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 of [...]
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U-Verse Install on Saturday!
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 industries. [...]
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 security [...]
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 they [...]
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.
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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
header_access From deny all
header_access Keep-Alive [...]
Unexploded Thermitic Material in WTC Dust? Surely Not
(Original page w/ link to PDF): http://www.bentham-open.org/pages/ … /7TOCPJ.SGM
(Archive page): http://www.westerfunk.net/archives/science/Active … Catastrophe/
(Archive PDF): http://www.westerfunk.net/archives/science/… /7TOCPJ.pdf
In a study published in April of this year, a group of scientists claim to have found active thermitic particles in several separate World Trade Center (WTC) pyroclastic dust samples (the white dust resulting from the collapse of the two [...]
Our Computing Environment is Already Compromised
(Original): http://homelandsecuritynewswire.com/single.php?id=8200
(Archived): http://www.westerfunk.net/ … common%20language/
“The former cybersecurity director at DHS had some sobering words last week about the battle for cybersecurity. ‘We lost,’ the former director, now chief executive officer of NetWitness Corp., said at the Symantec Government Symposium in Washington. ‘We lost the cyber war over the last 15 years. Our computing environment is [...]
IOGear’s Must Have Toy
http://www.iogear.com/product/GUWAVKIT/
I just saw this today, sent to me by a co-worker. As much as I would spend on getting yet another HDMI cable and a VGA-to-DVI converter to hook up my laptop to my flat screen, I could pay a little more and go completely wireless while still broadcasting a solid HD signal to the [...]
