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Wifi Hotspots in Wedgewood, Laurelhurst and Ravenna
OK, I get stuck waiting for meetings around the Childrens Hospital quite a bit. If you don’t want to brave the traffic at U-Village, what are the options. As an aside if you are in UVillage, “World Wraps”: http://seattle.wifimug.org/index.cgi?WorldWraps does have free Wifi and is less crowded than Starbucks by alot. Well, there are some…
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Puzzles and Computers
Calvin wanted to work with someone to combine a love of puzzles and a love of computers. Here are some ways to do that: “Cryptogram.java”:http://www.cs.utsa.edu/~wagner/laws/Acryptogram.html are a really fun kind of puzzle. The simplest is the substitution cypher. One letter in English is translated directly into another. Writing a program to do this isn’t too…
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FutureWeapon
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AppleTV’s many uses
I haven’t paid much attention to the AppleTV. After all, I watch lots of movies off the internet. Not just the stuff that Apple wants to sell me. However, “iClarified.com”:http://iclarified.com in addition to doing great work on the iPhone also knows how to hack the AppleTV. It is a subsidized device, so for $300, you…
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Data Update Kerio, Exchange and Asterisk
Well, spent some time getting Kerio running on my MacBook. It is amazing how small a mail application is. Just 50MB. * Loading Kerio is pretty easy and then you have to figure the firewall issue. * I used Dyndns.com to let me direct a DNS name to my laptop behind a comcast router. This…
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Cool Math Testing Website
FreeRice Cool Site for donating rice to hungry people by answering vocabulary word questions.
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Data in the 21st Century
Well, how about handling data traffic in a modern small business. In our shop eight years ago, we ended up quite conventional. We have: * a 100Mbps Ethernet and a 802.11b/g 2.4GHz Wifi access point outside the firewall. * In house, we an bunch of rack mounted servers. We’ve got an Exchange Server, a Blackberry…
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Business Phones in the 21st Century
Now that we are trying to setup our Seattle suboffice, we have a chance to do things a bit different. In our original office setup 8 years ago, we went safe. We have: * An inhouse PBX called Intersat or something like that and have T-1s that connect to it and another T-1 for data.…
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All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men to nothing
A wonderful quote from “Edmund Burke”:http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Evil
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Downtown Seattle Restaurants
Ok with the new sub office, getting to restaurants is way more fun than a chicken wrap at the Bellevue Club. Here are some restaurants we’ve been to and some others to try: # Place Pigalle, it seems a long way, but it is just a few blocks to Pioneer Square. The meal there is…