JT on August 6th, 2008

A vendor that shall remain anonymous (for now) has almost guarenteed they won’t be getting future business for me any longer. The sad thing is that it wasn’t directly related to any mistake they made, but how they follow up on mistakes made by their suppliers.
Frankly, I don’t care who makes the mistake - they [...]

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JT on July 15th, 2008

The last few months at my new job I’ve been squishing small and medium bugs to get systems up to par. Service packs, patching, firmware updates, software upgrades, or just organized to make life easier for everyone involved.
Our server room has been one of those infested areas… I’ve been squashing the easy bugs but the [...]

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JT on July 8th, 2008

I’ve been fighting an odd issue and finally found a resolution with the assistance of TrendMicro’s support.
A few users (six out of 22k) reported that they weren’t getting email from anyone outside of the network. A few test messages from my web mail accounts (Gmail, Hotmail, and my own domain) revealed an interesting issue.
These few [...]

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JT on May 23rd, 2008

A few hardcore geeks have solved the latest problem holding back their community - how to beat some of these insane Guitar Hero songs on expert or Dragon Force’s Through the Fire and Flames on any difficulty.

Well a few ideas are looking promising.

Kevin Herron developed Tom Hannu, a Guitar Hero bot and a YouTube user [...]

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JT on March 7th, 2008

Circumventing government censorship is nothing new to people in Cuba.  The New York Times posted a story today about how students in Cuba are challenging the status quo.  It’s interesting to see how people get around the limitations other people put on them.  For example Havana currently has only one Internet cafe, it’s owned by [...]

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