One of the internet radio stations I like has started to do pod casting. The station is KFUO, and the radio show I really like is Issues Etc. It will be nice since I can not listen to it in full live, I can now at lest have it downloaded automatically to my computer and[…]
I just tried to compile the kernel of BSD, and I got linker errors, I have never gotten an error on the linker while compiling a kernel, what is up with the BSD kernel?? I would love to spend the time figuring this beast out, but I don’t really have the time for that, I[…]
I am trying to get the BSD system going, and it not working as well as I has hoped. It does not see my network card, and if I can not get it to see the network card I will have to bail on the BSD idea. I would like to use BSD for it,[…]
I am back working on the VPN now; I am looking at putting a BSD flavor on it. From what I can get form some of my friends on wplug, I might be going with FreeBSD and see how it goes, that is the nice thing about getting another unused computer for the server, you[…]
Well three things have happened as of late that made me think about how we keep our pictures today. I was in the past the only way to lose your memories (pictures) was to a disaster such as a flood or a fire. Now we don’t only have that to worry about, but we have[…]
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 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[…]
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[…]
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[…]
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[…]
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,[…]
I don’t know about others, but I would be afraid of a medicine developed by Microsoft, I don’t want any parts of my body to crash like their OS crashes. I can just imagine it now, some one is driving down the road after getting some medication helped devolved by MS and then their brain[…]
I just looked at the web logs for my web site, and found some one came in for a search “Michael O’Connor” normally I am use to my web site being hit #1 for “Michael P. O’Connor” but I never thought that I would get in the top 10 on Google for just “Michael O’Connor”[…]
Today I have noticed google really crawling my web site like it has never been before, I seen the googlebot coming from 6 IP address. It is also going to pages that google has not crawling before; the Photo section of my site google has never done before now there are 6 of their bots[…]
That was no fun I tried to upgrade the blog software I am using since the new once has image verification to stop spam bots. Well it did not work that well, I am just glad I did make a full backup of my blog before I started I just blasted the database and the[…]
So far this year we have gotten some great JRPGs Persona 3 ReloadedShin Megami Tensei V: VengeanceLike a Dragon: Infinite Wealth And there are still more coming, coming on the 5th of July the one I am most hyped for The Legend of Heroes: Trails through Daybreak and latter this year we are getting Metaphor:[…]
Today I weighed myself and came in at 130 pounds. When I started I set a goal of 125 pounds. So only 5 more pounds to go. I am a long way from where I started, I started at 300 pounds on March 31, 2022, it been about 15 months since I started this diet.[…]
With summer coming buy, and me still on my diet, I came up with a snack, I have always enjoyed popsicals, so what I am doing now, is I am taking those water enhancers that say they have 0 calories and use that as the flavor for my popsicals, and I have some popsical makers.[…]
For my friends I did a video to show my friends how I have my apartment setup, because I did some changes to the living room and the bedroom. Here is the video
Posting a new updated before and after picture. First one was taken in 2021, the second picture Just this last weekend.
March 31, 2022 was the day I hit 300 pounds and decided to loss weight, today I weigh in at 135 pounds. To date I have lost 165 pounds. My goal still remains 125 pounds, so I only have 10 more pounds to go. I feel so much better, later on I will post a[…]
Today I did some meal preping for this week. Cooking both in slow cookers. First dish, is a ham and veggie soup contianing Ham Potatos Celery Spinish Carrots Onions Veggie Stock With the amount of stuff and what I put in it, the whole slow cooker has about 1200 cals in it, this should make[…]
Today I did my daily steping on the scale this morning, it read 140 now. So since I started my diet last March, I have lost a total of 160 pounds, and only 15 more pounds to go, till I can start working on keeping the weight off. But I been feeling a lot better[…]
Today, when I did my morning weight in my scale read 143 pounds, so to date I have lost 157 pounds. And now I have only 18 more pounds to go.
In the past I have used a 4G T-Mobile hotspot, that was costing me about 50 a month for 10GB of data. But for that same 50 I could get T-Mobiles home internet. So I cancled the hotspot line and added the Home Internet for my backup internet. First they say there is no data[…]
