Monthly Archives: February 2005

This is too much. Verizon just showed up to check the phone line for a ticket that was never opened by a company I am no longer a customer of. Of course there isn’t a problem with the line now … Continue reading →

Draw a map! Yes that’s right, the golden rule of network troubleshooting is to draw yourself a diagram. How do the computers, switches, and routers plug in with each other on the network. Are you running VLANs, how is traffic … Continue reading →

This morning I was interviewed over the phone by Michael Cohn for a story in TechWeb’s Security Pipeline, basically an opinion interview to include with an article on a receint study that is about to be released by the Florida … Continue reading →

This morning after a week and two days of DSL outage, and more importantly Speakeasy changing their story every single time I talked to them, I gave up and canceled my service. It’s really a shame, I was really hoping … Continue reading →

See: Om Malik on Broadband � Why I think Speakeasy Sucks If I had read this post two weeks ago my response would have been completely different. I would have raved about SpeakEasy‘s connection speed, their customer service and support, … Continue reading →

After what seems like hours of experimentation and testing I can now say that I have a working VoIP based PBX running the Asterisk open source software. Initial concerns over call quality with DSL remote endpoints has been completely squashed … Continue reading →

All of the major search engines are pushing Local search services (local.yahoo.com, local.google.com, search.msn.com, etc…), which I must say are getting really, really good. When I search for something that I am going to use more than once, I typically … Continue reading →

RSS has been both a blessing and a curse for me. On the one hand it allows me to subscribe to and read an amazing amount of content. On the other hand, I am completely overwhelmed now with the amount … Continue reading →

“Network address translation (NAT, also known as network masquerading or IP-masquerading) is a technique in which the source and/or destination addresses of IP packets are rewritten as they pass through a router or firewall.” Except 99.999% of what people think … Continue reading →

One of my cats likes to sit with me when I am working at my desk in my home office. She usually likes to sit either on my lap, my keyboard, or propped up against my laptop. Well I just … Continue reading →