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G5 unsick

After one month and one day in repair, my g5 is finally back in action. The problem was that it would spontaneously reboot when under moderate to heavy CPU load. I deduced that it was a cooling problem by manually … Continue reading

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This is going to sound hopelessly nerdy. I fed my first patch back to the open source community today! It’s for this app called imapproxy, designed to sit between webmail apps and imap servers and do connection caching. It was … Continue reading

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Going to PA for the July 4th weekend for a shindig with the extended fam. Should be fun as I haven’t seen most of them for quite a while The book I contributed to (the firewall chapter) is finally shipping, … Continue reading

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teh new comptar

the g5 is pretty rad.

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New Headphones

+ = yum :) props to damon for the fine recommendations.

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Public Service Announcements

I say this every time there is a major os x revision, but I think I’ll say it louder this time. If you’re upgrading to tiger, back up your home directory and other essentials, and then: DO A CLEAN INSTALL … Continue reading

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Obligatory mention…

Oh yes… It will be mine. In 5 to 7 days, via teh snail mail. Woot! In other news, returning to active status in the quake3 urban terror clan I helped found many months ago is a hoot. Matches on … Continue reading

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SprintPCS for internet access

So I went ahead and purchased the data cable and an extra battery from cellphoneshop.net, pretty decent prices, though delivery took a little while. My phone is a samsung A660. There are full instructions here, but really all it requires … Continue reading

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Product Endorsement

Geek alert, in the form of a quiz. Question: What is unusual about this tcpdump output (and no, it’s not that my workstation is called pimp): (note: displaying that as html requires this, if you ever need it)

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ja womp

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