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How I once took down a network, including a radio station

Dave Farquhar — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 11:00:42 +0000

I met up Monday night with some other security professionals for some emergency networking of the professional kind. One of the attendees, a penetration tester, had a little incident where he took down a production system when he conducted his

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Roll your own Retro-64

Dave Farquhar — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 19:19:16 +0000

So an upstart company has licensed the Commodore name and unveiled an updated C-64, which is essentially a nettop in a 64-alike case with a 64-like keyboard. Reactions are extreme. People either love it or hate it. I’d like to

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Barfy.

Dave Farquhar — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 00:13:19 +0000

I started my professional career doing network administration at the University of Missouri. (I generally don't count my stint selling low-quality PCs at the last surviving national consumer electronics chain towards my professional experience anymore.)

The University had its own IT department, but some of the larger departments, particularly Journalism, had their own IT departments as well. I worked for the School of Journalism.

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Running ancient DOS games on modern Windows

Dave Farquhar — Fri, 13 Feb 2004 04:40:02 +0000

So today I was one of at least two people trying to help Jerry Pournelle get the original Railroad Tycoon running under Windows XP. The secret is DOSBox, a cross-platform DOS emulator.

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