The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. Instead of altering their views to fit the facts, they alter the facts to fit their views…which can be very uncomfortable if you happen to be one of the facts that needs altering. –Doctor Who (confirm attribution)
Companies are like evolving living organisms. Think of the dotcoms – they are the genetic offspring of business and the internet – two different families in the genetic hierarchy of “things”. They areimpacted by their environment (which businesses and the Internet are also kind of a part of… maybe not entirely unlike nature/nurture), but also by microorganisms like employees. Employees certainly represent the cells and systems of the business organism, but also viruses that impact the development of the organism. That may lead to the collapse (“extinction”?) of certain types of, or even individual businesses, as viral organisms overtake them and make them unfit for survival in their environment. Interesting train of thought, could easily develop into an entire post of its own.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1037918 and to a lesser/secondary extent http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1041077 Fascinate ROMs on Mesmerize. Radio improvements. Better 3G speeds, faster GPS lock?
Well done Nokia “Your decision to partner with Microsoft is as sage and wise as allowing your balls to be shaved by a mental patient.” DrXym (126579), /. Comment #35906170
Olympic National Park
http://www.static-cisco.com/assets/sol/ent/cin/technology_pcast.xml Need to read up on how to properly do podcast, look to see if there are any good android apps to auto-download and arrange, and find my tunecaster.
http://www.politicsforum.org/images/flame_warriors/index.php
Voluntary Simplicity by Duane Elgin
n2h2p on sourceforge – finally, a way to convert a proxy to allow URL filtering on Cisco routers.
Thoughts on changing passwords daily (possibly multiple times daily) on any non-personally owned systems. There are a couple of potential pluses for this thought: if your password is ever compromised, or if it is subpoena’ed for any purpose, it has likely already changed by the time an attempt is made on the account. Cons: incredibly unwieldy to manage for multiple or all accounts; would have to be managed by an automated process on a personally owned system, with a method to sync/provide the updated password to end user in real time; providers might see as suspicious; tracking what characters are allowed in passwords for what providers; managing password resets if required (and syncing back to the changer controller, as it would have to know a changed password in order to be able to update it).
http://www.aviary.com/ – like an online Photoshop
http://designfestival.com/the-cicada-principle-and-why-it-matters-to-web-designers/and the related previous article on CSS seamless tiles.
“But I will accept any rules that you feel necessary to your freedom. I am free, no matter what rules l surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; If I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am responsible for everything I do.” (“The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress”, 1966) Heinlein?
http://dev.pulsed.net/wp/ Interesting projects.
http://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html Great story
Good link describing CWM Red and how to load:
Link to AOSP v0.9 with instructions:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=995220
My world is eventful at present, and it seems to be preventing me from properly accomplishing much of anything. Last Saturday my wife and I got new cell phones, finally extricating ourselves from Verizon (don’t get me started…). US Cellular has done well for us thus far – my wife has already had a support issue, and it was handled to resolution in a courteous manner. My experience with Verizon was always courteous, but never resolved. As part of this, I finally have an Android phone – very exciting, and I am enjoying it a great deal. I have loaded the Froyo pre-release ROM, and it’s doing fairly well. Haven’t had enough time to really play in detail (phone is the Samsung Mesmerize… another good reason to get away from Verizon; no locked down, eFuse Moto’s here :)). Was hoping to port my old Verizon number to my Google Voice account since they are now allowing porting of mobile numbers, but it appears that BFE Nebraska is not on their list of locations which they can support porting from. So, I will have to see if US Cell can port it to my new phone post hoc. Wish me luck :/.
Have also been trying to get the WordPress app for Android to work with my blog, but that doesn’t seem to be happening just yet. Had some issues with the client on my BlackBerry as well, so I think the finger currently points at the hosting provider configuration and not the phone(s). Will work on that when (if?) I get the time. Will also get back to my experimentation and testing of LxC’s hopefully sooner than later. However, with my wife in Chicago from Saturday through Monday and myself on parent duty, it will probably be later rather than sooner.
