Category Archives: /dev/random

ATT SMS Gateways, consistent source short code

By Ken | Published: September 27, 2009
At work we get nagios pages via SMS using the @txt.att.net email-SMS gateway. Everyone who receives these pages also happens to have an Iphone. Our setup was fairly annoying because every txt message had a unique sender, so in the event you that you receive a ton of alerts its really hard to clean up [...]
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Evolution MAPI Plugin on Ubuntu 9.04

By Ken | Published: April 7, 2009
Recently upgraded my laptop to the pre release Ubuntu 9.04 ( jaunty jackalope). One of the things I have been looking forward to is the Evolution MAPI plugin that is a result of work done by the Openchange project to implement MAPI stacks on both the client and server side. Evolution has been able to [...]
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Uptime

By Ken | Published: March 30, 2009
Or lack there of. Blog is back online.
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Climbing in Nepal

By Ken | Published: December 10, 2008
A friend of mine is climbing some previously unclimbed peaks in Nepal. He has a blog describing their adventure, but the sickest part IMO is this video.
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“Do what you love”

By Ken | Published: December 8, 2008
*note: the shortcut to the end of this post is to read the essay “How to do what you love” by Paul Graham. Well almost a year to the date since my last post. I figure I should probably get at least one post on the record for 2008 and if I stay motivated maybe [...]
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EaKiu: Eye Candy for the Wi-Spy

By Ken | Published: August 7, 2007
While at WWDC John and Daniel turned me on to EaKiu. Its a cool piece of software for the Wi-Spy 2.4Ghz USB Spectrum Analyzer. It touts some pretty cool 3D graphs. Unfortunately its OS X only. For Windows you can use manufacturer provided software, and for Linux you can use Dragorn’s software. Which both sport [...]
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Wifi in the wall: Karo WEJ-11G

By Ken | Published: August 3, 2007
At work we just carrying this cool new device, an access point that fits in a wall box. Looks like it would be great for outfitting apartment buildings and/or condos with wifi coverage. It supports all the usual AP/Bridging/WDS, POE, SSL web management etc… Even supports remote syslog and SNMP.
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Updated Pyramid LiveCD Installer

By Ken | Published: August 1, 2007
I mentioned in this email a little while back that I released a new Pyramid LiveCD Installer with the 1.0b5 version of Pyarmid. This CD provides a simple method for boot strapping a Soekris net45XX/net48XX single board computer. Some models accept normal compact flash cards for the operating system media in which case you could [...]
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Fire @ the Kincora…err Manray

By Ken | Published: July 31, 2007
  After hacking on a Koolu today at the office I noticed the smell of something burning. Concerned we had shorted some hardware we frantically sniffed around the office looking for fire. Turns out the back of the building that is home to Kincora and Manray was on fire.
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New Digs

By Ken | Published: July 31, 2007
Alot of things have happened in 2007 with my company. We completely revamped our online store to start of the year, we have added a ton of new products and we moved in to a new address located on pine in Capitol Hill. June 16th marked an entire year since I left my full time [...]
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