Mad Irish

Articles in technology

1. Customers Need to Know Process Models - Organizations take someone who is at the top of their technical game and suddenly switch them into a whole different role that they often times have to learn from scratch.
2. Is Drupal Ready for the Enterprise? - Although Drupal has many of the trappings of an enterprise level CMS such as dedicated development and security teams, commercial backing from companies like Acquia and others, it may not be fully ready for the enterprise.
3. Disturbing Decision by US Courts Regarding Encryption - Sebastien Boucher was arrested at the Canadian/US border crossing for having child pornography...
4. Copyright Infringement (a.k.a. Google Sucks) - Today I ran across a case of someone blatantly republishing my content without consent or approval.
5. Protecting Your Data During Computer Disposal - Instruction for security destroying your old hardware
6. First Looks at Google Chrome - This week Google entered the web browser wars with a vengeance, releasing their own web browser, dubbed Chrome, as a free beta.
7. SanDisk Sansa Clip Annoyances - Problem was I plugged it into my XP laptop and it was recognized as a new USB device, but it wouldn't show up in my 'My Computer' menu.
8. Identity Protection - If you haven't done a web search for your own name lately you definitely should. It's a worthwhile exercise to see what sort of information is coming up, and to take stock of whether or not you want to protect your identity or at least muddy the waters
9. Links - Long, long ago, people used to publish links to their favorite websites on their own homepages.
10. On Multiple Single Factor Authentication - Two factor authentication is fast becoming an industry standard for high value applications. Unfortunately a lot of misunderstanding surrounds two factor authentication, and thus, the implementation is often less than ideal.
11. Converting a Decimal Digit to IEEE 754 Binary Floating Point - IEEE 754 Binary Floating Point is a 32-bit representation (for single precision, 64 bits are used for double precision) for floating point numerals.
12. Long Time... or Taxonomies in CMS'es - When developing content management systems it is important to provide an abstract enough framework to allow users to customize their presentation to their tastes.
13. Props to Apple - So I wasn't at all surprised when, while walking around the neighborhood I spotted one of the old style iPod Shuffle's stuck in the snow under a thin layer of ice.
14. Irish Hot Teens - While it's still early for St. Patrick's Day I thought I'd point out an interesting tidbit I noticed from my server logs recently.
15. Damn DST (*yawn*) - Ok, so it's the day for the new daylight savings time (DST to those in the know).
16. Open Document Formats for All - Using the open document formats ensures that no matter what changes happen to your word processing program, your data will never get locked away in a proprietary format.
17. Google Miscounting Page Hits - Google adsense seems to be miscounting the hits I get on my site.
18. C and Building a B0x3n -
19. GSM vs. CDMA - Two Competing Cell Phone Technologies - There are two main types of cell phones used in the US. These are GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) and CDMA/iDEN.
20. GSM vs. CDMA - Two Competing Cell Phone Technologies - A short discussion about the two leading cell phone technologies used in the US - GSM and CDMA.
21. SanDisk Micro Cruzer - A review of the SanDisk Cruzer Micro USB drive and the enclosed U3 technology.
22. Browsers the Killer App? - This post is in response to a blog post on ChrisKeane.net.
23. Relational Filesystems - I’m working on an online document storage application. In a nutshell, documents can be uploaded into a database and classified for sharing with other users. It’s a fairly straightforward use of a web based database application, but it got me thinking.
24. Reserved IP Addresses - Listing of reserved IP address ranges and their classes.
25. Internet Information Discovery and Retention - An exploration of information retrieval and retention on the internet, including tips and tools for anonymizing your online activity.
26. Top Level Domain (TLD) Country Codes - Top Level Domain (TLD) Country Codes
27. Hubs And Switches, What's the Difference? - A short description of the distinguishing characteristics of hubs and switches. How to choose the best one for your needs.
28. Web Bugs in Hot Teen Action! - Graphic descriptions of web bugs in hot online action for your pleasure!
29. Madirish Tutorial 03 - Understanding your tools, a brief look at computer components and hardware, what they all do and why.
30. Madirish Tutorial 04 - Getting connected and getting online.
31. Madirish Tutorial 05 - A deeper look at TCP/IP and ports.
32. Intro to Cable/DSL Routers - Installing, configuring and understanding cable and DSL routers for your home LAN.