Did experiment a little bit with the live disc for Clonezilla recently. Acquired a bunch of systems, some of which will be finding new homes as soon as I can get them finished. For the handful that came with drives, I had built a Windows image on one of them and tested replicating it to others. Since the systems were all of similar-to-near-identical configuration, imaging was surprisingly fantastic and generally fast. Imaging to a test VirtualBox on my daily driver Ubuntu box didn’t work quite as well, but I suspect there were a number of factors impacting that including 32-vs-64-bit processor config. Again, something to worry about later since the actual PCs did great. Kudos to Clonezilla on that one.
Have been looking at some of the descendants of FreeS/WAN recently, specifically StrongSwan (don’t bite me on the case tonight, I’m friggin’ tired!). Looks neat, and I was hopeful to get a chance to run a test drive with it. Don’t think that will actually happen unless I can somehow get it done tomorrow night (yeah, right). May perhaps do so at home if I get the time. It has pushed me to a somewhat better understanding of IPSec (I think), especially Main Mode vs Quick Mode. I will continue to look at it and hope to at least make it work in a lab environment in case I ever have need of it in the future. My current direction, as a result of tight time constraints, is probably going to be the ASR series of Cisco routers if their licensing proves tolerable, and something in the 7206 G2/VSA category if not. I’m hearing 1.8Gbps throughput on those boys at the low end (though I assume that’s with 1400 byte packets, it’s still quite something).
Anyway, have to call it for tonight and work on some POs. Just really needed to get some of what was going on out of my head and down on “paper”. There is something at least mildly therapeutic about writing 🙂
It has been an interesting day. I received a CR-48 laptop/netbook from Google today. Apparently they have selected me to participate in their Chrome OS beta and testing. So far I’m enjoying it and haven’t really encountered any significant problems (though I do miss some of the text editing features of vi… regular expression based find and replace would have made it more convenient to do some editing in my wiki… but that’s not really a “normal” user feature). The right-clicking and scrolling features are certainly a little bit difficult, and I could potentially see everyday users who don’t spend as much time on a PC as I do having some issues with those. It will definitely be a change in my work habits if I end up using it extensively. I’ve found a utility to do some “cloud” photo editing at www.pixlr.com, which seemed to work well for the basic edit I did
It's not the steamrollers, but the backhoes!
(it’s not the steamrollers, Google, it’s the backhoes that worry us – especially when you’re depending on the cloud!). The touch pad is very large indeed, and I find myself bumping it if I do any significant amount of typing. Surprisingly, for as odd as the keyboard would seem, it’s really pretty comfortable (at least to this extent, because this is the most I’ve typed with it so far).
An interesting tie-in, I received an e-mail late this afternoon regarding doing a webinar – which should to an extent preclude me from the CR-48, even as apt as it is for such things. Geeks and their toys, though. I found an interesting open source product called WebHuddle that I plan to do some testing with on one of the new Core 2 Duo systems I’ve acquired. I’ve also found a great interest in LXC (Linux containers) recently and have been playing with that for virtualization. Haven’t actually got one booted yet, but I’m very much looking forward to testing out a Diaspora instance on one – especially since they have migrated from Mondo to MySQL!
Also doing some looking at Nagios again after a long separation. The text file configuration got to be too much to manage, but my current monitoring solution is starting to look expensive again as I consider tripling (or more) the number of nodes I monitor with it. Especially when you take into consideration that I really don’t take good advantage of all the features that are available, and some very simple monitors in Nagios should handle very adequately. I still really, really want to do some things to automate host addition, and I think something along the lines of Puppet could work well for that, but there’s no way I’m going to have time to get into playing with Puppet along with everything else on the docket right now. Anyway, got off on a tangent that I meant to finish on the Core 2’s, unfortunately haven’t found any of my new ones yet that will support the VT-x extensions I’d really like to use for some bare-metal hypervisor virtualization experimentation. Worst case, I guess at some point in the future I’ll have to break down and purchase a C2D or C2Q that does support them.
Probably enough typing for tonight, but had to pop a quick entry with all the exciting stuff lately.
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