My iPaq

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I have been thinking of selling my iPaq. Well I have been thinking of selling allot of devices I have just to clean house and get some cash, but I digress. I don’t need the iPaq, but I like the screen. it is easy to read off of.

I may just keep it because of that easy reading feature. I like ebooks and I cannot read them off my Treo as much as I would like to. I got the iPaq for free so it isn’t costing me anything to get rid of it. I should just keep it. No more rambling from me!

I don’t want this blog to be a rambling of tech stuff. Oh, too late.

Pix Configuration Problems

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I am having a problem with the new Pix. I think it is a minor issue, but I just cant figure it out. I am trying to make a second static VPN tunnel, and the pix keeps telling me the crypto map is not complete. I am doing nothing different from the first tunnel I created but it still wont work. I am going to call Cisco and try to figure out what the deal is.

Man I Have Been Lazy

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I have been so lazy the past 3 days. I wrote a bunch of blog entries and I have not updated any of them to the site. I will do that when I get home tonight, I hope.

Another website note, my site is currently down. The blog and mob are up, but my regular site is down. I unplugged it when I took down my wireless point / router. I will bring it back up when I move. It is not worth redoing that now when I am moving in a few days anyway. I may end up moving my site off to my friend Miguel’s server he hosts.

T-Minus 6 Days

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No major news to report in my move preparation. Jayson, Gretchen, and I are trying to goto Ikea sunday. I want to look for a new wall unit so I don’t have to bring my old one with me when I move. Jay and Gretchen want new couches. Hopefully we get out there. The problem is Ikea is out on long island so they would have to take the train to me and then we would have to drive. The problem is (major reason I am moving) that no subway goes near my place now. You have to take the rail road. And that is expensive and a pain in the ass due to the schedule. Only 6 more days to worry about that!!!

T-Minus 7 Days

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Just as the subject says. Seven days until my move. My apartment is full of box’s, bubble wrap, and tape. I have spent a decent amount on box’s. I have tons of them at work but I don’t want to travel to the office to get box’s so I went to staples and bought even more box’s yesterday.

I have allot of the packing done. I need to pack up my computers, TV gear and clothing and then I am mainly done. I have a few misc items that still need packing, but I got allot done this week.

I cannot wait to get this move over with. More news as it develops.

Mini Pix

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After some consideration I went out and bought a Cisco Pix 501e. You may be wondering why in the world a person needs one of those. Need may not be the word, but I do have uses for it. In the past 24 hours I have learned more about IKE tunnels than I had in the past 12 months. Allot of what I want it for is work related, but I doubt they will pay for it so I got one.

I want to prove (i know it can be done, but me doing it and having someone say it can be done are two different things) that I can setup a static VPN tunnel securely and allow a VOIP phone to connect to our office. I want to be able to lock down the connection so only the voice traffic we want can go over the VPN. It will work since to my office pix, it is just connecting to another office with a pix. The 501 is exactly the same as the larger 515 but you can only do less. The config and the PDM is all the same.

It is very cool. The only problem I am having is that I cannot initiate a VPN client connection through my pix to another pix somewhere else. We have this problem at work, and I have not been able to find a fix for it. I need to call Cisco about it. It is a pain, but not a show stopper.

I showed jayson what we can do with the personal Pix and he wants one, but he just got a big screen tv so he is not spending anything for a while.

Firefox Vs. Mozilla Vs. I.E.

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I downloaded Mozilla’s Firefox 0.91 last night for my Mac. To me it didn’t seem that much different from Mozilla 1.7. Not sure what advanced features they were touting but it just looked like a stand alone version of Mozilla to me. It had better import / export of bookmarks. Other than that, not sure what the big deal is. I will probably start using it, but only because I don’t need or want the newsreader or email client that comes with mozilla.

I find it funny that the government is telling people that Mozilla is more secure than IE. It probably isn’t. it is just less used, so less people using something equals less people trying to exploit it. I still think mozilla is a better browser. We have been pushing mozilla as a browser in my company for over a year. We love it. This past attack on IE reinforces my decision to go with Mozilla. Like I said it probably is not more secure, but in reality it will be attacked less, since fewer people use it. I think that theory is holding up.

A Week And Two Days

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I have a week and 2 days to go until I move. Of course I am an adult and don’t need to count down to this sort of thing. It is really a week and a day if I don’t count today!!!

I didn’t get my monthly rail road ticket since I am moving. I just bought a weekly. They are more expensive per ride than a monthly. Thankfully I am only getting a weekly this week and maybe a few daily’s next week. I already have my stand-alone unlimited ride metro card for the month.

Things in my old place are in limbo. I have needed to buy groceries for almost a month but I don’t want to buy anything for my new place. I have been ordering out so I can eat. My freezer is almost empty. My fridge is almost empty. I will run out of some critical items a bit early, so I may need to do a mini shopping.

June Photo Album Uploaded

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I have uploaded my June camera phone pictures to my photo website. Not everything I photograph gets sent to my MOB, so this is everything I shot in June. I have been doing a monthly page since I got my Treo 600. Lots of apartment pictures and pieces of hardware this month. Also got our construction in kingston on “film”

The misc photos of computer hardware were taken because I am moving and I wanted photos of everything I might want to ebay. Turns out most of the stuff I have is not worth selling. The $20-50 a pop for the stuff is not worth the effort. I will just hold onto most of it since I may end up needing it in the future. Never know what I want to build.

Also some great shots of Morgan. She is so cute, but I am biased since I am her uncle.

HBH-65 Update

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The headset is good so far. The phone I am using with it (Sony Ericsson T610) right now sucks. You don’t really know how good or bad a phone is until you use another one in the exact same places and get totally different results. This time I used the T610 on my trip up from NYC to Kingston. On the train my Treo normally backs out allot, so did my verizon phone. In the cab from the train station I am usually able to make calls, and sometimes have spotty service. With the T610 I had almost no coverage at all on the entire trip. In the cab from the train I had no signal until I was 5 minutes from the office, and our office has a T-Mobile tower in the same building complex.

The headset worked well when I had good cell signal. No complaints from people about voice quality. I probably wont use the headset that much since the phone sucks. I am sticking with my Treo 600 for now. It actually gets a signal. Palmone, please put bluetooth on the Treo!!!