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A collection of 15 posts

Sarah Palin's Debate Flow Chart

As an ex-speech & debater in high school, I got a real kick out of this flow chart passed on to me by a co-worker:

How to test IDS/IPS Hardware?

Recently, someone asked this question on the IDS email list: Hi guys, Can you please give me some reference or links on how to test IPS/IDS hardware box. Clearly this person hasn’t read Eric Raymond’s How To Ask Questions the Smart Way. Later on he tried to

Who really invented the MacBook Air?

Take a hint people...

This says it all:

NBC: Not Bright Correspondent

“A LOT OF MAKEUP can make you prettier, but it won’t make you smarter. Michelle Madigan, Associate Producer for Dateline NBC found this out the hard way at Defcon.” What I don’t get is that Madigan knew going into DefCon that her secret was blown. The conference administrators

Trying to buy a home

So my wife and I found a nice home up in the Santa Cruz Mountains which we really liked. Since Murphy’s Law is in effect, the owners had to be TCHOFH (The Crazy Home Owners From Hell). Anyways, rather then trying to explain the long and drawn out process,

How not to treat developers

I’m not sure what happened last week, but it seems that the difficult users all decided to come out of the woodwork all at once. Maybe it had something to do with the phase of the moon or the change in daylight savings time? For those of you not

When UPS's fail

Yes, synfin.net was offline for about 8-1/2 hours due to my UPS failing. Oh the irony! Not sure why it’s dead, but it won’t even supply power when plugged into AC. So, everything hooked up to my UPS (my firewall and server) went offline just after

How not to find great employees

I won’t name any names, but I came across a job posting which required two rather highly sought-after skills in today’s market, neither of which is particularly common. They were very specific about what a great job it was, how you would be worked like a dog, and

Murphy gets me again...

Yep… I do the first release of tcpreplay in nearly a year and what happens? I find out that it has a huge bug which probably prevents it from compiling on anyone’s computer except my development box. *sigh* Anyways, 3.0.beta9 is out so go get it. On

Headhunters!

Got a phone call from a headhunter yesterday. I’m not sure if this is really a rant or just funny watching the headhunter squirm, I’ll let you decide. Conversation went sorta like this: Me: Hello? HH: Hi, is this Aaron? Me: Yes, who is this? HH: Hi Aaron,

This is my badge...

I came across a fun email from an ex-coworker and friend at a privious company shortly after that company changed it’s badge policy to be, shall we say, “more strict”. mercy!!! have mercy on me!!! i wore my badge in the *shower* this morning! I AM A MAN!!!! I

22 years of years in computer systems engineering and operation...

Apparently doesn’t mean a whole lot! This is a great little example of how no good deed goes unpunished. Thanks to Linux Weekly News for that link.

Dad! Tom Cruise won't come out of the closet!

So let me get this straight… it’s ok for South Park (one of my favorite shows on TV) to make fun of Christians, Jews, Muslims and Mormons, but when they make fun of Scientology (which is more cult then religion) all of a sudden Comedy Central pulls re-airing the

Oops!

A simple story which should give any geek pause for concern before helping his mother use this internet thingy.