Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 30th, 2010
OpenNMS has a sharp learning curve. While very useful in specific cases, the OpenNMS wiki lacks continuity and in some cases authoritative answers. It seems like every article is where somebody worked out the details of some specific problem and just dumped all the details into a wiki entry. The in-between bits aren’t clear and […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 21st, 2010
The changing season and weather here has been a trip. For the first month or two here, it was partially cloudy, but still quite a bit of sun. Even though it’s sunny, being outside has always felt weird. It took me a while to realize that because the sun is so low on the horizon, […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 29th, 2010
I got inspired this week to fiddle with OpenNMS. Reading the website makes me think it does * and has great potential. Looking at the modular design and the event system, it just “feels right”. It is Java-based with all XML-based configs, which really doesn’t bother me. I like the idea that it has built […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 25th, 2010
The other night I was driving home and in some random apartment window I see two girls with a baby. One was holding/rocking it while she was talking to the other girl. It made me think that’s a lifetime memory in the making that will be forever repeated to the child. “Oh I remember how […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 21st, 2010
If you’re like me, you have a home LAN filled with various contraptions, computers, mobile devices and the ubiquitous server in the closet. Usually there’s no DNS zone containing your home devices, if anything, maybe a static /etc/hosts entry on your desktop to give a short hostname to your closet server. Otherwise, people just use […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 17th, 2010
Normally I don’t think a lot about American culture, but the other day I realized just how profound the 60s was on America and the world. I’ve been listening to a Beatles station on Pandora for a couple of weeks, and the other day while working I was keeping an ear tuned to the lyrics […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 17th, 2010
It’s been a full week since I moved into my own apartment. It’s starting to feel more like I’m grounded now instead of being on four vacations for the past five weeks. Pretty much everything is put away or tossed in the bed-less bedroom. I’m trying hard not to buy all new furnishings from IKEA, […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 11th, 2010
Let’s say you’re operating on sketchy wifi and the quiet guy in the corner on his laptop is sniffing your traffic. Web is already easy, you fire up SSH port forwarding and tell your browser to use yourself as a proxy. Other apps aren’t so easy. Not everything supports/honors SOCKS5 proxies, or any sort of […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 7th, 2010
I finally found & leased an apartment yesterday! It’s a 2 bedroom, 1 bath, located in a mid-rise building in downtown Redmond. It’s a corner unit on the second floor, one side overlooks the courtyard and the other overlooks the street. I originally went to look at a 1 bedroom, which I didn’t like because […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 30th, 2010
I discovered today there’s a way to bring IPv6 connectivity to your iPhone, even if you don’t have v6 wifi nor v6 cellular data. There’s a Cisco AnyConnect client for iPhone which speaks SSL VPN (TLS/DTLS) to an ASA. The release notes say “Access to internal IPv4 and IPv6 network resources”. I take this to […]
