Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

A FreeBSD 10 Desktop How-to

Image
A FreeBSD 10 Desktop How-to FreeBSD is a fast, secure, modern  Unix-like  operating system with a fantastic community, great documentation, and powerful technologies like ZFS and LLVM. It’s my operating system of choice for everything from my beefy i7-2600k desktop to my home router to my ARM plug computer jukebox. Though famed for its uptime in the datacenter the same OS is just as suited to desktop or laptop computing with a little work. Why use FreeBSD? Maybe I’m just getting old, but it’s nice to use an operating system that didn’t spawn a billion-dollar anti-malware industry through frequent security failings, where you can choose the interface you like and reasonably expect it to stay that way instead of being forced into the  design   fad   du   jour , where you don’t have to argue about the init system being replaced  two   times  in the same decade, and whose key organizations don’t collectively  kowtow to Microsoft ...
Keep reading

How Udemy Is Profiting From Piracy

Image
How Udemy Is Profiting From Piracy I watched a little drama unfold over the last few days involving Troy Hunt, a security specialist and a “tall, fine-looking Australian” according to some mutual friends: Classic. This stuff happens. Especially in the video training world. When I ran Tekpub it would take (typically) a day or two (sometimes just a few hours) for the torrents to hit. It’s a price of doing business. But I had never seen a business actually  profiting from piracy . Not until Troy mentioned Udemy. And then I wondered:  is any of my stuff up there ? So headed over and even as I entered the search term for the first video I could think of (a MeteorJS course I did for Pluralsight) I knew what I would find: Yep. That’s mine. It was submitted by “Robert C”. How clever: I started to dig a little more but then stopped. I know what’s in there.  It took me all of three seconds to find the first title that popped in my head . A Very Shady B...
Keep reading