Category Archives: Random

Bank Robbery Stats

By Jacob Allred | Published: March 24, 2011

I’ve been watching The Kill Point on Netflix. This is a short series about a bunch of military guys that take hostages in a bank. I’ve seen a bunch of these types of shows recently, and have started to wonder how often banks actually get robbed. I don’t get the news, and I never see [...]

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Re-downloading pending Windows updates

By Jacob Allred | Published: February 15, 2011

Update 2/26/2011: I neglected to mention that this fix is normally only needed for Windows XP. Windows 7 appears to have some auto-fix thing built-in, and I’ve never had this issue with Windows Vista. I’ve often run into an issue where a Windows update is downloaded but can’t be installed. No matter how many times [...]

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Find out why your car insurance is so high

By Jacob Allred | Published: September 9, 2010

So I’m sure you are all aware of Comprehensive Loss Underwriting Exchange (C.L.U.E.), right? What?! You’ve never heard of it? Okay, me neither until today, but I’ll save you some time and give you the highlights of what I’ve learned. C.L.U.E. is sort of like your credit report, but instead of tracking your credit cards, [...]

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Connecticut

By Jacob Allred | Published: July 4, 2010

I’ve only been here for a few weeks, but I’ve already come to realize that Connecticut (at least New Haven) is a weird place. It isn’t just that they have tag sales instead of yard sales, or that recycling is required by law and failure to do so is punishable by death a fine, or [...]

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The amazing config.nice

By Jacob Allred | Published: May 27, 2010

I think most anyone who compiles their software from scratch has run into this problem: They want to re-compile but can’t remember what configure options they used. For PHP, you can use phpinfo(), but what about Apache? Or OpenSSL? Or APC? It turns out that most packages create a config.nice when you compile them that [...]

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