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Confirm that your SiteKey is correct

Bank of America just mandated this new “security feature” called SiteKey. Apparently, it is to help reduce phishing attacks to the bank of America online banking website. Well, since I just wasted 25 minutes of my time setting this thing up, I’m going to waste your time forcing you to read about it rather pointless “feature”.

Essentially, the theory behind SiteKey is that you enter your “Online ID” on the bofa.com front page and hit the submit button. If the server detects your browser, it will present you with a customizable picture and text that only Bank of America would know … that way you can quickly ensure you’re on

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WordPress 2.0

For those of you who care, I’ve upgraded 11h.net/blog to WordPress 2.0. The upgrade was a snap and took only a few minutes of my time on New Year’s Eve.

If you can’t view the blog anymore, simply reply to this post and I’ll fix it 🙂

New Year's Reminder

Remember to spread the word that the time Dec 31 23:59:59 2005 will advance to Dec 31 23:59:60 2005 before the year rollover to Jan 01 00:00:00 2006 due to a leap-second. Luckily, the Linux ctime() function call allows for leap-seconds. Since I’m sure only Eric & I read this blog, I suspect it’ll only be him and I counting down the new year properly: 10… 9… 8… 7… 6… 5… 4… 3… 2… 1… 0… Happy New year! w00t!

No TV and No Beer Make Brian …

The only problem with being forced to mount your satellite dish on the roof due to Condo/multi-dwelling unit rules?

No way to get to the dish to wipe the snow off the LNB. My neighbors own the upstairs patio, and I have a feeling they’d get suspicous of someone climing up their wall in the late evening to fix his dish. The vast majority of my channels are now de-watchable until the snow melts. The spot beam signals are still pretty strong (Transponder 18 is the Seattle locals). Too bad the simpsons aren’t on for another 20 minutes on FOX. I guess I’ll go post a blog entry while

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I know what I want for xmas!

Nokia is about to release an Internet tablet that uses the BusyBox Linux Distribution

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Programmer's Poem

Sorry to post something unoriginal… But while writing some code at work, I was reminded of this poem that I first read probably 6 or 7 years ago that has always been really funny to me. I wanted to post it here so I wouldn’t forget it again.

programmer’s poem

Authors: Fred Bremmer and Steve Kroese

!*”# ^@`$$- *!’$_ %*#4 &)../ {~|**SYSTEM HALTED

waka waka bang splat tick tick hash carat at back-tick dollar dollar dash splat bang tick dollar underscore percent splat waka waka number four ampersand right-paren dot dot slash curly bracket tilde pipe splat splat crash

Found via google at: [ wu :: 1447(poetry) ]

Note that

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Nokia 6230 as an Mp3 Player

Note: This post is a draft. It will be modified with more content and details as Eric & I find time to enhance this post.

Cingular’s iTunes phone? Ha… its $149 with a 2 year agreement. I’ve been with Cingular 10 months and already can’t stand them. My Nokia 6230 was free after rebates with a 1 year agreement. The ROKR has a 512MB memory card, yet is software-restricted to 100 audio tracks. As of this writing, I have a 2GB memory card in my 6230 with 270 songs. Although the user interface on the 6230 isn’t elegent with this many tracks, it serves its purpose for me quite well.

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FreeBSD Parallel Port interface

Interfacing the parallel port with FreeBSD to switch a relay (or 254).

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Lousy MSN 1000 DSL router

When MSN started their DSL service they handed out the MSN 1000 modem. Turns out, it’s an SMC Barricade router and DSL modem.

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Nokia 6230b Firmware Upgrade

I got my Nokia 6230b back today from the wonderful people at iUnlock. I must say, they provide an awesome service and I highly recommend them to anybody with a GSM phone.

I purchased the nokia 6230b firmware upgrade to version 5.50 (my phone ran Cingular’s 4.43) with decustomization. On Monday, October 24th, I shipped it out via UPS 2-day AM service. On Wednesday, I received an e-mail from iUnlock stating my phone was received, upgraded, tested, and shipped back via 2-day air with a tracking number. On Friday at Noon, I received my phone back. How easy was that. You can’t even get service like that from Cingular (who’s

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