All Time Defense – The Amazing Cisco Show
Gang–I wanted shamelessly promote a friend of mine who has recently stated a new tech blog to help you get your Cisco on. Visit him at All Time Defense Bryan (or Mad Dog, as he is known to his friends), has a great deal of experience with Cisco security products and is now inviting you to walk with him (in a purely plutonic sense) down the road of Cisco Voice Over IP. Personally, I think you should read his blog early and...
Keeping Up with RSS
Hello, Everyone! I wanted to point out some less-than-obvious functionality that most blogs feature. In particular, the RSS feed. It seems that people who use it love it…and people who don’t use it…well, really don’t know much about it. SO–at the risk of sounding pedantic, here goes. RSS stands for “Really Simply Syndication” and can be thought of simply like a morning newspaper. That is, if we can even remember what a newspaper is in our day and age  . A newspaper did/does a fantastic job of compiling bits of information and delivering it as a package to one’s door. An RSS feed is essentially the same–whenever a web or other RSS enabled content is updated, an RSS Client notices...
Announcing Nolan 03/27/2008 and…uh…Fireworks
Ordinarily, I try to keep this blog about tech stuff, but well, I have to break from the norm for just a minute! Forgive the self-indulgence. This kind of stuff doesn’t happen every day. Ok, not to me anyway . He’s pretty great, isn’t he? Unfortunately he has my hair–in fact after he received his first bath, he looked like he had a bad run-in with a Van de Graaf generator. Now back to our regularly scheduled geekdom…Huh? Oh, I guess we can apply a bit of Internet meme here. Lessee… in the first picture, the caption could definitely be “Don’t Taze Me, Bro!” Oh, now that I think about it–check out the birth announcement. For those who don’t know: At the hospital, the day...
Open Source Web Development – Vista Style
Yep. Stupid title–and that’s what one feels like, sometimes, working on new sites inside Vista. So why do it? Well, there are three things really: I’m not a programmer–C, .Net, or otherwise. We aren’t counting scripting like batch files, Perl, and VBS. Neither are we counting markups like HTML, and for that matter, PHP. For all the wildly fantastic functionality, the learning cliff may never be scaled by the likes of me. Hi, Chris! And, thanks to Meestah Bryan, I have access to a great open source server with full cPanel authority. For roughly zero cost. Hard to argue with that… Lastly, I’m a bit spendthrift (read: cheap). With the open source Content Management Systems (CMS) the only expense is time for...
Ubuntu 7.10 “Gutsy Gibbon”
Man. Life is suddenly busy. Lemme give out with some cool stuff, though. The latest version of Ubuntu Linux is head and shoulders above the previous iteration. I’m used to Linux being rather slow and dodgey. This just isn’t. It runs extremely well. If you want to give it a go, grab the ISO and burn it to a CD. If you are using Vista–and you should be. Don’t give me any of that nonsense “Hatin’ on Vista” mumbo-jumbo. So, since you are wise and up-to-date, use your Vista hard drive management to resize your partition down a few gigs. 8GB is more than enough to taste Ubuntu. Boot the Ubuntu Live CD, and start the install wizard. Even on my ATi-based machine, it ran well, and detected most devices. Actually, it...
OpenDNS – Basic Security Step Zero!
OpenDNS Guys and Gals, you may have never heard about OpenDNS–and that is unfortunate. This FREE (yes, that is as in “pizza”) service is the most basic and simple step you can take to secure your home and/or business network. It is actually so free and easy that you may not even need me to tell you how. There are great technical instructions right there on the OpenDNS home page to the story of the whys and hows. However, if you are non-technical, you may be left asking, “Now…what does this do for me again?” Keep reading. Or, if you are technically-oriented, but just want the bottom line without marketing-speak…keep reading. Still with me? Great. Following the BLUF (bottom line up front) principle, let me plainly...
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