Guns, Cars, and Tech

Category: Tech

  • Introducing oddball

    Oddball and I go way back. He and I ran in the same circles in high school, and we think we might have run into each other back then. We really started hanging out about 7 years ago when I moved back to Nashville and started getting involved with a local group of geeks.

    When I started this blog, I knew from day one that I’d bring him on eventually. He’s the guy that helps me put on “New Shooter Range Day” and I often ask him to join me when I’m taking someone new to the range. His firearms focus is more from the historical perspective than mine (his only EBRs were bought from me). Loves his Nagant and .22lr revolver.

    He also loves his cars. I’ll let him tell you about his Fiero.

    And of course, since I met him through a group that puts on a hacker convention every year, he’s got mad tech skills, too!

  • I love Amazon Prime

    26 hours ago, Uncle posted this.

    Just now, UPS delivered this:
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    I love living in the future.

  • Say what you want about the pantsless lifestyle….

    …but the man sure does good work. I no longer have those God awful default headers rotating through. I also have a nifty logo! Always wanted a personal logo. Might drop by The Hacker Consortium in the next couple of weeks to get some time with their laser engraver and vinyl cutter.

    I think an AR with my blog logo engraved on the lower would kick ass.

    I also did some other style changes recently and added a canned privacy policy (apparently having a privacy policy is good for Google).

    So, what do you guys think? Anything else I need to change (I know the headers were pretty universally hated)?

  • Freakin Finally

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    Logitech Revue got the 3.1 update

  • Now that that’s taken care of

    You can now follow the blog on that twitter thingy.

    @GCTBlog

  • Testing twitter

    I just signed up for a twitter account and used some wordpress plugin to automagically move posts to twitter.

    Let’s see if that works.

    Update: nope

    How bout now?

    Bueller?

    Still nothing?

  • Stop ignoring the Java Update

    You know that little box that pops up, like, every day that says “There is an update for Java available?”

    You need to go ahead and update that.

    Like, right now.

    There is a serious vulnerability that doesn’t care if you’re a Mac, PC, Linux, or UNIX user. The vulnerability being out there is one thing (Oh, look at the cute little theory!), but when an exploit gets published to MetaSploit shit just got real.

    Seriously. RIGHT NOW!

    (Or uninstall it if you don’t need it. Unfortunately, I do need it.)

  • Well crap

    My 5 year old SIM card just died, and the AT&T stores closed like an hour ago.

    So me and my grandfathered unlimited data plan are going to try to get a new one tomorrow.

  • What’s your backup strategy?

    Work laptop just had a hard drive failure. Not easily recovered, and the company doesn’t automatically back up workstations.

    Lucky for me I started doing backups a couple of months ago.  I did a convoluted system that involved rsync, ssh tunnels, and cygwin, and now I’m glad I did.

  • The failure of gun control

    Good thing we have the NFA and the Hughes Amendment to keep criminals from having machine guns.

    I mean, it’s not like some teenager can build an open bolt, mag fed automatic airgun that shoots AA batteries with enough muzzle energy to maim or kill you. And he made it out of PVC and a sprinkler valve.

    The build thread indicates attempts at rifling and 1″ conduit produce more accurate results.