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#35
 11-19-2009 12:00 AM |
I will eventually finish this blurb on my OpenBSD gateway. If I won the lottery, I would make this a full time job. In the meantime, I'm playing cowboys and Indians, 5 days a week.
Stay tuned.
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Overkill is the way to go (sometimes)
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#33
08-13-2009 10:56 PM |
From a dlink DI-604 to an old Optiplex GX-1 acquired for 50$ (CDN!) running smoothwall, we're talking a step up here buddy pal. Got that box with 768MB of PC-100 SDRAM! Do you really think I was going to settle for less ?
First, I decided I was going to run OpenBSD. OK, I'm Canadian  An when I installed FreeBSD, it barfed at my French Canadian keyboard 
But, more to the point, PF was born with OpenBSD. So why the hell not.
OK, so do I recycle my GX-1 ? Build a new mini-IT
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The hell with all this madness!
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#32
 08-11-2009 09:50 PM |
Really! Let's ramble about home networking. I've always been turned on by technology.
Have to know how things work. Ever since I was a kid. I stripped apart my first toaster at 8. Then on to bigger and better things. Like my Dad's stereo. Not my best idea, but I got it apart and back together before he got home from work. Which brings me to «Home networking from scratch». This evolving pet project now sports a wired LAN, wireless access point, web proxy with content filtering, DNS server, N
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I'll take a day off, and flank them!
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#31
04-11-2009 09:20 PM |
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«They can't find the will.» Pardon me ? No they don't want to find the will. « We told your mother we are glad she took care of our father. This is what we wanted her to do». Scumbags. Louis was such a nice guy. He gave his shirt many times in his life. I don't get it. All if his children are scumbags, all three of them. Different kind of scumbags, but scumbags nevertheless. He's dead: dollar signs. Meanwhile back at the ranch, my mother (they lived together for 17 years), who took care of him
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Time is not linear!
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#30
03-15-2009 08:39 PM |
I see my mother every couple of months. Saw her 2 months ago, she did not look like the 81 year old woman she is. Maybe 70ish. Tops. About a week after I was at her place, her boyfriend (they're not married), was admitted to the hospital. They'd been living together for 16 years. He was 84. I still can't believe that 10 years ago, they re-roofed their house. Crazy people. But that's my mother. No mountain too high.
So for the last 7 weeks, she's been taking care of him at the hospital. Bus
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Progress!
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#29
02-20-2009 12:01 AM |
Rising economies!
Top 1%: 16% of wealth
Top 5%: 38% of wealth
Top 10%: 53% of wealth
Bottom 80%: 30% of wealth
Bottom 50%: 8% of wealth
Bottom 20%: 1% of wealth
Bottom 10% 0.2% of wealth
«About 35% of people live on less than US$1 a day. »
That means 35% of 1.15Billion, 525 Million people.
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Adios Tonto!
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#27
06-26-2008 10:46 PM |
So how does a functional dysfunctional cope with «normal» life.
You fake it!
And, once in a while, you disappear from the face of the earth to script your next performance 
That's my plan for the week-end. And if you're reading this and wondering.
I'll tell you.
Next time you see an entry, I'm back! If not, well you come up with your own twisted conclusions
Or, could be that my mother is clairvoyant.
duh?. Well, read on!
When my father died, my mother had a
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Is this it ? (part 1)
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#26
06-19-2008 10:59 PM |
«I'm afraid you only have a few weeks to live.»
«Excuse me ?»
As the words came out, I realized I asked for the form, to be polite I guess. Doctors expect you to ask and look surprised, shocked. I already knew. I've known for a while , really, and have come to terms with it. I think it kinda snuck up on me, silently. I was once immortal, as most humans are at one point in time. Maybe when you're in that phase where you think you're immortal, you have yet to realize the value of life. I'll
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