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Monday, December 30th, 2013
I’ve been having trouble with my older HP dv9000 series laptops lately. Many have been dying from bad video and other issues. With the network issues appearing first, that was easily worked around with small usb wireless plug-in devices. But when the video goes, not much can be done ...
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Monday, May 9th, 2011
Well, my final verdict is in on the OpenNMS product I started testing back in late March. Its just too heavy, bogs down the server, and doesn’t offer enough value. I love the auto charting, but I cant combine charts the way I wanted, so I’m better off sticking with ...
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Thursday, May 5th, 2011
My new monster TV and blu-ray players were having trouble with NetFlix lately, but tonight I figured out what was wrong. It turns out that my Untangle device that is used for intrusion protection, anti-virus, web filtering, and other network appliance type features has a setting that was getting in ...
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Wednesday, April 27th, 2011
First, an update to my July 31 2008 post about Firefox plugins, this really should be its own entry, but I’m so used to searching for this July 31 entry that I don’t want multi steps. But Firefox 4 has dropped the keyboard shortcut for F6 to take you to ...
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Tuesday, March 29th, 2011
Working on a newly updated monitoring suite – this time the OpenNMS package. I’ve been a user of BigBrother for many many years – I guess its 13 or 14 now, since I began in 1997 or so. Its been ultra solid, ultra reliable, but has a very dated look ...
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Monday, March 28th, 2011
A very good article in Information Week at the end of February about the fact that everyone feels I.T. is too slow in delivery. Based on all the ITIL stuff, we were slowed to a crawl to meet regulations, and now we’re all being penalized for it. Its not exactly ...
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Wednesday, March 2nd, 2011
Well, this turns out to be the first post this year, but there has been much activity just not a lot of posting about it. Most recently I took a troublesome print server out of the mix. I was using a Linksys WPSM54g to USB connect my HP LaserJet 2550 ...
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Tuesday, December 21st, 2010
Well, completed a few laptop updates today. Using Acronis True Image, I swapped a dv9008nr and dv9208nr (bad wireless), and similarly swapped a dv9825nr with a dv9812us (bad sound card).
Also repaired my 4PSA DNS Manager tonight. 4PSA was very responsive to my question about why it expired when they claim ...
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Monday, December 13th, 2010
Added memory to the Untangle IPS server so that its now at 1Gb per recommendations. Also, since it sits in a rack, on its side, and get quite hot – I’ve removed the “top” cover now so that it will vent better. Hopefully this will stop some of the overheating ...
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Monday, December 6th, 2010
Canceled my Verizon DSL circuit today. Times they are a tough. On another note, I think I’m killing my 2.4Ghz HPa746c which is currently my untangle server. I already smoked my HP a712n somehow, so now its just a parts donor, but somehow I need a good untangle server. So ...
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