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New track I found a few weeks back. Excellent for late night coding sessions. Group is named Perasma, and from what I can tell they are a couple guys out of Greece.

Jenn and Joe are now upgraded to the same rev as me for their blogs. Yea.
In other news… Ripcord is knawing on my leg again. I think it may be time to start working on the suite once more.

‘Intelligent design’ comes to science class

Here is a quote from the article:

Biology teacher Jennifer Miller said although she was able to make a smooth transition to her evolution lesson after the statement was read, some students were upset that administrators would not entertain any questions about intelligent design.

“They were told that if you have any questions, to take it home,” Miller said.

Seems like they already understand that this should be discussed in the home and in the church, so why play the games? Interesting isn’t it. What I find truly amusing is the footing people put creation on without understanding the scientific method. It isn’t like you can go “interview” God to ask him how he did it and why.

Found this most interesting MacGyver moment walking to lunch today.
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In typical “helpful” MS fashion, they have helped the world by taking down the site of one of the best ani spyware vendors. Since the link is gone to the download, you can get it from here:
Giant Antispyware

On a drive over to reno this weekend, I discovered an interesting sight. I found a tree and landscape completely covered in frost gowth. It kind of looked like someone had ripped up a bunch of post cards and the stuck them in the branches of everything.

Upon closer look, I discovered that this one tree had astounding frost growth on it measuring in at over 8 inches in places.

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I’ve been working with HP trying to figure out what we can do here about these phones. It is not a simple problem. Most hardware can deal with multi-link loopback conditions using technology like spanning tree, but how the hell do you handle a loopback on the same link? It is technically impossible to do unless you actually go ahead and create a cable with shorted out pins, or litterally looped the wires back into the connector. It is not condition you would normally ever see by accident.

So far I have had limited success. Spanning tree has been usefull in limiting how many loopbacks I get on the switch. It will shut down all loopbacked ports except one. The second step was to turn on flood control (throttling). This keeps the ports from shutting down the entire switch with broadcast storms.

The final solution is to get HP to patch the switch to sense this insane condition and shut down the port. I have no idea when I will get that.

This is another fun photo. Take a good look at the signage

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I’m moving into a scary time now. My boss is on medical leave for a month while I’m alone maintaining our network. We have two positions open… Anyone want a job?

It will suck being with out her for so long. I have to say that she is easily the best boss I can ever hope to have.

If you answered yes, then I am living your wish. I don’t know how long it can last, but I’m enjoying it while I can. Here’s to hoping she makes a speedy recovery!

Go take a look at these photos…

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