Archive for January, 2008

GIAC Rising

Tuesday, January 29th, 2008

The certificate granting branch of the SANS Institute, GIAC, just reached two important milestones. The first one was attaining ISO certification, which I’m not sure about, but I think it means that if an airline pilot has a heart attack and they need someone to fill in, then they will let me safely land […]

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Tragistrophic Leopard Upgrade

Saturday, January 19th, 2008

The advertisement from Apple says “So advanced, it practically installs itself.” What a load of garbage! Here is the story of my nightmarish upgrade to Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard).
Before we even begin, I have to own up to my culpability for not ensuring I had full and complete system backups before […]

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Insta-Blizzards

Monday, January 14th, 2008

So one of the coolest things (at least to me) about North Idaho is that in a matter of minutes an enormous snow storm can whip up out of nowhere — even at times when no snow is predicted. This happened two weeks ago when I went into Wal*Mart and there was no snow, […]

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Got Me Some Netflix

Tuesday, January 1st, 2008

Well, I had been putting off getting a Netflix account for several years now, but that wind of change was blowin’ through 2008 and convinced me to commit up to $17 per month to another online merchant. They say the first two weeks are free…

Now I fully expect to become a couch-ridden blob, unable […]

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