Archive for: August 2005

My daytime employer is allowing me to purchase a Mac Mini. Yay! I didn’t get to get the high-end model. I just got the basic model with a 40gb HD and no built-in WiFi or Bluetooth, but at least I …

Any techie who lives either in the L.A. area, the SF Bay Area, or a few other select places knows the pull of the evil Frys Electronics.

Now I know that Frys is evil. Everyone who has been there …

Yup, looks like my daytime employer wants me to come down to the office again next week for training. It’s basically a day trip (leave and return the same day), but it means my commute to work is like five …

One of the problems about writing a blog that everyone reads is that, well, everyone reads it. This makes it difficult to write about things you might not want certain people to know. It is, however, an essential skill to …

One thing I wanted to do on Damn Small Linux (DSL) was get Skype loaded. Apparently, several key libraries are missing from DSL that prevent the latest Skype from running. Oh sure, an older 0.93 version is available from the …

A.k.a. Reagan Country, or just California.

As I write this, I am currently sitting between two people who both have iPods. One is an older man, likely in his 50s, the other is a young woman who is maybe in her

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I was at a birthday party with my son today and someone asked what the Bremerton-Seattle Ferry schedue was. Without a second thought, I whipped out my Nokia 9500 and looked it up. A few minutes later, I had an

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While I’m no longer maintaining the FireWall-1 FAQs and I’m not running a web-based forum anymore, I am maintaining the FireWall-1 Gurus mailing list. Not sure why, except that it fills a need and it’s relatively easy for me to …

Because, quite honestly, it was long overdue.

The main reason I started the FireWall-1 FAQs on phoneboy.com was because at the time, there was an obvious need for a public information source about FireWall-1. Check Point certainly wasn't providing …

This is a shot from outside the back porch of my wife’s family cabin out at Lake Morton.