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Sigbritt, 75, has world’s fastest internet connection
A 75 year old woman from central Sweden has been thrust into the IT history books – with the world’s fastest internet connection. Sigbritt L öthberg’s blistering 40 Gigabits per second connection means she can enjoy 1,500 high definition HDTV channels simultaneously or download a full high definition DVD in just two seconds. I wonder [...]
FBI-Ware
On June 12th the FBI received a court order to send spyware to a MySpace account in order to investigate a bomb-threat. They call it a Computer and Internet Protocol Address Verifier, or CIPAV. “The exact nature of these commands, processes, capabilities, and their configuration is classified as a law enforcement sensitive investigative technique, the [...]
Samba 4
Speaking of Sama, Technical Preview 5 (TP5) for Samba 4 came out last month. And what’s so great about Samba 4? It’s a little thing called Active Directory. Until now, using Samba as a PDC only gave you NT4 functionality, but with Samba 4 comes promises of full AD integration. It will include it’s own [...]
Samba + LDAP
I’m making some virtual machines in VMWare to load on my servers. I’m upgrading all the hardware and moving everything to virtual machines. We’ve been having some trouble with our network as the result of a crash a few months ago. Our server crashed when I was performing an upgrade and I had a terrible [...]
Hardware Burn out!
I got most of the hardware I ordered and I started assembling everything. I re-assembled my SAN in a new case and added all the new hard drives yesterday. Then during the day this morning I started noticing a kind of burning smell. I couldn’t track down the source of the smell, so I walked [...]
Will Work for Cookies!!
Twice in the past few weeks someone has given me a bag full of cookies as a thank you for fixing their computer. In the world of IT there is often a mentality of us (IT) versus them (the users). Just read a little of the BOFH, an acronym I won’t spell out on here. [...]
Geek Day of Service
This is a Video I put together after our first Geek Day of Service in 2005. After this weekend I thought I’d share it here:
PC Workshop (Geek Day of Service)
So after the LAN Party Saturday morning, I went to Fairview Christian Church in Carthage where Jim Walton of http://www.churchtechmatters.com helped put together a PC Workshop, or what I’ve always called a Geek Day of Service. Of course I only had about an hour and a half of sleep, but it was fun. There were [...]
LAN Party!!
What can be geekier than a LAN party in your garage? Personally I can’t think of anything. That being said, here’s some pics from the LAN Party in my garage last night. This is setting up before the LAN: Here’s the 16-Port 10/100/1000Mbps Managed (Layer 3) Switch we use: This is poorchoices. His computer kept [...]
Phrogram
A while back I looked at a programming language designed for kids called Phrogram. I found a bug in it early on and decided to move on. I’m looking for some tools to begin teaching my 9 year old son (10 in September) to program. Last night I was contacted by one of the developers [...]
