Archive for: April 2004

Today, I cleaned out my work inbox and many of my stored folders on the work email server in order to brace for the onslaught of email I won’t read while I’m not working for the next two weeks. I …

In no more than 5 days now, my wife will be giving birth to our second child, which is supposed to be a girl according to a couple of different ultrasound techs. Of course, they could be wrong and all …

I’ve always disliked sites that rely on Internet Explorer exclusively. Finally, someone has written a succinct, well-reasoned article on why this is a bad idea. Jim Raposa writes in eWeek:

What I inevitably hear in response or in …

Qemu is a “fast” processor emulator that uses dynamic translation to achieve usable system speeds. Qemu either works as a user-mode emulation, primarily to run Linux binaries compiled on a different CPU, or as a system mode emulation …

Quite some time ago, my wife “tired” of me deciding that my firewall needed rebooting, reconfiguring in the late hours of the evening. I finally got tired of the complaints and said: you’re getting your own router. I needed a …

Having take advantage of WiFi today, I can see why people like it, security issues be damned. I’m currently sitting on my couch in the living room writing this blog entry. Sure, I could do that before with the big …

I now remember why I shut down my Wifi — it’s a pain in the ass to secure properly, at least with most consumer-grade equipment. I have two particular Access Points, a Nexland WaveBase, which has almost no security in …

It’s been a while since I’ve turned on WiFi (802.11) here at home, but it looks like I’m going to have a reason to use it here shortly: I’m going to be testing some WiFi-enabled equipment. It means unmothballing my …

I’m not sure exactly when it “officially” started — I guess it was last week when Marcelo said “let’s formalize our relationship,” but I’m now part of Voxilla. My “job” as it were is to help build their forums, generate …

For those of you who subscribe to the “Six Degrees of Separation” theory (i.e. any two people on the earth are separated by no more than 6 “friends of friends,” to see an example of this, visit the …