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11
Aug

What ifs Again - Can We Just Move on Hillary

By justisengard 0 Comments
Categories: Politics and Rant

You know, this article may have just hit me the wrong way, bit I had to say something. Senator Hillary Clinton, you lost, get over it! I mean come on how many times do we have to hear ‘what of’ scenarios of how things might have been if this or that did or did not happen. The simple fact is, we live in the here and now, and lets move forward.

Iowa Without Edwards

I do not want to hear for the next several weeks about how Clinton might have done this or that, or how Edwards took votes away from her, etc, etc. Just as I do not want to hear about how Nader cost Gore or Kerry the election. Gore and Kerry cost Gore and Kerry the election for not talking about issues. …but that is another topic…

10
Aug

Goodbye Bernie Mac

By justisengard 0 Comments
Categories: Television

Bernie MacUnfortunately the world has lost a very funny guy. As many articles about his death state, people were shocked in Bernie Mac’s passing. (Star pay tribute to Bernie Mac)

I am a bit surprised that he died from pneumonia. I would have thought in this day and age, as long as you got hospitalization, this would have not been such of a problem.

Obviously I was mistaken.

28
Jul

Moving into the Cloud

By justisengard 0 Comments
Categories: Blogging, Life and Wordpress
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After making the argument a while back with several of my friends to use Site5 to host their blog and other web services, I am moving my blog to wordpress.com.  Nothing against Site5, it is just a change of life and priorities that is creating the move more than anything else.  Hosting your own blog software requires geek time to review and update from time to time, and at the point in time, I need something that requires no maintenance.  WordPress.com fits the bill.  So as you will start to see, all my online services and life will be moving into the Web 2.0 cloud.

Also created a new blog for Anita and I to share stories, comments and opinions during our travels.  For those wanting to now where we just came back from, what happened or where we are planning to go, or what unique food we had - this is the place we will capture all this.

I have to say I have been plessantly surprised how well WordPress.com works.  The advanced fucntions on the GUI editor are nice, and I do not have to struggle with inserting pictures, etc.  ScribeFire (blogging plugin for Firefox) works well with it too.  You will see me changing themes for a bit until I find one that works for me.  I may just have to break down and do some CSS editing…but I am not there just yet.

26
Jul

Cell Phones & Your Brain

By justisengard 0 Comments
Categories: Health and Mobility

Fears About Link Between Cell Phones and Cancer Re-EmergeCheck out this article: Fears About Link Between Cell Phones and Cancer Re-Emerge.

Seems the cell phone antenna emits microwave radiation at least an inch from the phone. So when you are holding the cell phone to your ear, unless you have big thick ears, you are frying a bit of your brain.

Cell phones emit low doses of microwave radiation that destroy rat brain cells and memory and reach one inch into the human brain.

Wow, looks like I should start using my ear piece more. You know, maybe this would help those idiot drivers with one hand on the steering wheel and one holding their cell phone to their head.

Larry King recently featured three well-respected neurosurgeons on Larry King Live to talk about whether cell phones increase the risk of cancer. Each surgeon indicated that they do not hold their cell phones up to their ears when using them. Keith Black, a surgeon at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles said “I think the safe practice is to use an earpiece so you keep the microwave antenna away from your brain.

So what is the take away from all this? Frying your brain with microwave energy is baaad. You have two choices: One, do not use a cell phone or two, get a ear piece.

24
Jul

The DNS Flaw

By justisengard 1 Comment
Categories: Security and Technology
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Evidently there is a flaw or bug in all DNS caching servers that is really simple and has not been patched.

This?! This is the DNS flaw?

The above Infoworld blog is where I initially found out about this. Then I move the the link in the article to Poor DNS blog post of someone who has been doing testing. Checkout what he found, but here is the latest list of vulnerable DNS servers.

Continue reading ‘The DNS Flaw’

23
Jul

VMware Fusion Users Beware

By justisengard 2 Comments
Categories: Apple, Technology and Virtualization
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Just came across the following article about a possible bug with VMware Fusion.

VMware blames Apple for Fusion corruption

According to VMware, the underlying problem is in the way Mac OS X
handles unbuffered I/O. The issue is variously referred to as either a
bug or “a disagreement between Fusion and OS X about what sequences of
disk-write calls are legal to make.”

Unbuffered I/O works by sending data directly to the file, as opposed
to buffered I/O which stages the data to be written into a block of
memory (a buffer) and then writes the contents of the buffer out to the
file.

The good news is that with its default settings, Fusion does not use unbuffered I/O.

Well, evidently, I am not the power user of years past, as I did not know there was such a setting to change.

For now, VMware says “We have reported this issue to Apple, but until
this bug is resolved, we recommend that all VMware Fusion users ensure
they select the default option, in VMware Fusion Preferences, for
‘Optimize for virtual machine disk performance’ to guard against
potential data loss.”

06
Jul

Jesse Helms Dies

By justisengard 1 Comment
Categories: Politics

Former Senator Jesse Helms, who built a career along the fault lines of racial politics and battled liberals, Communists and the occasional fellow Republican during 30 conservative years in Congress, died on the Fourth of July. He was 86. (API know many people across the country are celebrating. Jesse Helms created some passionate enemies in his life. I cannot say that I am one of them though. I disagreed with him on most of his positions, but I did have a keen respect for the man. No matter what you thought of his ideology or his political positions, no one could say that Jesse Helms did not stand on his principles. In my opinion, that is something sorely missing from American politics. Too many American politicians cannot make a decision without taking a poll to determine which way the political winds are blowing. You never had to be worried about Helms doing that, he made decisions based on his principles and stuck with them. Even when they were not popular.

01
Jul

Sorry Bono, you are an idiot…

By justisengard 0 Comments
Categories: Music and OMG

Bono Agrees with Manager: ISPs are to Blame for the Downfall of Music

So Bono thinks that the recording industry’s issues are the fault of ISPs. Hmmm, stick to saving the world Bono.

29
Jun

Bush wants to use Military Satellites for Domestic Surveillance

By justisengard 0 Comments
Categories: Apple and Rant

You’re On Candid Camera

A Bush administration program to expand domestic use of Pentagon spy satellites has aroused new concerns in Congress about possible civil-liberties abuses.

What the hell? I mean just how far are we going to let President BombsaLot go? Please, someone explain how far fear is going to allow our country to become a fascist state?

Rep. Jane Harman,
a California Democrat who chairs the House Homeland Security
Subcommittee on intelligence, told Newsweek that majorities in both the
House and Senate intend to block all funding for the domestic
intelligence center at least until August, when the Government
Accountability Office, an investigative agency that works for Congress,
completes a report examining civil-liberties and privacy issues related
to the domestic use of picture-taking spy satellites.

Thanks Jane, but what is there to look at or review? Am I going to need to worry about explaining everything I do to big brother soon?

29
Jun

Why cannot iTunes Multi-Task?

By justisengard 0 Comments
Categories: Apple and Rant

Steve Jobs, can you explain to me why iTunes on Leopard cannot download and play a video podcast at the same time?
I do not run iTunes in the background all the time. So when i start it up to watch, typically Diggnation, it starts to update and download all my podcasts, some large some small. When iTunes finishes a download it updates the iTunes database, and I get the rainbow beach ball with now sounds and video for the video podcast I am watching. Oh, and it is not like it pauses the podcast, the podcast still runs, you just cannot hear or see it while iTunes does some update. WHY, tell me why Apple cann fix iTunes to not do this? Please someone explain.

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