Vista Complete-PC backup to network share The real magic of the new Vista backup tool is the second option Complete-PC backup. This feature takes advantage of the HAL independence of Vista and allows you to backup your entire system at one time using the magic of volume shadow copies to backup open files. The backup is also stored in a virtual …

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Iphone Fun I have spent the last couple weeks breaking the Iphone in every way possible. I Now have it running as a mail server. One of the great things about the iphone is that it is running mac os x leopard, which is just version 9 of the darwin kernel. That means that once you get out of the ch-rooted environment on the phone, you can install …

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 …

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 …

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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 …

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 …

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+ …

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 …