View source, next chapter A few weeks ago I wrote about a travesty of technology where officials in Missouri shifted the blame for making a mistake to a reporter for finding it. To sum it up, People in their organization made a series of mistakes that resulted in hundreds of thousands of people in education having …

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View Source I’ve been using browsers for almost 30 years and I can’t remember a time that there hasn’t been some sort of “View Source” option being present as I right click on a page. Of course there were some ham fisted attempts to hide it with JavaScript. I’ve even seen pages pull …

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Cover image from Wikipedia. Word sizes We have a range of word sizes with computers. If you have used a wide range of machines you may have even seen bytes with more or less than 8 bits. We have standardized on 8 bits in a byte in the last 40 decades. Characters can be 8, 16, 32 or a variable number of bytes depending …

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[cover image comes from Wikipedia] It’s all about the backups Ransomware is all over the news right now. It has gone from a harassment for payment in cryptocurrency to shutting down medical care and crippling supplies of food and fuel. These attacks are hitting all of us and have become a real problem, but the …

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