Kill some time

Monitor superglued to a wall I'm not sure where its at but its funny to watch and leave a message.... or at least it was. It doesn't seem to be working for me anymore.
Well Stumbling always kills some time, probably the biggest time killer in my day. When I used to work at a helpdesk I used to play Defend your Castle all the time
How about one free minute to say whatever you like for others to hear?

How about a ball game

[TechLife] Diggnation on ABC News (confirmation from Alex)

"That's right people we just finished recording Diggnation Episode number 5. Not only that but a crew from ABC News Feed service was here to capture the whole thing! They are doing a story on Podcasting and they chose our Podcast to feature in their story.....

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Posted by TJ to TechLife at 7/29/2005 05:37:10 AM

[TechLife] Try every Linux Distro under the Sun!

"A new service is on the horizon. Fans of Linux who want to try all the different distros to decide on the best one are in for a treat. A new service called Distro of the Month is set to begin shipments on October 1, 2005 and is taking subscribers now.

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Posted by TJ to TechLife at 7/29/2005 05:33:25 AM

[TechLife] Tux on iPod mini Tutorial

Linux on your ipod has many advantages over Apple's default menu navigation appearance. With linux you can have the ability to play a wider set of fun games, unlock infinite expandability of your portable hard drive, navigate faster through menus, play with fun little applications built in and have a wider variety of playable audio file formats.

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Posted by TJ to TechLife at 7/29/2005 05:28:30 AM

Not going after all...

Well I just came back from SRP (Record Updating pretty much) in Minnesota last night, after all this talk and getting ready to get deployed I come to find out that I'm not deployable after all. Go figure.... I know I'm kinda short on details right now but I'll update later.

[TechLife] How to create Firefox extensions

Everyone has a good idea at one time or another to implement a new feature in a web browser. Well, with the goodness that is Mozilla Firefox, now you can do just that. You need to have a vague understanding of XUL and Javascript, but you certainly don't need to be a master of either.

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Posted by TJ to TechLife at 7/28/2005 01:29:41 PM

[TechLife] 10 steps to crack wep

Watch this vid, it shows how to crack wep in less than three min.

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Posted by TJ to TechLife at 7/24/2005 03:02:19 PM

[TechLife] google maps adds hybrid feature

They just keep making it better. This is the end of our overlay hacks. They have a "hybrid view". Good job google. Maybe they are out of new ideas? hardly.

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Posted by TJ to TechLife at 7/22/2005 04:47:02 PM

[TechLife] Sony's PSP to browse the Web, play TV

Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. (SCEI) will release a system software update for its PlayStation Portable (PSP) next week that will add several new functions to the handheld gaming device, including the ability to browse the Internet and download TV programs, the company said Thursday.

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Posted by TJ to TechLife at 7/21/2005 10:58:35 AM

As the days go by...

Since coming to the realization that I may have to go to Iraq instead of getting out of the Army like I had hoped, I have been searching trying to find lists of things to take and pretty much what the conditions are like. I've taken alot of things off of those lists and tried to come up with my own. It's not really a final list, right now it's just a jumbled mess of what I have found. I'll have to post some links to the sights I found about peoples' experiences over there. You know you pretty much have to take enough to keep your mind busy, so you don't go crazy. You also need to be creative and resourceful to make your area a nice one. Until later....

Stardotstar.org

[TechLife] How to pick a lock

ever wondered how to pick a lock...well now you can know. i have tried the pin column lock explanation they gave and it was open with no problem

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Posted by TJ to TechLife at 7/21/2005 05:33:33 AM

[TechLife] How To Install Windows in Ubuntu Linux

Running Linux? Want the compatability of Windows? You can now have it with this moderately easy guide.

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Posted by TJ to TechLife at 7/21/2005 03:48:06 AM

[TechLife] Why Everyone Should Mod Everything

Electrical engineer David Randolph on how and why everyone (even the biggest n00bs) can and should find the inspiration to become modders and what it really means to be a "modder".

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Posted by TJ to TechLife at 7/20/2005 08:17:20 PM

[TechLife] Run GNU/Linux from a USB pen drive

You can carry GNU/Linux in your pocket with a functional, quick, and useful USB pen drive distribution. Pen drives are faster than CDs, and the small distros that fit on them don't require huge amounts of memory for the operating system and applications.

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Posted by TJ to TechLife at 7/20/2005 07:38:41 PM

More Pictures

Car Accident

Well I was in an accident this past Wednesday, this guy was running from the cops and I just happened to be in his way. I was trying to turn left onto a street when the guy came from the left side and slammed into me. He hit right in front of my door and then my car kind of spun and the back of my car hit his car too. Then both of our cars kind of went in opposite directions. Everyone in my car only received at the most bumps, bruises and cuts (My son didn't have any, and my girlfriend had a bunch of bruises). I got the most though, I had cuts in my head, ear, mouth, and back. I had migraines up till this morning but they have pretty much gone away now. The driver of the other car broke his leg and some other stuff, his passenger wasn't hurt I guess but he went to jail because he had a warrant for his arrest. I'm not sure what is going to happen but the police were apparently chasing him but there were no lights or sirens from what my girlfriend and I remember. When I get the report I'll figure out what the next steps are from here. Pictures uploaded as well of both cars, mine is the maroon one.

