Month: April 2006

Looks like my psion 5 is on its last legs. It keeps rebooting. I am guessing a ribbon cable or a short somewhere. I took it apart and there are two plasic lugs that the hinges for the screen connect are broken as well.

So does anyone have one sitting in a cupboard somewhere that they are not using and would be interested in parting with? 9 Years isn’t bad for a piece of electronics.

I was having a discussion with a coworker about the age of programmers/it geeks. To me it seems that there is a generation geek that were born say 1970-1985 that grew up with computers that you had to work to use. As I go to conferences and places like defcon I tend to see the same people only each year they are getting older. I don’t think there is as many younger people getting in to the security space. After reading this http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/04/28/2236239&from=rss I am wondering how many people will be interested enough in programming to choose it as a career.

I think I have solved my disappearing mail problem. Seems I was pointing to an backup mail server that was responding mailbox not found when an email tried to deliver email to it.

This is going round my group of friends

The Best home made lighsaber duel ever!
http://videosift.com/story.php?id=630

I have a craving for a buttery (aka Aberdeen roll). Maybe I should just go get lunch

Some mornings I wake up wondering if I am truly a geek. I spent most of last night trying to work out why internet explorer wouldn’t open email attachments and then open word to view it.

Then I look at my computer collection
1) webserver with a
2) vmware instance running asterisk
3) file server with 3×120 gig hard drives running in raid
4) Two email servers running
5) firewall with 5 nic ports
6) at least 3 network drops in every room
7) HD tivo that I can telnet into
8) main computer has 2 17inch flats

Am I geek, or someone pretending to be one.

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