On March 24, 2020 Tulsa issued a COVID stay at home order. As I locked our office door that night, I had no idea when I’d be back. My real concern wasn’t work-related, it was the April 19 due date of my daughter’s second child, exactly on what was predicted would be the very worst […]
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I Thought Regular Expressions Were the Answer
In the Programming by Stealth podcast I do with Bart Busschots, we had an assignment a while back to create a web app that would show the time in two different cities of their choice. I took the assignment up a notch and added a little slider you could drag to change the time in […]
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Security Bits — 18 April 2021
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. 🇬🇧 (🏴 & 🏴) Both Apple & Google have stopped the NHS from publishing an update to their COVID app to insert location tracking. This is expressly forbidden in their COVID exposure notification API […]
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Am I the Only One Who Calls AppleCare?
Mac App Store Unable to Download App In macOS Big Sur lately, there’s a problem that has been plaguing most of my nerd friends, and it’s the Mac App Store failing to download updates. It starts with a notification that there are updates. Click on the notification to launch the Mac App Store. At this […]
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Synology Storage Part II – OWC RAID Enclosure
OWC RAID Enclosure Next to Synology & Drobo I recently walked you through the process Steve and I went through to deal with a Synology Disk Station that was running out of space. I ended the story by explaining that I pulled two of the 4TB drives, replaced them with 8TB drives, which gained me […]
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Researching the Best Way to Gain Storage on Our Synology NAS
Synology RAID Calculator Demonstrates 4TB in 5 Slots Gets 16TB of Available Space About 9 months ago I bought a Synology Disk Station which is a network attached storage device, also known as a NAS. I bought the DS1019+, which is a 5-bay unit, and populated it with five 4TB Western Digital drives. 20TB […]
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Fun Automation Project – Moving Blog Post Links to the Podcast Feed
NosillaCast Links Visible in Downcast Have you ever noticed that when you’re listening to the NosillaCast in your podcatcher of choice that you also get a list of the links to each blog post article that’s in the show? You can simply tap those links to get right to the content, see the images, and […]
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Apple Beats Flex Wireless Bluetooth Earphones, by Kurt Liebezit
Review of the Apple Beats Flex Wireless Bluetooth Earphones, by Kurt Liebezit, also known as PDX_Kurt in the live chat room. Apple Beats Flex in Flame Blue This is a review of the Apple Beats Flex wireless Bluetooth earphones. As you might guess, I’m a fan of podcasts. For quite some time I’ve used an […]
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Wyss Institute Multi-Segment Displays at CSUN – Michael Karpelson Interview Transcript
For my last interview at CSUN’s Accessible Tech conference this year, I spoke with Michael Karpelson of the Wyss Institute. The audio for this conversation will be in NosillaCast #830 which will be published on 4 April 2021. You can learn more about the Wyss Institute and Michael’s work by going to wyss.harvard.edu/… You can […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits — 4 April 2021 Including Deep Dive on Firefox’s SmartBlock
Security Bits — 4 April 2021 Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. 🇺🇸 Following on from the excellent Motherboard reporting last time that showed how easy it was to hijack the SMS messages destined for a US cellphone number, the […]
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