Last Friday, I did a panel at A-Kon 28 about starting out with Gimp. I had been wanting to do a panel for a while, so I prepared for this one. I followed the advice of the dynamic duo that is Vitamin H, and planned out what I was going to say, along with practice. […]
How About Those Hidden Costs?
Usually, when a business owner draws up their budget, or when they’re forecasting, they try to get all of the information necessary to make a decision. So they check as many costs as they can, see which ones they can control, see how they can turn a profit, and move in the right direction. Sadly, […]
Trying My Hand at Making a System for Procedurally Generating Stories
Last year, I got the idea of making a game where a group of friends could get together, have a game scenario generated for them, and they could start playing. This is something called procedural generation, wherein game settings, mechanics, assets, and other components are created from an alogorthim, and a bit of randomness. I […]
Newer Ways of Audit Reporting on Third Party Companies
I went to a recent meeting of the North Texas chapter of ISACA, and there was a presentation on SSAE 18. For those of you who don’t know, SSAE 18 supersedes SSAE 16, and consolidates Service Organization Controls reporting into something more manageable. Here, I’ll talk about what I’ve learned about SSAE 18, SOC 1, […]
Migrating My Nextcloud Server to Another Server
When I saw that my version of Ubuntu could not be upgraded any more (due to Digital Ocean’s system), I had to migrate my Nextcloud installation (version 11.0.2) to a newer version of Ubuntu (16.04). In the documentation for Nextcloud, it details how to exactly migrate your Nextcloud installation to another Linux server, so I […]
Helping Out a Local Charity
I’ve been helping out a local charity with preparing tax returns for the needy and underprivileged for the past few weeks and we’ve run into a problem. Each time we have to print out the tax returns for the clients, we have to take the laptop over to the printer to have it printed out. […]
Learning About Setting Controls for I.T. Assets
In my pursuit to get into the information technology (IT) audit field, I must learn about setting controls for securing IT assets, minimizing risk, and eventually testing that said controls work. In major organizations where information flows constantly and is utilized to advance the organization’s goals, ensuring that the information and knowledge are accurate, intact, […]
MyCroft, AI, and how I’m trying to help it
The other day, I saw that a version of MyCroft was released for the Raspberry Pi. I have been following MyCroft for a while now (mostly through the Linux Action Show) and have tried using it. The software is still in beta, so I found some bugs with it, namely I can’t really use it. […]
Interesting video on designing programming languages
Yesterday, I started watching this video on programming languages, and it took me over forty minutes to stop watching the video. It’s not because that the video was over an hour long, but rather the subject matter of the video. It’s a presentation by Brian Kernighan titled “How to succeed in language design without really […]
Made My Own NES Classic Console
It looks like the NES Classic is sold out every where, and there are scalpers on eBay trying to bilk old fans out of their hard-earned coins. Now, I don’t want to get an NES Classic on account of owning a couple of the featured games, as well as owning them on the Virtual Console. […]