Monthly Archives: June 2005

Starting a business

Cheers to my mother for successfully completing her CLNC certification with a very nice score. For those of you not in the know, a legal nurse consultant is a registered nurse who works with lawyers on a consulting basis to … Continue reading

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Invisible substance abuse

As a parent with my own checkered past with drug experimentation, I now and then worry about the issue of drug abuse and how I need to be handling it with my kids. I certainly don’t want them to be … Continue reading

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Two steps forward, one step back

A while back, Microsoft acquired anti-virus vendor Sybari. Sybari had an interesting product line with support for Exchange, SharePoint, Live Communication Server, Lotus Domino, generic SMTP gateways, Windows, and UNIX/LINUX. Now that the acquisition is complete, guess what disappeared from … Continue reading

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Earth vs. Tempel-1

From the pages of CNN Science & Space: If all goes as planned, the Deep Impact spacecraft will release a wine barrel-sized probe on a suicide mission hurtling toward the comet Tempel 1 — about 80 million miles (129 million … Continue reading

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laughing through the tears

Ow, ow, ow! Damn you, John Scalzi! Why must you reduce me to hysterical laughter, to the point I have tears in my eyes? Memorable quotes: We live in an era in which an active quorum of religious bigots would … Continue reading

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The Broadcast Flag Reloaded

Not much time — less than 48 hours — to fight the latest incursion of the Broadcast Flag. What’s the problem? (quoted from the EFF website) The Broadcast Flag was Hollywood’s plan to point its remote control at your digital … Continue reading

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Mad as hell about Windows security myths

No, not me. My net.friend Alistair. He read this article and got a touch annoyed about some of the untruths and misconceptions present in the article, so he decided to respond. Not that I blame him; while this article raises … Continue reading

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Call to action: broadcast flags

Not much time — less than 48 hours — to fight the latest incursion of the Broadcast Flag. What’s the problem? (quoted from the EFF website) The Broadcast Flag was Hollywood’s plan to point its remote control at your digital … Continue reading

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Easily finding and reading IIS logs

Once again, Chrissy comes to the rescue with a nice bit of coding. Today’s problem: easily finding the right logfile for your IIS virtual server. I’ve got a couple of different servers I’ll be using this on, oh yes…

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Late night with Devin

Devin’s First Net Adage:You can lead a geek to a hyperlink, but you can’t make him click it. Addendum:Unless, of course, he’s using Internet Explorer.

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Late night thoughts

Once again, I’m up far too late, trying to fix a raft of computer problems. This time I’m reinstalling my Exchange organization, migrating DNS zones, and trying to install a new reverse proxy web server. The usual. I’ve got my … Continue reading

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