JustinLog: Archive

Maddow destroys Americans for Prosperity's Tim... →

Oct 16th

CNN's Rick Sanchez Destroys Fox News, "You Lie."... →

Sep 19th

"A Fu**** Bee just stung me",,,,,,Look! →

Aug 30th

xkcd - A Webcomic - Tech Support Cheat Sheet →

Aug 24th

Barney Frank Confronts Woman Comparing Obama to... →

Aug 20th

Looks like I now have a dorm room for next year. No more RIT Inn :)

Aug 20th

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Essentials, 2009 Edition

In the spirit of Mark Pilgrim, I thought that I would post my own list of Essentials. Mac OS X 10.5.8 - it’s Unix, yet also is intuitive, simple, and beautiful Firefox 3.5 + NoScript + AdBlock Plus + Firebug + Xmarks - Firefox is probably the best browser out there, and combined with these extensions it provides the perfect environment for me for both normal browsing and web development ...

Aug 8th

Aug 3rd

Jul 31st

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SUSE Studio

It’s been a while since my last post (about 3 months), and I thought that I’d break the silence today with a neat-o discovery of mine, which is called SUSE Studio. While I haven’t been able to use it yet, I’ve read an Ars Technica article about it and have also watched the screencast on the SUSE Studio website. SUSE Studio is a website that lets you build your own...

Jul 30th

Apr 25th

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Wireless security is not...

Being a networking major, I’m keen on issues relating to network security, and by association, insecurity. I’m particularly interested with 802.11 wireless technology, as I have had a lot of experience with it and know a bit about how it works. Properly securing a WiFi network is not at all hard, but I’m still amazed at the amount of disinformation that still exists about certain...

Apr 14th

Burned By Mr. Obama

Ouch. During Obama’s recent press event, a CNN reporter started grilling him about why it took a few days before he publicly expressed his rage for the AIG bonuses. He asked it along with a few other questions; when Obama finished answering, apparently he wasn’t too satisfied with the answer, because he came back and asked again. Why did it take you a couple days to publicly express...

Mar 26th

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New iPod Shuffles

Earlier today, Apple unveiled their new iPod Shuffles, and I have some mixed feelings about them. I’ve never been a fan of the shuffle. It just seemed like a cheap little thing that has nothing in common with the rest of the iPod line except for the name. The reason that the iPod was such a breakthrough in MP3 players is because of its interface. When the iPod came out, there existed other...

Mar 11th

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Interesting TiVo Ad

For anyone who has a TiVo, you’ll notice sporadic ads placed in parts of the interface. Nothing really obtrusive or annoying, but they’re there (or maybe those ads only appear on DirecTV TiVos; I’ve never used a virgin TiVo, so I couldn’t say). And everyone who has one knows that at the end of a recording, a screen pops up that lets you delete the episode if you’re...

Mar 5th

It’s amazing how fun Apples to Apples can be

Feb 22nd

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Watch

I couldn’t agree more.

Feb 21st

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I just did something...

…something I’ve never done before. Something I never thought that I would do. I purchased a song on iTunes. *gasp* And now it’s very apparent to me what the record labels can do if they really want to combat piracy. It’s not to mandate the use of DRM. They’ve tried that for years now, and it’s very clear that DRM serves only as a mechanism to screw over...

Feb 10th

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Random Rant: These are not words

Just so everyone knows: these following words are not actually words. They are stupid phonetic spellings that only make you look unintelligent when you type them. prolly tomarrow labtop spose Every time I see one of those, I get the strong urge to walk to the offending users’s computer and barf all over the keyboard.

Feb 1st

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Why Gmail is the Best Email Service

Recently, Gmail (Google’s free email service) got a swift kick into the spot of “Best Email Service” with offline support, enabled by Google Gears. Now you are able to access the Gmail web interface and do everything you could do before, only now you don’t need a network connection to do it. You can read messages, star, label, search, save drafts, and “send”...

Jan 31st

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The Xbox 360 Supports WHAT?

Earlier today I was confronted with a situation: I have a video file that is larger than 4 GB, and I would like to play it on my Xbox 360. The easiest way to go about this would be to put it on my 8 GB flash drive and play it from there. Sounds easy enough. Well, no. Unfortunately, the FAT32 filesystem doesn’t support files larger than 4 GB. This is the filesystem that is...

