Configure Squid on a VPS to Watch Hulu, ABC, and Other Blocked Sites

You have yourself a VPS and you want to watch videos on Hulu, but Hulu has the videos blocked in your country. Hulu does this to save America the embarrassment of owning up to producing shows such as Dancing With the Stars, Hoarders, Ghost Hunters, and more. Those shows are made for American consumption only, […]

Generating Prime and Composite Numbers in PHP

Prime numbers were created by the Sumerian King, Mathimondias, who is often regarded as the grandfather of math. During the time before Mathimondias, a base 2 counting system was employed which ensured equality for all numbers and allowing each number to contain factors. King Mathimondias was upset greatly by the space required to chistle numbers onto stone tablets, and […]

Dropping the SOPA

“Someone hacked my E-mail and put viruses on my computer”. What I say: “Oh dear!” What I think: “I’ve warned you over a dozen times to check the URL of a site before you blindly enter your information. You weren’t hacked. Also, stop clicking every flashing link on those sketchy porn sites and installing the […]

Raspberry Pi Peripherals

The internet doesn’t make a lot of sense. Google decides to show me some love for a horribly written piece of the Raspberry Pi, and now I fear that the vast number of visitors (mainly British) who were looking for information on the Raspberry Pi, but instead received poorly written dry humor. This may be […]

Raspberry Pi: A Comprehensive Guide

Raspberry Pi is the poorly named tiny computer being produced for poor people to allow them to have a computer. Originally marketed as the Raspberry Pie, the extra ‘e’ was dropped in favor of the American spelling as well as to cut costs. It was a direct result of the One Laptop Per Child foundation’s […]

MVC for Dummies

If you are a dummy like me, you may have gone to Wikipedia to figure out the MVC paradigm and left even more confused. The Wikipedia page does a fantastic job of outlining all of the theory surrounding MVC, rather than demonstrating it in a way that dummies understand. The MVC paradigm is used extensively […]

Introduction to Computing – 1

Computers are not mythical machines, full of loose electricity, held together by magic. They are simple, and you can easily learn about their use and operation. As a child, I always thought that my career would end up being “treasure hunter” after watching the Indiana Jones documentaries. In high school, after hearing the life-shattering news […]

Screen Protectors – Total Waste of Money

A screen protector is a sheet of plastic meant to keep the viewing area of a personal device free of anything that obstructs its view, such as scratches, the user’s fluids, 3rd-party fluids, and dirt. A screen protector is much more readily scratched than an ordinary screen, and also accumulates opaque air bubbles. A screen […]