Mouse Clock – Fun for the first 5 mins at least

Reading time: < 1 minute I was going over some of my old files\apps, found this fun little toy.  It's a small clock that follows the mouse, so it's never in your way.  It does free up that tiny bit … Continue reading

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Rawr! Pool of Darkness monster pics

Reading time: < 1 minute   If you want them take them.  Just give me the little bit of credit for them I deserve, all I did was rip 2 frames, and add a border around them  

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Backing up of data: types of backups and data formats.

Reading time: 7 – 11 minutes  (Note, I wrote this almost 6 years ago, and did not look over it, so there may be a few errors in the thought process, if anything sounds wrong, let me know)   In … Continue reading

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Trucks – Inedible

Reading time: < 1 minute   I'm not sure if there's a big rash of people randomly eating the contents of tanker trucks before someone checks to see if it's food or not, but I have seen more than a … Continue reading

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I want a large cocktail and not sure if I have any place for it.

Reading time: 1 – 2 minutes   I think this winter, if I have any extra funds, I may make a cocktail cabinet.  And by make, I mean buy a premade cab with most accessories already for it, and just … Continue reading

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Windows CLI & Batch – For /F loops – Part 1

Reading time: 3 – 4 minutes   Needed to clean out a few of my draft posts I never got around to finishing.  Rather than try to get in the mood to write some more on this post, and finish … Continue reading

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House hunt update – maybe this one will work?

Reading time: 2 – 3 minutes   Note: I wrote this, and forgot to publish it, so this is an as-is read.  I’ve posted pics of the last house two posts before this one.   Cindy and I went and … Continue reading

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Firebox – my prettiest firewall yet

Reading time: 1 – 2 minutes   I got my Watchguard Firebox in the mail this weekend, and while I’ve not used it, or even mounted it in the rack yet, it is the best looking of all my router\firewalls.   … Continue reading

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Protected: Newest house pics – password “house”

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Finestra Virtual Desktops is a piece of crap

Reading time: 2 – 3 minutes   I doubt I’ve every said anything that strong about software, but then again, never ran into this nasty of a bug and not known what caused it.    Finestra VD (*snicker*) is a … Continue reading

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Terminal server is full, now what?

Reading time: 2 – 3 minutes   I’ve been buying up a lot of stuff for my home networking lab, but when it comes to routers\firewalls, I figured I was done now that I have my watchguard.  Maybe I’ll pick … Continue reading

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To sales or not to sales…

Reading time: 1 – 2 minutes   I found out that there’s a Post-sales engineer posistion open in our goverment side.  This means the joy of being on call when stuff breaks, but I cam from the life of a … Continue reading

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Vanguard Bandits – The tactical RPG no one gave a damn about

Reading time: < 1 minute   I love tactical RPGs, the first RPG I ever played was Curse of the Azure Bonds, and it’s still one of the best.  I’m also a big fan of Final Fantasy Tactics.  One game … Continue reading

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Adtran TCL – Shut down an interface on an event

Reading time: 3 – 4 minutes   Tracks and Probes and Test tickles, oh my!  This post is skiping over some basics to show the joys of tickle scripts, because I felt like talking about them, and not tracks and … Continue reading

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FortiGate GRE Template

Reading time: 2 – 3 minutes   GRE is about as simple as you can get when talking tunnels.  On a Cisco or an Adtran, you add in source\dest, and an ip address, and you can call it a day.  … Continue reading

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