December 30, 2008

Ebelskiver Filled-Pancake Pans!

Who knew a mini pancake pan could be so popular.  This Ebelskiver Filled-Pancake Pan at Williams Sonoma is sold out in the entire Bay Area and not available online until January 22!  Img2m

November 17, 2008

Spider

Spider-1

November 07, 2008

How to pitch your idea to venture capitalists.


Found via: NoVCRequired

October 30, 2008

Fixing Time Machine Error Code -43

Having issues with Time Machine backups on your new external hard drive?

Well the solution to Time Machine Error Code -43 is brought to you by WBTCZN on the Apple Forums.  "I stumbled on to the answer...I was in System Preferences to do something else and saw the Time Machine icon. I opened that one up and was able to change the drive...it was pointing to my FAT32 drive instead of the new drive."
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1367669

Billion Dollar Bailout Funds are Being Used by Banks to Buy Banks.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/25/business/25nocera.html?_r=2&scp=1&sq=nocera%20JPMorgan=cse&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

October 26, 2008

A link to my resume.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/7544925/Edward-Miller-Network-Engineer-Resume-2008

October 16, 2008

Free On The Fly Encryption

Truecrypt looks like a great free tool for encrypting USB drives  http://www.truecrypt.org/

October 13, 2008

Pac-Man Halloween Costume.

Pac-Man Costume

October 10, 2008

I'm a PC. (And I'm a Monkey..)

October 09, 2008

GRouter: Google Inventing Routers?

http://seeker.dice.com/jobsearch/servlet/JobSearch?op=302&dockey=xml/2/7/27aceebcb1044d87926d0abeea5ab780@endecaindex&source=19&FREE_TEXT=network+engineer&rating=99

The Job Ad reads as follows:

  • Google: Networking, FPGA/ASIC Hardware Engineer - Mountain View
  • Mountain View, CA

Description:
This position is based in Mountain View, CA.

The area: Network Engineering, Production

The end result of our teams work is the delivery of Googles products and services to users around the world. We build and operate Googles production network, which connects the server farms in data centers to each other and to the Internet.

The role: Networking, FPGA/ASIC Hardware Engineer

Our Networking Hardware Design Engineers develop the next generation networking products for all our services. This position targets the need to develop complex FPGA and ASIC solutions that increase the level of innovation in these networking solutions that help break industry price/performance barriers. You should have a broad background in LAN/WAN Ethernet networking HW design with an emphasis on FPGA/ASIC design and verification.

Google deploys a wide range of technologies and hence is looking for best of the breed Networking FPGA/ASIC Design/Verification Engineers that have strong depth in multiple areas. You should have a proven track record in FPGA/ASIC networking product development design and verification, supported with a background in high speed digital design, serial communication protocols, high speed memory systems, copper and optical interconnect technologies and embedded processor subsystem design.

Responsibilities:System Level HW Architecture.
Definition of Networking IP.
Design and Verification of FPGA/ASIC solutions.


Qualifications:
BS or MS in electrical or computer engineering or equivalent, with strong emphasis on networking product design preferred.
At least 5-10 years of network hardware architecture, design, and bring-up.
Thorough knowledge of component-level and integrated system testing.
10/100/1000/10000 Ethernet Experience.
PCI/PCI-E, Infiniband, Fiber-Channel.
IEEE Verilog, Physical Design and Timing Closure Experience.
FPGA/ASIC Verification experience with Vera/Specman/SystemVerilog/C++.

October 06, 2008

7 Great OS X Network & Systems tools

BBEdit the text editor
Chicken of the VNC
Fugu is a great SCP, SFTP, SSH client for OS X
Little Snitch Privacy Firewall
The Unarchiver extracts Zip, 7zip, Rar and other compressed files
Wireshark the standard packet analyzer
ZTerm is easy terminal emulation for direct console connections

October 05, 2008

Workaround broken SSH in OS X 10.5.5 with SSH -q

The recent update of OS X broke SSH.  To workaround use the -q switch.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=8144942

4 Steps to Jawbone 2 Bluetooth Pairing

Posting these simple instructions because they were difficult to find online because of so many other reviews and such...
Step 1. Turn device off.
Step 2. Setup phone for pairing.
Step 3. Hold the back curve button and the middle led area button down until you get a fast alternating white and red light.
Step 4. Enter 0000 for the code in your phone and pair up!


P.S. To turn off the blinking blue light on your BlackBerry go to "Setup Bluetooth", then [OK], then Options, then LED Connection Indicator, OFF, and Save.

October 03, 2008

Super Cool Security Applications.

Encrypted self destruct notes https://privnote.com/

Using Meerkat for Easy SSH Tunnels

PGP Whole Disk Encryption for OS X 

Track Your Stolen Mac with Adeona

September 22, 2008

LOLFED

AIG - O HALP! (via LOLFED)

September 11, 2008

"Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust."

National_Park_Service_9-11_Statue_of_Liberty_and_WTC_fire

"Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed. Never shall I forget that smoke. Never shall I forget the little faces of the children whose bodies I saw turned into wreaths of smoke beneath a silent blue sky.

