Network Security

I’m playing with a handful of hand-me-down routers for my home network. I have a Netgear WGT624 - has some cool features including Stateful Packet Inspection (SPI), and hey - it looks cool. After an hour, it stopped routing. Once I pulled the power, it came back to life. Not a good sign.
My Netopia 3546 [...]

PC Hospital

I’ve gotten all of my systems up and running, now I have a guest box in the house - a friend dropped off her Compaq desktop system, an Intel i815 motherboard-ed 1.2 Ghz Celeron. I upped the memory from 128 MB to 512MB, cleaned off a couple of Trojan Horse programs, and cleaned up the [...]

Tired…

My son’s got a fever, so he’s waking up every couple of hours, and I got sucked into trying to get Windows running on a Dell Inspiron 3500 laptop. It’s a PII 366 with 192 megs of RAM, but should be fine running Word and Excel. The battery is in good shape, I can get [...]

Busywork

With retailers, you get whatever you can get done between peak periods. We have a lull between Christmas and Valentine’s day, and are making the most of it.
We’re in the midst of an Exchange 5.5 to 2003 cutover, and moved the first batch of mailboxes tonight. I loaded Exchange Service Pack 2, with the new [...]

Another Lost Bike

Edsel

Old rotting Edsel, Berkeley CA. Taken with my new “go everywhere” camera, the Pencam SD.

Saved for Google Posterity

come on, google! I dare ya to index this!
DreamHost has upgraded their servers to Debian “Sarge”, and Spamassassin is up to version 3. The older, “Woody”-based servers had Spamassassin 2.4. 2,4 was way too long in the tooth to be effective, and missed way too many SPAMs. The web-based “junk filter” [...]