This kind of makes me sick at my stomach. Just as a study is released within the past several months indicating genetically modified soy has been linked to sterility and infant mortality in hamsters (and thus likely humans as well), DuPont has been approved by the USDA to begin production of soy with yet another [...]
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1.5 TB Western Digital Caviar Green: Don’t Get One
So for Christmas, my Dad bought me a Western Digital 1.5 TB (terabyte) hard drive from TigerDirect.com. No issues with TigerDirect to be clear. No issues with what my Dad got me since I told him the hard drive to order. And initially no issues with the hard drive either. However, the past month or [...]
NAT Loopback Turned Up on AT&T U-Verse Router
I’m not sure at what point, but some time over the past week or two, my 2Wire 3800 HGV-B router was upgraded to new firmware (by AT&T of course), version 6.1.9.24 or rather 6.1.9.23-enh.tm. I’m not positive this fixed it or if AT&T upgraded their firewall policy, but for whatever reason, my NAT loopback works [...]
U-Verse Install on Saturday!
Finally, the long wait is over for the Westerfunk network … U-Verse will allegedly be installed on Saturday between 1 and 3 pm. We’ll see how that turns out. Just want to make everyone aware now that all sites will be unavailable until I can bring them back up on the new service. Also, one [...]
Cap and Trade + Data Centers = Bad News for IT
Data Center Regulation Awareness Increasing, Prepare for CO2K This is an excerpt from a blog entry by a speaker at the 2009 Gartner Data Center Conference in Las Vegas, NV, named Michael Manos. He spoke about how Cap and Trade style legislation is already having a negative impact on the UK’s IT and data center [...]
SharePoint Conference 2009 Live Blogging
We’ll see how this goes … Just giving it a try. Also, I’ll occasionally be streaming audio, but it’s spotty and sometimes the wireless signal isn’t strong so it drops … but if you want, you can attempt to listen here: http://www.westerfunk.net/radio/player/ SharePoint Conference 2009
Police State Watch – FBI Data-Mining Program Expanding
FBI’s Data-Mining System Sifts Airline, Hotel, Car-Rental Records The government’s ability to sift and sort through massive amounts of data is increasing at an exponential rate. The NSA is even launching a new, massive data-center just outside of Salt Lake City, UT. In the name of security, we now have an FBI and a federal [...]
AT&T Digging Up My Yard
Update 8.6.2009: Well, to give them credit, they did leave a note on my front door letting me know the day before. So, nevermind. It is AT&T and they are putting Uverse in the neighborhood. So, that’s pretty cool! Okay. I know AT&T or the power company can come and dig up your yard as [...]
6 Years of AT&T DSL Connection Woes Resolved in 1 Second
UPDATE 03/01/2010: New Solution: if U-Verse is available to you, just upgrade to that! Got switched over this weekend and it’s awesome. ———————————————————————————— Background: over the years, I have had a fluctuating issue with a weak connection from my ADSL modem to AT&T’s CO (central office) in my area. This resulted in continual errors on [...]
Anonymizing Squid Proxy Traffic
For anyone using the Squid proxy server, either on Linux or Windows, these parameters will anonymize enough traffic so that websites you attempt to access will still work (such as ajax-heavy sites like Facebook), but your source IP information will still be concealed. via off forwarded_for off header_access Cache-Control deny all header_access Forwarded-For deny all [...]