Jan 24th

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Colbert Remix

Jan 22nd

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RIT's Poor Password Standard

I’ve just rediscovered the RIT password standard for all RIT computer accounts, and I’m quite dissapointed, being a Networking and Security major. An RIT computer account gives you access to everything from your email to billing. It’s an essential part of your college life here, and someone could wreak quite a bit of havoc if they gained access to it. A secure password needs to...

Jan 15th

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Random Rant: Smileys only go one way

There is a very simple way to make a smiley face with text. It is like this - :). If you want, you can even put a dash in the middle for a nose, so it becomes :-). They have to go in that order. (: is not a smiley face. The internet culture has defined a smiley face as :), it has been that way for many years. That is the sensible way: in english, we read from left to right, so it makes more...

Jan 12th

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Merry Christmas Everyone!

I’d just like to wish everyone out there a Merry Christmas. I thought that I’d post something interesting. I was perusing Newegg briefly this afternoon to see if they were going to have any after-Christmas sales, and I came across this: It’s an OEM copy of Windows Vista 64. But at first glance, the picture looks a lot like the XP box. Change “Vista” to...

Dec 25th

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New Apple In-Ear Headphones Rock!

I just today got my new Apple In-Ear headphones. And I have one thing to say about them: They’re Awesome! The sound quality is spectacular, they are very comfortable (three sizes are included, which is standard practice for this type of headphone), and the microphone and ultra-button, as I call it, work on the iPhone (the volume control doesn’t, but the buttons on the phone itself...

Dec 19th

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Random Rant: 'saw' is not spelled 'sawr'

This is the first post in a series that I’ll call “random rants”. They’re basically triggered any time I see something that makes me go “huh?” For the first RR, I would like to remind everyone (especially those with a British accent) that the word ‘saw’ is pronounced just how it is spelled. It does not end in an ‘r’. Every time I hear...

Dec 11th

“12:27… The closest we’ll ever get to leet time.”

– Justin Gerace

Dec 11th

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HTML5 Video in Firefox 3.1 Beta 2

For those who don’t know, Mozilla has released the second beta of Firefox 3.1. With it brings a couple of neat features, including a private browsing mode (like Safari and Google Chrome have) and a new javascript interpreter. But one thing that interested me is support for the new <video> tag that is part of the new HTML 5 specification. This means that it’s now possible for...

Dec 10th

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Colbert Hubmles Kanye

Dec 5th

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iTunes Plus

Recently, Stephen Colbert issued a challenge to the Colbert Nation: buy his album on iTunes and humble Kanye West, whose new album was beating his in the iTunes charts. It was called Operation: Humble Kanye, and proceeds were going to Feed America. The plan was simple: everyone would go to iTunes and buy his album at 5:00 PM EST on Wednesday. I was actually planning on buying it, but after seeing...

Dec 5th

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Apple Products That Suck

I very much enjoy Apple’s products and OS X is a great operating system, although I don’t think they’ve done everything spectacular, nor is their entire product line without flaws. I think it’s only fair to criticize Apple where necessary and appropriate. So here’s my official list: Mighty Mouse - this probably is among the worst of Apple’s products. Steve Jobs...

Dec 4th

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Dec 3rd

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Ruby Ruby Ruby Rub-ay!

I’ve been making an attempt lately to learn the Ruby programming language. The only programming language I currently know well is Java (bleh), which I took in High School (right up through AP) and which is also required in my major. I’ve been trying to learn some others, mostly for fun at this point; but with Ruby I could apply what I know to an awesome framework called Ruby on Rails...

Dec 3rd

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Dec 1st

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I do love Apple’s computers, but I still found this hilarious.

Dec 1st

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Random Thought

I love it when commercials are in HD. That’s the only thing that will make me pay attention to them anymore.

Nov 29th

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Nov 28th

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“You know you’re in Syracuse when it’s both raining and snowing at...”

– Justin Gerace

Nov 25th

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iPhone/iPod Touch 2.2 Software Lands

I’ve recently upgraded my iPhone to the 2.2 software, and so far I’m impressed. There are a couple features in particular that i’m excited about: Google Maps street view - this is way cool, and works incredibly well. Put a pin somewhere on the map, and if that area is streetview’d up, a special icon appears that lets you enter street view mode. You can pan around just like...

Nov 25th

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