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 Firefox has started to drag its feet as of late.  A buggy interface, slower than normal browsing, leaky memory, and abrupt failures have become the rule rather than the exception it seems...Chrome was a bit buggy at first but seems to have resolved that issue and is all over 7's new taskbar; IE8 is still somewhat harder to work with but doesn't crash anymore and is faster than previous IE's.  Firefox has dropped the ball, possibly for the last time...

A recent study coming out of MIT may have just put into serious question the findings of several climate models with observed data.  This not only brings into question the models but also a longstanding assumption about carbon's effect on the atmosphere.

So my fan on my laptop started making a horrific racket (possibly because my laptop has been on nearly half of its existence) so I found a way to clock the CPU down so the fan wouldn't need to be on. Here are the commands I used.

Performance Script:

powercfg /CHANGE PowerConfigName /processor-throttle-ac ADAPTIVE

powercfg /CHANGE PowerConfigName /processor-throttle-dc ADAPTIVE

Had this on my old site which I recently took down so I've attached it to this blog post.  Here's how to use it:
 

Electric cars are viable in terms of capacity on the grid, but I personally can't wait for people to start dumping their McClaren's and Shelby Mustangs on the market to better afford their Tesla replacements.

People will always fear death, including myself, and will be willing to undergo great cost, great stress, and even go into debt paying to live another day.

What I'm trying to say in this article is that Mac's for all their hype are just another FUCKING computer with a bigger price tag. All you're effectively paying for is branding and maybe a little extra engineering. However, this price discrepancy amounted to around $325 dollars when warranties weren't considered and you have to ask yourself if Mac's are $325 better engineered than a PC.

SSH  slow and seemingly not responding?  I recently had this issue and was surprised at how common it was.  To further add to the litany of solutions, I figured I'd repost it again.  If your ssh seems slow ESPECIALLY right after submitting the password, add this line:

UseDNS no

to the file:

/etc/ssh/sshd_config

This happened to me (and likely others) because I switched to a static IP on my local network so I could reliably forward the ssh port to the right computer.  With a dynamic ip, most routers send the hostname to your computer, but when y

Here are a couple simple encryption programming examples.  Obviously these are full of exploits so you wouldn't want to use them seriously, but they are great for teaching students about the basic idea of encryption.