MIT student arrested for fake bomb

An MIT student was arrested in Logan intl Airport for wearing a sweatshirt with a prototyping board on it and a 9 volt battery which lit up some led�s that said MIT course VI which is the numerical designation for computer and electrical engineering majors. The shirt which she has and has been wearing for a long time, was something that a class of students made as a project. The police surrounded her in the airport with automatic weapons and arrested her, then commented that she was lucky to be alive. As you can see from the link to the article below anyone who has half a brain can see that it is a piece of techno art. However I just wanted to post this to solicit your opinions about the fear of electronics in this country and the sad state of affairs. This is even worse considering that MIT is known for its research in embedded computers in clothing and the airport is right around the corner from MIT! Also she walked up to the airline desk and asked when a flight was coming in because she was picking up a friend. She did not even try to get through the security checkpoint.

2 m Moxon project.

I�am in the process of designing a 20m moxon antenna. I like the moxon so much I decided to make a quick moxon for 2m tonight. I built it out of twine and 2 dowel rods. I wanted to see how cheap I could build one, and the total cost of this antenna is $4.28. Not bad for an antenna on the cheap. The moxon is a great antenna and the reason why it is well liked on�HF is because it exhibits the gain of a 2 element yagi antenna with the s/n rejection of a 3 element yagi! This antenna is easy to build and hand holding it you can tell which direction the local repeaters are. As you rotate the moxon away from the repeater, the signal disappears completely!

Call of Duty 4

Life the Universe and Everything

Today I realized that even though the world is cruel and unfair, irony is not lost. I realized this while I was sitting on hold with my ISP, and the rep came back on the line and told me the reason why I had to hold a little longer was because he himself was on hold…… 5 minutes later he hung up on me while transferring my call….?

Open Solaris 10 sandbox

Thanks to those friendly people from Digg.com who decided it would be fun to bring my Solaris box to its knees by forking and other things to DDOS my Solaris zone. I have learned many ways of enhancing the security of Solaris zones. I have limited the Sandbox zone to 1% of total CPU usage. I have limited the total number of processes to 1000 and I have installed the Solaris Jass security hardening script. I plan to post many of my discoveries in the future. Work has been busy lately and it is on the burner of things to be done along with part 2 of solaris zones.

First Production ZFS server today

I have plenty of small business clients and sooner or later they all face one big challenge. They all outgrow the initial 80GB tape drives that we put on their servers. The problem is that most of these are small businesses and most of them could just afford the initial network, and asking them to pony up $2000+ for a new tape drive or worse yet autoloader is out of the question.

TV Networks Just Don’t Get it

I t seems to me that the big four tv network either don’t understand what people want or simply don’t care. If you look at the cable networks you have stimulating things to watch like Nip Tuck, Dexter, Sleeper Cell, Battlestar Galactica, Monk, and too many other good dramas to mention. However when you turn to the major networks they simply show one copied worn out reality show after another.

Things I Wish I Knew About Solaris When I First Started.

Solaris 10 is a very powerful scalable operating system that feels tightly integrated and highly responsive. However for those of us with a strong Linux or FreeBSD background Solaris can feel a little unfamiliar and even downright confusing. This post is made up of a few things I wish I knew before I started my Solaris 10 adventure. I hope it will make things a little easier for those of you wanting to take the plunge into a true enterprise operating system.