Well, the fireworks went off without a hitch. This was my first time actually taking pictures with the intent of them turning out good. I used my Canon ...0 comments
Goodbye Money
2007-07-04 16:42:50
I must love to spend money. Seriously. In the past two days I bought a new TV and a Yamaha YFZ450. But I am excited about both. ...0 comments
Trikefest 2007
2007-06-26 09:43:05
As most of you know, last week (Thursday-Sunday) I went to Trikefest with Rhuel. To give you some backstory, I have never ridden an ATV before. Actually, other ...0 comments
Paul Potts Winning Announcement and Performance
2007-06-17 17:49:02
Source: http://www.youtube.com/v/qwkVnyfdGYQ ...0 comments
Paul Potts Wins!
2007-06-17 17:32:05
He's done it! Paul Potts is the winner of Britain's Got Talent! Here is his final performance, the full version of Puccini's Nessun Dorma. Source: http://www.youtube.com/v/K_5W4t_CBzg ...0 comments
Paul Potts - Con Te Partiro
2007-06-14 21:32:19
He's done it again. All three judges are pretty much speechless, even Simon Cowell. This week's song was Con Te Partiro, originally written as a duet for Andrea ...0 comments
Britain's Got Talent... Seriously!
2007-06-12 22:22:30
This made the front page of Digg, so you probably already read/heard about it. That doesn't matter; it's worth sharing again. You've all heard of the TV show ...0 comments
Better way to work with images
2007-06-10 22:04:56
So I found a better (maybe?) way to show the images in your database without making a database call for each. I guess I'll get right into the changes ...0 comments
Storing images in a MySQL database
2007-06-09 13:48:46
I've been working with a friend on an e-business site lately. I had an idea of storing the images in the database instead of the filesystem. I had ...0 comments
Using SAN disks in Windows
2007-06-05 09:01:05
So you have a fibre-channel SAN connected to some servers and you want to know the correct way to make Windows see the space... Assuming you have done everything ...0 comments
Kill the unkillable process
2007-05-24 18:18:16
In the article I posted yesterday, I mentioned certain processes that cannot be killed by conventional means. You were probably thinking, what are conventional means and how would I ...5 comments
One way you've probably been owned
2007-05-23 13:18:43
This all stemmed from wanting to teach a friend at school a lesson: lock your computer! Quite regularly this person would get up and leave his computer unattended and ...2 comments
Leo goes down for the count
2007-05-21 13:36:18
I was just listening to episode 98 of TWiT and the funniest thing happened. The guys were right in the middle of a talk about Starcraft and other games ...0 comments
Review of Blink Personal Edition
2007-05-15 21:37:24
I've been playing around with Blink for a little bit now and would like to share some of the things that have been running through my head. If you'd ...0 comments
Goodbye Symantec, Hello eEye
2007-05-14 14:10:03
I was listening to the Security Now! (RSS) podcast, produced by TWiT, and heard some stuff I really liked. The latest podcast, Episode 91, featured Marc Maiffret from eEye ...0 comments
G3 '07 in Greensburg
2007-04-13 10:41:24
I don't even know where to begin. These guys were awesome! Joe Satriani, John Petrucci, and Paul freaking Gilbert... wow. I didn't know this, but Greensburg ...0 comments
Getting an AD domain's netBIOS name from a UPN
2007-03-23 21:26:26
I have been doing some C++ Win32 development lately and wanted to share two custom functions I needed to write. The point of my project was to authenticate a ...1 comment
LDAP Injection
2007-03-08 16:27:45
After taking some time to learn about SQL injection, I decided to learn a little about other types of injection; specifically LDAP injection. So after reading some whitepapers, I ...0 comments
Beryl skydome image not working?
2007-02-18 12:52:18
So you installed Beryl, you put a cool picture of giraffes as your wallpaper, and to complete the effect you want to put clouds as the skydome image. But ...1 comment
Install SUS on XP
2007-02-09 14:26:12
Are you sick and tired of installing a new system and having to download countless updates from Microsoft just to get your system up to date? Wouldn't it be ...2 comments
DISH HD... WOW!
2007-01-25 18:23:32
So yeah... wow! The guys just left about a half hour ago and everything's up and working awesomely. Right now I'm watching a Pretender's concert and it's like ...0 comments
First thoughts on the new tv
2007-01-20 22:41:06
Before my first thoughts, here's a tiny description of what I had to do to prepare for the new tv. Step 1: In the office, I had to pull back the ...0 comments
Day 3 with my new TV...
2007-01-19 21:03:30
...and it's working great! It was a real pain to get everything set up; rerouting about 10 coax cables, drilling holes for them through the floor and braces, nailing ...0 comments
Day 2 with my new TV...
2007-01-18 21:22:12
...and it's still not hooked up. When it got here yesterday, it was pretty cold since it was in a FedEx truck for who knows how long. I ...0 comments
Update linux on a thumb drive with `yupdate`
2007-01-13 21:23:06
I just got a new 4GB USB thumb drive. How should I use it? You guessed it, Linux. Just to be safe, I took the hard drive ...1 comment
Beethoven's Fur Elise... performed by the HP ScanJet 4c
2007-01-11 23:37:43
That's right... And you thought scanners were only for taking all of your important documents and archiving them so the sprinkler test on that floor didn't put you out ...0 comments
Game that makes your brain hurt
2007-01-06 00:32:07
Not too long ago this game, http://www.ouverture-facile.com/riddles/index.html, was posted to Digg. There are no instructions, just one clue per puzzle and the rest is up to you to figure ...1 comment
Westell 327W and Dell Wireless chipset issue: FIXED!