Its Been a Long Time

Well there have definitely been a lot of things happening since I last posted in April. On the Army Reserve front I've had it in the back of my mind that I was definitely getting out and being done with all of this before my unit deploys in Sept, but it doesn't appear that I'll be getting out as I hoped. I've had a few episodes of Atrial Fibrillation which makes my heart do some unnatural rhythms, I'm pretty much healthy for the most part except for the fact that it could or could not happen again in the future. So most of this year I have been on a permanent profile for that and I've pretty much thought I had a lock on not getting deployed. This was before they asked for my medical records and what my current heart status was. So I sent them all of my medical records with all the info I had on my incidents but of course I didnt have any current stuff which is what they really wanted. I figured I could go to the doctor and just tell them I didn't want to go to Iraq and bam they'll just tell the Army that it would be too stressful or whatever. The doctor thought otherwise and let me know that my heart will not get me out the Army because I was ok. So now I'll just have to wait and see if they'll get mad because I didn't send the current stuff before the deadline. I guess whatever way it goes I'll be getting ready to deploy, I've been trying to get together lists of things I may need when we go. I know if I do go I would be on point with everything but I just don't want to go. After my 3-week AT in South Dakota last month I was pretty much done with Army crap. It wasn't the fact that I got picked to go back to South Dakota again after last year was crap, or the fact that we got shitted on by the units we were attached to, or the fact that there was NOTHING as far as work for us to do, it was the fact that I had a retarded NCOIC that was a kiss ass with the other units so he helped shit on us. Then he would turn around and lie to our faces about stuff, so I'm sitting there thinking that I do not want to be over in a war zone with this man. I dunno, I guess I'll just have to wait and see how these next 2 months turn out.

On the work front my business manager got fired, apparently while I was gone to South Dakota she mounted some kind of offensive to try to get me fired. The details are slim but apparently she was fired in the process. She really couldnt give anybody any real reasons why she should fire me so that probably helped. Now work is relatively calm without her there, if I was making more it would be great.

[TechLife] So much to do, So little time

I seem to have slacked off big time in my updating here.

First off, the new job is getting a bit tiresome thanks to management but I can deal. The work is still proving to be interesting though. I have been trying to keep up my skills on the side as well. I'm currently trying to up my skills in Linux by doing a Stage 1 installation of Gentoo, which is pretty much starting with very little and trying to build up a system from it. I'm currently doing this on my laptop which is not very fast, so it will probably take me a few weeks to finally get it done. Not because it's that slow but I seem to need some extra steps in between all the slow steps that are dragging things out. I have a system at work that is Gentoo so that is the main reason why I'm doing this, it doesn't work right now and I'm trying to get a better background in Gentoo to try and fix it. After Gentoo I'll probably try to get into some LiveCDs and the eventually LFS (Linux From Scratch)

To all who know me its definitely no secret that I prefer using linux over windows, but at work that's pretty much most of my job. I'm pretty much getting everything down since I really didnt have much background in administration within a windows environment, but I think I can hold my own with Exchange and Active Directory now. I'm really into the scripting now, since I know you can script just about everything I'm trying to build an admin console for myself that will house some of my most used scripts.

Idea Bin:
Net Admin LiveCD (WMI scripting, Nagios monitoring, blah blah, ...and other stuff)
Custom Linux Distro
Office solution for small/med sized businesses (Computers, Phones, Software, pretty much all the basics)

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Posted by TJ to TechLife at 4/25/2005 02:53:00 PM

The Forgotten

There are so many things that we forget through out the course of our lives, events, places, people, etc....blah blah blah. I guess I would try to combat that on a certain level by writing a whole lot (yea, I'm slippin), with pictures or whatever. I'm not really sure why I thought of this though today but I can't seem to write in cursive anymore!!!! Yea, I know that thanks to the computer most of the stuff that I write is typed into the computer and when I do write on paper its in print. You could argue that there is really no use for me to remember that fancy art of writing, but man..... I was sitting there struggling to try and write a whole sentence. It didnt help that I had to look up how to write a cursive Z. I'm not gonna spend too much time on this but it really has me goin for the moment.

Plate is Full

Man, things just seem to get crazier and crazier by the minute. Since I started this new job I seem to be working with less time or something. I just can't seem to put everything into its correct place, even at work I'm kinda zoning out. It's not really because of the lack of work I seem to be working on things constantly, just not enough time to do them. I have a solution for Spam that I'm supposed to have working by Friday but right now I can't even get the machine its on to boot up. Not to mention that fact that this same Spam solution is going to go into production pretty soon. It probably would have been easier if I would have made up the thing but it was left by a previous employee with very little instructions. I guess it's the projects like that which seem to make time tick a little faster.




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