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Author Archives: Darren VanBuren
Kindle Fire Somewhat Review
So, I bought myself a Kindle Fire from Amazon. Quite simply put, I quite enjoy the tablet. It’s just the right size, and isn’t skimpy on computation power. I haven’t done a fair comparison of having accelerated browsing on vs … Continue reading
Posted in hardware, holiday, software
Tagged Amazon, Amazon Silk, CloudFlare, Kindle, Kindle Fire, review
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A Time of Rememberance
You probably already know, but as I write this, it is the day of the 10th anniversary of the attacks on the United States by terrorists. September 11th, 2001 was a day that changed all of America, for the rest … Continue reading
Posted in government, holiday
Tagged america, government, Osama bin Laden, september 11th, terrorism, USA
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Well Here We Are Again
Lots has happened for OKS since I last wrote. The things that have happened have been good and bad, but where we are at now is a place I am content with. Comcast began blocking port 25 TCP, and that … Continue reading
Posted in games, oks
Tagged comcast, gaming, Minecraft, oks, portal 2, school, video games
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A post? They have those on blogs?
I load the front page of my blog nearly every day. I just can’t seem to create a post that has enough value that it’s worth posting at all. However, now I will. That aside, I have been looking at … Continue reading
Posted in oks, software, summer, twitter, wordpress
Tagged +1, CloudFlare, google, Minecraft, Minecraft Renders, oks, twitter, wordpress, zooomable minecraft render
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Blog Optimizations
So I took some time to check things up, and I looked up some stuff. I took a look at Mashable’s 11 Ways to Speed Up WordPress. I picked up W3 Total Cache and set it up. I set everything … Continue reading
Posted in software, wordpress
Tagged caching, mashable, plugins, speed, w3 total cache, wordpress
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Google Authenticator and a finished robot
Last Tuesday, we got our robot shipped, or rather, put in a big clear plastic bag with big red zip tie on it. Although we shipped overweight, and missing a few components, this is better than last year on completeness … Continue reading
Posted in linux, robotics, school, software
Tagged bag n' tag, debian, debian squeeze, first, frc, google, Google Authenticator, linux, PAM, robotics
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Half-Life 2 for days…
So, my gamerscore on Xbox LIVE got reset, as it was indeed modded. So, I started to collect my achievements again. I started off by playing Half-Life 2 over again. It was fun. I paused in the middle to play … Continue reading