2007-01-02 21:34:48
For the longest time Verizon has been shipping the Westell 327W wireless router/switch/dsl modem to it's DSL customers. What their QA people never bothered to test were the major ...2 comments
IE7 breaks CSS... again!
2006-12-29 21:59:35
Most web designers who make use of CSS extensively know full well how IE, specifically version 6, doesn't render CSS correctly... at all. I mean, it's not even close. ...0 comments
I changed the face of Google!
2006-12-27 17:17:33
Anyone remember the old days of Google's personalized homepage? Yeah, you got all the RSS feeds you wanted, but you were stuck with the plain Google logo day after ...0 comments
Merry Christmas!
2006-12-25 21:29:43
Did you have a merry Christmas? I did. I really only wanted one thing, a Nintendo Wii. Well, I got one. I'm already in pain. ...2 comments
A Problem 98% Of You Can't Solve
2006-12-22 23:09:01
I was browsing digg when I came over the famous Zebra puzzle, except it was reworked a little bit. It's been said that Einstein claims 98% of the population ...2 comments
Comments are functional
2006-12-21 19:29:14
The comment feature has just been implemented. To make the site safter, I am stripping/converting any characters that could have harmful effects. Double quotes, single quotes, greater-than's, and ...2 comments
Beginner's Guide to HD
2006-12-21 14:53:01
If you're like me, you started your search knowing anything and everything about LCD's as they pertain to computers; however, when it came to TVs, DVDs, and video games, you're ...1 comment
Fedora Core 6 as a VMWare Guest OS
2006-12-20 14:27:46
A friend of mine had a Windows XP host and couldn't be without Linux. So I recommended installing VMWare and running Linux (specifically, Fedora Core 6) as a guest ...0 comments
Site is online!
2006-12-20 09:43:52
Last night I bought kevinslonka.com. I got my hosting through webmasters.com. Their site impressed me with the amount of stuff they supported. So once I bought the domain and signed ...0 comments
"The Simpsons" Knows About PA
2006-12-18 20:55:23
So I was watching The Simpsons tonight, the Kill Gil, Volumes I & II episode. There came a part when they were watching their TV. On the TV ...2 comments
Programming Active Directory with .NET
2006-12-15 16:09:01
One thing I had to figure out was how to change an AD user's account expiration date via a web page written in VB.NET. Sounds easy, right? So ...0 comments
Madrigal and Virginia
2006-12-05 20:34:14
This past weekend was the annual Madrigal Feast at Mount Aloysius. As always, it was a blast! I wasn't able to do it last year because it fell ...0 comments
New Site Design
2006-11-30 14:39:55
It's been a long time coming, but I finally got a semi-working new site. I started a new job at Northrop Grumman on November 6. The project I will be ...0 comments
And we shouldn't bomb them why?
2006-11-04 00:00:00
You have got to be kidding me. Why are we not bombing these people. Call me imperialist, call me closed-minded, I don't care. Someone needs to stop ...0 comments
VMware and Fedora Core 6
2006-10-31 00:00:00
Since I'm leaving CTC, I'll be giving back the laptop they gave me, which means that for class I have to use my laptop. No big deal, I got ...0 comments
I Am Loving Fedora Core 6
2006-10-27 23:00:00
I haven't used my laptop in a while. My desktop runs XP and I don't need another Windows computer. I wanted to make my laptop run some form ...0 comments
A Date Which Will Live In Infamy, Not Really
2006-10-23 23:00:00
So today was the day. I got to work to find that my manager's office was dark. No problem. It can wait a few minutes. So ...0 comments
Goose's Wedding
2006-09-15 23:00:00
So Goose called me one night and asked if I'd be the cantor for his wedding. That was awesome. But then he told me that I'd be singing ...0 comments
Movie Review: Just Friends
2006-09-08 23:00:00
Because of a friend's recommendation, I ordered "Just Friends." It arrived yesterday, but due to me having no time whatsoever, I just now watched it. I was very ...0 comments
It's almost vacation time!
2006-09-06 23:00:00
So I was talking to Chrissy on MySpace and mentioned that I need a vacation. I got about a month of vacation time saved up and need to go ...0 comments
Wedding pictures
2006-09-02 23:00:00
I finally got a link to the pictures from Jeremy and Kaleena's wedding. I saved the ones that pertained to me and put them in my PhotoBucket storage. ...0 comments
Favorite clips
2006-09-01 23:00:00
I can never seem to find the clips I want to watch when I want to watch them, so I decided to take the time to find them and let ...0 comments
Seriously!...
2006-08-21 23:00:00
One of my really good friends, Kerrie, is moving to Rochester this weekend. With all of the stuff she has to get done before moving, I knew I would ...0 comments
Ohh, it's the deep burn. Oh, it's so deep. Oh, I can barely lift my left arm.
2006-08-19 23:00:00
Why, you ask? Patience... So yesterday was Jeremy's wedding. I was the best man. That's right, the best. Being the best man means I have ...0 comments
Work with me here... you're a monkey, Derek!
2006-08-14 23:00:00
So yesterday the package arrived! My new camera! I've been waiting for this for a while. The Canon EOS 30D with the standard 18-55mm lens, a 28-135mm ...0 comments
Kelli got engaged!
2006-08-11 23:00:00
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