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The Indie3 Project is Live!

By Robert Fischer | Published: June 16, 2010

Introducing The Indie3 Project: commit to keeping independent music alive by buying three albums a month.

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What Do You Have on Sex, Spirituality, and Religion?

By Robert Fischer | Published: January 12, 2010

If you bump into interest books, articles, blogs, or blog posts regarding sex, spirituality, and religion, let me know. I’m gathering up information for another project. More details forthcoming.

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Warning: Toshiba External HDD Sucks for Linux

By Robert Fischer | Published: January 11, 2010

Major difficulties with a Toshiba external hard drive disk when running it via a Linux-based network utility. Just avoid the Linux/Toshiba external hard drive combo.

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Hard Drive Hygene: Downloads Zero

By Robert Fischer | Published: November 24, 2009

I recently blew my computer away and re-built everything from scratch. IA lot of cruft had built up, and instead of trying to scour my computer, I just punted and started all over. One of the things I’ve done is adopted a kind of “Downloads Zero” approach (akin to “Inbox Zero“): I had built up [...]

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Two Applications Everyone Should Be Running

By Robert Fischer | Published: October 31, 2009

If you’ve got a computer and it’s got some spare clock cycles/bandwidth/memory (which is almost certainly true), then you really should be running the following programs. This is “should” in the sense of “you should feed the poor”. Tor — This system provides anonymity online. Even if you don’t use it yourself, running a server [...]

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