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By brian, on January 17th, 2006 With Cingular, one could get away with using their “Unlimited MEdianet” data plan ($19.99 per month) to have full internet access (which they try to charge you $44.99 per month for) by simply bypassing their proxy server. Unfortunately, T-Mobile is smarter than that, and forces you to buy their $19.99 internet plan if you wan’t unrestricted access to the internet without using a proxy server. I don’t consider this a down side since its essentially the same price I was paying with Cingular, except I’m no longer breaching my terms of service agreement by tethering my phone to my laptop. Since I didn’t buy a T-Mobile phone (but kept my …
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By brian, on January 4th, 2006 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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By brian, on December 31st, 2005 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 🙂
By brian, on December 8th, 2005 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!
By brian, on December 1st, 2005 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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By erich, on November 16th, 2005 Nokia is about to release an Internet tablet that uses the BusyBox Linux Distribution …
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By brian, on November 10th, 2005 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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By brian, on November 8th, 2005 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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By erich, on November 5th, 2005 Interfacing the parallel port with FreeBSD to switch a relay (or 254). …
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By erich, on October 30th, 2005 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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