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All things Geeky.

Making a Home WiFi Network faster

July 24, 2017March 19, 2018 Malcolm GinGeek, Geek-as-a-Trade, Networking

My friend Deb came by yesterday and after some fiddling we got her computer on my wired Ethernet network, which…

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About Pupusas

December 16, 2016March 19, 2018 Malcolm Gin3 Comments on About PupusasFood, Geek, Restaurants, Salvadoran

Said I on some social medium somewhere, “If you ever come to California and find yourself driving ‘the 5’ (highway…

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Tools

December 16, 2016March 19, 2018 Malcolm GinGeek, Geek-as-a-Trade, Math, Science, Statistics

Just a note: I’d like to thank the freeware program, Lyx, for helping create LaTeX markup for various mathy-sciency things…

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Statistics – This could be you! – Bayesian Conditional Probability and Medical Tests

December 16, 2016June 4, 2018 Malcolm GinGeek, Probability, Science, Statistics

As many of you know, I’m taking, for career change and self improvement, a certified curriculum offered by Columbia University…

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MacBook Pro slow shutdown (macOS Sierra)

December 14, 2016December 14, 2016 Malcolm GinApple, Geek, Geek-as-a-Trade, Homebrew, Ruby, SIP

Just a quick tech note. If you have macOS Sierra and you’re a coding/geeky/programming type and your OS is taking…

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Upgrading MediaWiki

January 25, 2016January 26, 2016 Malcolm GinGeek, Geek-as-a-Trade, MediaWiki, Security

Just a note about a day in the life of a geek. This all starts with the fact that I…

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The notability of $latex (82,000)_{10}$

August 13, 2015December 4, 2015 Malcolm GinGeek, Math, Science, Statistics

The title is meant to read , but WordPress’s Jetpack Plugin’s Beautiful Math component doesn’t execute latex markup in the…

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Home Networking 3 – A review of the basics

June 6, 2015 Malcolm GinGeek, Networking

This writeup is inspired by the remote geek consulting I’m doing for my sweetie while she’s visiting Mom and trying…

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Visual Rhetoric – Some feedback for MSNBC

June 6, 2015 Malcolm GinGeek, Science, Statistics, Visual Rhetoric

Over the years, MSNBC has been using and reusing a particular visual rhetorical style for presenting job growth numbers since…

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Misascribed – Chinese things

May 24, 2015May 24, 2015 Malcolm GinGeek, Scholarship

Fire drills, whispers, curses, checkers – since I’m half Chinese, I know how often these things get misattributed to folks…

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Measuring and Calibration – Science Geek Series

May 10, 2015 Malcolm GinGeek, Kitchen, Measurement, Science, Statistics

A lot of bakers and chefs and chemists will tell you that they’re in the same business. So, in a…

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Reporting Issues – Geek-as-a-Trade series

April 17, 2015 Malcolm GinGeek, Geek-as-a-Trade

One of the geeky intersections I have in personal and professional geekery is that of reporting issues. Sometimes this is…

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Philosophy and Introduction – Geek-as-a-Trade series

April 9, 2015April 9, 2015 Malcolm GinGeek, Geek-as-a-Trade

I’ve been a geek all my life. My work, my play, my housekeeping all involve geeking at some level. While…

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Mirror

April 9, 2015April 9, 2015 Malcolm GinGeek, Knife Sharpening, Knives

It wasn’t until I’d been sharpening knives for more than 40 years that I figured out that the sharpest knife…

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WordPress, Security, Hacking, Recovering from a Hack, and General Discussion

April 8, 2015April 8, 2015 Malcolm GinGeek, Security

Sounds like another round of WordPress blog hackings are making the rounds. I had my two WordPress blogs hacked by…

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Home Networking 2 – WiFi versus hard lines

April 7, 2015April 8, 2015 Malcolm GinGeek, Networking

Here we discuss network design from the point of view of WiFi versus hard line links within the household.

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Home Networking 1

April 7, 2015April 8, 2015 Malcolm GinGeek, Networking

I recently upgraded my home network by buying, configuring and installing a hobbyists’ “performance” router, the Edge Router LITE from…

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