They’re getting their last chance. Morons took me down with their last config fix by re-enabling the blocking of port-80 when they uploaded the most recent “cure-all” config to the modem. Mental note: If anyone ever tries to hand you an SMC 8013 or SMC8014 cable modem, run, don’t walk, in the opposite direction. They …
April 2007 archive
Apr 26
Stress…
the state of mind when the mind over-rides the body’s basic desire to choke the living crap out of someone who desparately needs it. Anyway, enough about my day. Some of you may have noticed the site going up and down lately. if you’d like, you can blame the nice folks at Comcast Communications, whose …
Apr 12
Veritas Media Server Encryption Option…
So the biggest problem with Veritas, is that their client-side encryption option, which is the standard deployment, negates the use of Veritas Bare-Metal-Restore (BMR). For those who aren’t Veritas geeks like me, BMR is the handy-dandy application that allows you to rebuild a server from scratch using only a floppy (or bootable CD) with little …
Apr 12
SRDF woes….
Ok, for about 4 months I’ve had an SRDF problem that has been kicking my ass. SRDF over Ethernet presents a host of new problems, unique to Ethernet. First, and mostly – the RE adapters want to see *ALL* of the remote adapters in the RDF group. That means if you have four RDF/Ethernet (RE) …
Apr 09
Hybrid tales.
Just for those of you who would like a break from storage. I hacked into my Prius and added a few options: 1. Removed the safeties from the bluetooth and radio so I can dial the goddamned phone using the keypad and no longer have to dial using the phone when the number isn’t in …
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