To anticipate and prevent
So I’m setting up a testing network in side the office network. The front end is a machine running debian. Its running shorewall, squid, bind9, dhcpd, pptpd, etc (you get the idea). The test net is routed through the debian machine — so I can bring on new random machines and make sure they dont…
Yesterday I was talking to my mother and I mentioned how I was watching the freeway camera’s (since I _had_ to drive on this Holiday weekend — I was going to see what I was in for first). I was also doing flight tracking — another amazement. I thought this was ‘normal’ webstuff and easy…
I’ve been reading the news this morning when I came across two intresting (and related) articles. First was U.S. keeps control of Internet computers by CNN and the other was US won’t let go of master domain servers by ZDnet AU. The headlines alone make it sound like the US runs the internet, Or more…
So with the release of Itunes 4.9 I’ve been listening to a number of Podcasts. While I was never a fan of this “podcasting” thing before — Itunes makes it simple and nice. On the iPod if you center click on normal songs a few times — it would allow you to “rate” the song…
Aparently Averatec & ATI are in cahoots w/ each other. ATI refuses to provide any drivers for the Mobility Radeon 9600 I have in this machine. I’m sorry, even if the machines are specalized, they should at leave have a generic copy of their mobility drivers. Basically what ATI said to me is that they’d…
The title is self explanitory. IF you were thinking about buying an Averatec notebook (laptop) computer — DONT DO IT. I have a 6100 — As I have mentioned before — And it needs new drivers. Most companies release new drivers every few months — well — Its been 9 months since I bought my…