A quick note on security

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digg_url = ‘http://blog.georgegumpert.com/2007/05/07/a-quick-note-on-security/’;I saw this on Digg’s upcoming stories today: Totally complete sources.list for Ubuntu Feisty Fawn, and felt a chill of terror. Visions of masses of users new to Ubuntu (and Linux in general), downloading this sources.list [...]

Photoshop Tutorial: Faking Infrared Photography

digg_url = ‘http://blog.georgegumpert.com/2007/05/07/photoshop-tutorial-faking-infrared-photography/’;Infrared photography is one of the most distinguishable types of photography. Unfortunately, it’s also one of the more expensive. If you’re using a film camera, it requires the purchase of filters and film, and if you’re using a digital camera, it still requires the purchase of a filter, and sometimes even [...]

Paid to Blog (Honestly)

A hot topic of debate in the “blogosphere” has been the topic of advertising. Why do people look down on advertisements on blogs? Sometimes it’s because they’re intrusive. Other times it’s because there are more ads than content. But sometimes it’s because it’s hard to distinguish the difference between paid articles [...]

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So I’ve been playing with a random number generator, and came across this combination. I found it quite visually pleasing.

LCoTD: File Viewing

digg_url = ‘http://blog.georgegumpert.com/2007/05/02/lcotd-file-viewing/’;Today I’ll be covering commands related to file viewing. These commands are cat, less, head, tail, nl, od, xxd, gv, and xdvi