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Linux Mint 19 and Yubikey

I recently upgraded Linux Mint from version 18 (18.3) to 19 (19.1). After the upgrade, my Yubikey USB device stopped working in Chrome. I was getting an "Unexpected error" message in a red box in the 2FA widget in our organization's federated login page. Originally, I thought this

Code School

Code schools are popping up everywhere. There are at least 8 in the Seattle area. I've also seen more discussion about code schools in mainstream media (one of our local TV stations), podcasts, and blog posts. Community colleges are also stepping up their learn-to-code programs. There seems to be demand

wget and robots.txt

A web application I was hired to fix was experiencing a number of unhandled exceptions. After adding error logging to capture the exceptions for review, I noticed that one of the exceptions was triggered every time a web crawler hit the site. I added a robots.txt file to the

QRZ.com Amateur Radio Call Sign Lookup Accelerator for Internet Explorer

UPDATE: Accelerators are no longer supported on Internet Explorer. I'll keep this post around for historical purposes. I created an accelerator for IE 8 and later that enables you to lookup amateur radio call signs on QRZ.com. To install the accelerator, click on the following link, turn on the