Month: May 2008
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Giant Spider
You can’t get the whole idea of how big he is, since he’s rearing up against the inside of the glass screaming obscenities at me, but he’s about 4″+ across:
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Apple Repair Is Awesome
I love Apple’s support, and can go on at length about how great AppleCare is, and Apple support in general. I recently had a MacBook Pro in for service after the screen went dark. First they overnighted me a box to ship the laptop to them in. Then for each step of the process, I…
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Using IPTables to Prevent SSH Brute Force Attacks
If you have a server with a world facing ssh server, you’ve probably seen brute force attacks in your logs. Some machine starts hammering your ssh server, trying all sorts of logins (staff, root, a, admin, etc…) over and over and over again. This is bad on a lot of fronts. I use two simple…
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Scary Stuff
I don’t want to make my blog political, but I had to post this: “Government lawyers told federal judges that the president can send the military into any U.S. neighborhood, capture a citizen and hold him in prison without charge, indefinitely.” Tell me that isn’t scary as all get out?
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I Found Great Croissants in Seattle
After some searching online, and reading many reviews, I decided to drive down to Cafe Besalu in Ballard. It took about 20 minutes, and I picked up three croissants and one pain au chocolat (my personal favorite). The consensus is that while they aren’t quite as good as in France, they are really close! They…
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Rant About Core-Based Licensing
This is a copy of a small rant I just posted on the ATG_Tech Google Group. Please note that ATG isn’t the only company doing this, Oracle does it, as do many others. I just think that it’s wrong:) If you draw a graph showing processing power against software license cost for the same software…