Most networking hardware vendors will have you believe wireless routers simply need to be taken out of the box, plugged in, and assigned a silly name so that your neighbors know how funny you are. This is not true, especially for city dwellers who must contend with wireless interference from living in close proximity to […]

According to Ars Technica, Apple’s release of OS X 10.10.4 not only brought us much needed stability updates via the removal of the system process ‘Discoveryd’, it finally gave us a simple command line to enable TRIM support for systems using 3rd party SSDs. Previously OS X only allowed TRIM support on OEM drives, so […]

This morning I woke up to Twitter buzzing about an #activeshooter at the Navy Yard. I live in Southeast Washington DC, pretty close to that installation, though far enough away to feel absolutely safe. However, one of my family members commutes to work using the Navy Yard Metro, and the timing of this alert matched […]