Colin Cogle's Blog

This is how your grandfather logged contacts.

The Problem Perhaps it's apartment life cramping my HF style, but I've been into APRS ever since I got into ham radio.

WARNING: This does not work.

Foreword and Forewarning Some things only happen once in a lifetime; it's rarer still to have so many lifetimes involved.

Introduction Let's talk about SSH.

A bus in downtown Hartford announces the resumption of fares beginning April 1, 2023.

We'll have you looking PoSH in no time.

The toot that started it all.

(This was first published in 2600: The Hacker Quarterly, Volume 39:2 (pp. 7-8).

On a whim, I thought it'd be funny to change my randomly-assigned amateur radio callsign from KC1HBK to W1DNS.

When I found a non-working UniFi Cloud Key Gen2 Plus on eBay for 99 cents, I decided, why not?

A Review of SSH Fingerprints SSH servers all have fingerprints to identify themselves.

A Brief History of Intel The x86 ISA has been around since the late 1970's.

(This article was first published in the Summer 2021 issue of 2600: The Hacker Quarterly.

Microsoft's PowerShell Team and countless members of the open-source community have worked hard on crafting and coding the seventh major version of PowerShell.

If you think of email as a letter in an envelope, DKIM would be the wax seal.

For almost a year, the ink has been dry on Public Act 18-50, also known by its more phlegmatic name, An Act Concerning Connecticut's Energy Future.

Backstory Ever since I got my amateur radio license back in 2017, I've taken an interest in APRS, the Automatic Packet Reporting System, which allows hams to use a radio or an Internet connection to share useful data on a map, such as location tracking and

Written by Colin Cogle.

While voters were asleep hours before sunrise on May 9, Senate Bill 9 passed our House.

This article was originally published in the May 2018 issue of The Quinnehtukqut.

Mayor David Gronbach (far right) poses with The Committee to Ban Fracking Waste from New Milford and townsfolk who testified at the Town Council meeting in support of the ordinance.

Warning: It's 2021.