Joe Russell

Android Fitness App

joe — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 06:53:14 +0000

My gym membership recently expired and I decided not to renew it. Without a membership, I have been working out at home. I get a well-balanced mix of exercises including: pushups, pullups, dips, and situps. It would be nice to have a way to automatically track not only the sets and reps of these workouts, [...]

Timing Attacks

joe — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 06:41:32 +0000

For a group research study in an Information System’s security class, we decided to research timing attacks. Timing attacks are a type of side-channel attack where timing the execution of a process allows you to learn something about that process. Timing attacks can be used to find passwords, message digests, or other information quickly on [...]

SEO Scraper

joe — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 03:04:05 +0000

In the SEO world some shops like to use the result to search ratio AKA “R/S Ratio” to help determine which keywords to pursue. This keyword metric compares the total results of a keyword in a Google search to the search volume of the keyword. Google has a tool that takes a keyword as input [...]

Using DNS to Forward All Subdomains

joe — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 09:08:07 +0000

DNS is used to translate domain names into IP addresses. If you have ever owned a domain name, you have probably had to mess with DNS at least a little bit. In this article, I will tell you about forwarding all of your subdomains using a wildcard in your A (Host) DNS records. Why: Here [...]

How to Flush Your Local DNS

joe — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 18:44:17 +0000

In this article, Joe Russell explains how to flush your local dns Why? DNS is used to translate a domain name into an ip address. As a webmaster you will probably change multiple settings within your DNS server while configuring your web sites. Whenever your OS needs to lookup a domain, it contacts a remote [...]

The Requested Operation Requires Elevation (Windows Vista)

joe — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:44:40 +0000

I’m Joe Russell, and in this article I will explain the “The requested operation requires elevation” message in Windows Vista. Why? In my days of tech support, I found a fast way to open the command prompt using (Windows key) + R, cmd, (ENTER). Since upgrading to Windows Vista, this has proven to be a [...]

YouTube Legal at BYU?

joe — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 17:40:21 +0000

The third most popular website on the internet has just been unblocked by Brigham Young University (BYU). YouTube has been blocked since Fall 2006. BYU blocked YouTube because students could access pornographic and adult content. They also claimed that BYU bandwidth should be used for academic purposes. YouTube uses much bandwidth, and in the University’s [...]

Hulu Desktop Beta

joe — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 10:43:36 +0000

Hulu has recently released “Hulu Desktop Beta” as a desktop alternative to using a web browser. Hulu is a website that provides on-demand streaming video of TV Shows, Movies, and clips. I do not own a television because of services like Hulu. I have been impressed with Hulu Desktop for the week I have been [...]

thejoerussell.com Opens Its Doors!

joe — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 04:41:34 +0000

Congratulations! I’m Joe Russell, and you have stumbled upon my personal website. A few things about myself and this site you may want to know: I am working on my masters degree in Information Systems at Brigham Young University This website is a tool to help me to learn linux Thejoerussell.com is currently being run [...]