Author: frishrash

  • Chatting with the dark side

    Sometimes, it happens that I prefer being anonymous on the net. I’m not talking about “big brother” conspiracies and how google knows everything about me. It’s probably true, but I’ve nothing to hide from them. I’m talking about situations where I need to reach darker areas of the net, areas swarming with evil. I don’t…

  • We don't need no Microsoft education

    My college, for some reason really likes Microsoft. All the workstations run windows, documents are always in office format, software development is done in visual studio, the website used to look normal in IE only, etc… I expected computers science department to provide us students with alternatives, expose us to different platforms, but it didn’t…

  • My new OpenPGP key

    This is my new OpenPGP key (for the next year): F2ED25CE. If you don’t know what it means, it’s probably irrelevant for you… Oh well, basically you can use it to send me encrypted email/files so only I could read them. I can use it to sign on my emails/files (so the receiver can verify…

  • Virtualizing Mac OS X on Linux

    In my last post I wrote about virtualization. Here I’m going to introduce the world of virtualizing Mac OS X (Apple’s operating system) on linux. Why would anyone want to run Mac OS X on virtual machine? Many reasons. Some people buy Apple’s computer but prefer linux as an operating system. However they still use…

  • Trinity: Acer, AMD and the holy BIOS modders

    This story is about three things I despite: bad support, not fully utilizing my computer’s hardware and injustice. At least it got happy ending 🙂 It all started two years ago when I purchased my current computer, Acer aspire L5100. It looked sexy, compact, had good spec and was on a special sale. The processor…