Category Archives: Soapbox

Is security a fallacy?

Posted on May 23, 2018 by DocDock

How many times have you heard or read that the best course of action is to keep your computer up to date with security patches.  This is true for your computers operating systems, device drivers, computer BIOS, software applications including … Continue reading →

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don’t forget to periodically vote with your wallet

Posted on March 14, 2018 by DocDock

I don’t usually purchase any Windows software as I am a “Linux” guy.  I guess it makes sense as most Windows software packages wouldn’t work on your distribution even with a lot of prayers and the most current version of … Continue reading →

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Customer advocacy or just smarting off without consequences

Posted on January 4, 2018 by DocDock

Don’t ever dare Murphy’s law. I guess I did put the hit out on our washing machine by bragging how old it was.  Within weeks, it broke. We have children and cannot be without a wash machine for more than … Continue reading →

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Support your favorite …

Posted on December 2, 2017 by DocDock

The open source community is an amazing place.  No matter what software you want there is an extremely good chance that it exists. You can use Gimp for manipulating graphic images, LibreOffice or Apache Office for word processing, piviti for … Continue reading →

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fighting the last war – playing Blu-ray movies on Linux

Posted on November 25, 2017 by DocDock

How exactly did the product meeting go. We never had a graphical desktop and so lets just continue on with a 25 x 80 character green text only screen, the customer always loved those. Today a personal computer or even … Continue reading →

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The perception of power (of 9 volts)

Posted on November 13, 2017 by DocDock

When travelling I want to arrive at my destination ontime and unhurt.  I do appreciate that the world’s governments are just as interested and do take steps to ensure that dangerous people don’t hijack the plane or even worse. Unfortunately … Continue reading →

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creation of a more responsible padlock

Posted on October 16, 2017 by DocDock

I have been cleaning up my flat in preparation for the move when I ran across a few small TSA locks.  Sure I have used them when traveling to and from the United States but it certainly seemed to be … Continue reading →

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airplane data security

Posted on August 21, 2017 by DocDock

When I think about airlines I think about a lot of things but I don’t think of high tech. That isn’t very realistic as jet engines are pretty high tech devices and the ability to book reservations over the internet is … Continue reading →

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facial scans coming to an airport near you

Posted on August 4, 2017 by DocDock

We want to protect you from the world. I think that a lot of people want to do the right thing and protect others from bad things. Sometimes this takes shape in the form of a law or a rule that … Continue reading →

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safe computing – weak case for weakening encryption

Posted on June 27, 2017 by DocDock

You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. William J. H. Boetcker This quote has been often misattributed to Abraham Lincoln.  This is actually a very relevant thought with the respect to economics.  Indeed you cannot improve everybody’s lot … Continue reading →

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