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Rearranging the homestead

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Published on: March 23, 2005

Well I have rearranged my home, freeing up some room in the center of the place, it looks bigger now, I have also did some cleaning of the APT, maybe some time I will finally get around to doing a video tour of the place for my friends and family. I still do not know[…]

The VPN

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Published on: March 21, 2005

So far as it stands I have not finished working with the VPN yet. I have made some progress, I know which type of VPN I want, and how I am going to do it, I now just have to recompile the Linux kernel to get the stuff I want done, I have not done[…]

This weekends goal

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Published on: March 18, 2005

This weekend I am hoping to be able to start reading the VPN book I got at the cplug security conference, and maybe have some thing setup so I can have full access to my home network and shutdown all the other ports I have open up at home, I am thinking the few ports[…]

The Duct Tape ball

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Published on: March 18, 2005

My cousin Michael Skoviera is working to make the worlds largest Duct Tape Ball. Michael S. I wish you luck, just make sure it does not break lose and cause havoc all over the US!

The iTMS

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Published on: March 17, 2005

I had an interesting dialog box pop up on iTunes today, I got some Celtic Hymns today, and more then I care to admit here. When it finished downloading the music it popped up a dialog box with the following message “Your Music is important, Please back it up”. I was kind of taken aback[…]

USB jump drives

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Published on: March 16, 2005

I have to admit I like the USB jump drives that are coming out. At first I kind of resisted them because I was hoping that the SD cards and card readers would be what replaced floppy drives, but I am not blind and I can see that it is the USB jump drives that[…]

Old scuba pictures

Categories: Play, Web Site
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Published on: March 10, 2005

I have just uploaded some old pictures scuba pictures that I took back in 1995 in Australia and I have put them in my photo section of my site. These are old pictures that were taken with a disposable waterproof camera. Then scanned into the computer only a few months ago. These are not the[…]

Taxes what a pain

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Published on: March 9, 2005

More pain then normal. First I ordered TurboTax back in Nov, well I never got the software, so I call back in Jan. Still I did not get the software. So I call back again today. This time I ask since there has been a major problem with the shipping of the software, if they[…]

Planet WPLUG

Categories: Geekdom, Web Site
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Published on: March 9, 2005

One of our member of wplug is working on a new aggregate of the blogs of members of wplug you can see the test page at http://wm-eddie.info/planet/. He has said it will be moved to planet.wplug.org some time in the future. It could be fun to see what “wplug” is thinking in any given day.[…]

Napster’s commercial

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Published on: March 9, 2005

I am starting to get really annoyed at the napster commercial, first they are annoying to beginning with, and I am going to go as far to they are engaging in false advertising. Yes it will cost 10K to full fill up the size iPod they are talking about. Also they may cost only $15[…]

I must be boring

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Published on: March 8, 2005

I must be boring, I just finished watching NOVA on WQED (Pittsburgh’s PBS) on string theory and I find it very interesting. It is kind of interesting to see the current thoughts on how the universe physically works. And I am watching it while I do some work I brought home that I want to[…]

Pictures from the CPLUG Security Conference

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Published on: March 7, 2005

You can see the few pictures I took at the CPLUG conference on saterday here, in the CPLUG picture page

CPLUG’s Security conference

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Published on: March 6, 2005

On Saturday I went out with some friends of mine from WPLUG (Western PA Linux User Group) to CPLUG’s (Central PA Linux User Group) Security Conference. It was pretty good; I found one of the more interesting talks was from a PA trooper on the PA cyber crime laws. They seemed to be well written,[…]

Stupid kiddy scripters

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Published on: March 4, 2005

Well today was “fun” my computer (laptop) was hacked into by some one, I assume it was just some stupid kiddy scripter. Why do I say it was probably just a stupid kiddy scripter, was because the stuff that was put on. A ftp server was put on, so it makes me think it was[…]

Spammers are idiots

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Published on: February 24, 2005

Ok in my inbox today got two of those Nigeria scams today, normaly I just delete them but for some reason I was so board I read them for the humor factor. The first was for a lotory I never entered WOW I won 500,000GBP wow 😉 I can not belive that there are people[…]

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