Never shall I forget those flames which consumed my faith forever.

Never shall I forget that nocturnal silence which deprived me, for all eternity, of the desire to live. Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust. Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to live as long as God Himself. Never."  Elie Wiesel

Some Links.

Creating Passionate Users via Continuous yet Random Small Treats
How to be an Expert

Freelance Outsourcing

Scribd is an ok tool for posting documents

September 10, 2008

How Green Are Biofuels?

Biofuels_compare

Chemistry

Periodic Table of Videos.

August 02, 2008

Moving to TypePad.

Like That.

August 01, 2008

Using Google Docs to Create Webforms.

Using Google Docs to Create Web Forms!.
Check that solsie site, they moved the stupid link :/

July 21, 2008

Guide to Setting up GNS3 Virtual Routing

Don't Panic.

A great site that I found is Blindhog.net. Josh has a lot of great tutorials on GNS3.

July 20, 2008

Mac: Some additional thoughts on

Mac: Some additional thoughts on living with a new Macbook.

1. I have a bash shell by default. And I don't have to install cygwin (which bluescreened my xp.) I can script from my regular desktop!!!
2. I miss control+c and control+v, in apple land they use the command+c and command+v to do the same functions. Fortunately you can map the control key to the command key and viola everything is back.
3. I miss my home key, end key and my del key.
4. The keyboard on the mac feels better.
5. The vpn setup is easy and done through the airport icon at the top of the screen.
6. I have a sticky note with todos on my desktop.
7. I installed a few applications; MacPorts, Skype, VMWare Fusion, Office 08, Firefox (Foxmarks sync'ed my bookmarks), VLC, Maclock.

My Lenovo T61 didn't come with recovery discs, the software is on the HDD. I have a backup so I could pull i386 and burn a cd but it's not bootable from within VMWare. So I'm without Windows. I'm pretty ok with that right now as I can still get a lot of work done. I'm probably going to pull up Ubuntu image in VMWare for now.

With Macports I can get a lot more tools.

All the apps, even Firefox don't seem to take up so much RAM. I have 4GB but I don't see firefox taking over 1GB like it usually does, I'll need to test this a lot more.

The Mighty Mouse kicks ass. I would have had a much harder time adjusting were it not for the right click ability of the might mouse.

Spaces kicks ass.

July 19, 2008

Switching. A little black Macbook

Switching.

A little black Macbook with 250GB HDD and 4GB of RAM.

But it's so much more than that.

Goodbye Bluescreen.

I bought a brand new Lenovo T61 14.1 Widescreen less than 2 weeks ago. It came with XP Professional SP2. It crashed. I updated the drivers. It still crashed with IRQ errors. I removed the upgraded RAM. It still crashed. I used firefox and it crashed.

I couldn't go to Vista and XP was still so buggy.

Oh, and I have sticky notes on my desktop. :)

July 17, 2008

I bought CCIE.ME to blog

I bought CCIE.ME to blog my trials and tribulations toward CCIE certification.

July 16, 2008

A couple of really cool

A couple of really cool tools that I've discovered recently... GNS3 is an excellent graphical network simulator. Like visio but the routers run real IOS. It works good with 3640 IOS set at 128MB and don't forget to set the IDLEPC value in the default. Putty Connection Manager Rightmark CPU clock utility. Tweak your CPU to get more batter life or performance.... Process Explorer is a taskmanger. Virtual Box is like VMWare Workstation but FREE.

July 14, 2008

Crazy: 1st Person Video of

Crazy: 1st Person Video of Someone Getting Struck by Lightning.

July 04, 2008

Tools: I've been reviewing this

Tools: I've been reviewing this Fantastic page on stopping Junk Postal Mail.

June 25, 2008

Do Not Talk To The Police Ever!!!


Do Not Talk To The Police Ever

June 24, 2008

Startups: 17 Mistakes Start-ups Make.

Startups: 17 Mistakes Start-ups Make.

June 20, 2008

Time is only an observation.

Time is only an observation.

June 11, 2008

June 09, 2008

Finance: Mortgaging America, Investment funds

Finance: Mortgaging America, Investment funds run by foreign (OIL) governments are keeping the U.S. afloat. Science: R. Stanley Williams at HP Labs has invented Memristors--the fourth passive component type after resistors, capacitors and inductors. Reads: Free Downloadable Audio Books at SelfMadeScholar. Tools: Quicktate will convert your voicemail on the fly and email it to you. Securely delete files with Wipe File. WinFF is a nice Windows Video Converter based on FFMPEG.

May 30, 2008

LifeLock CEO, Todd Davis, gets his identity stolen!

LifeLock CEO Todd Davis, gets his identity stolen over 87 times.

May 06, 2008

Reads: Research Shows That Money Does Buy Happiness.

Reads: Maybe Money Does Buy Happiness.

April 20, 2008

the first one was called

the first one was called "little"

April 17, 2008

I like this Tattooed Lambo.

I like this Tattooed Lambo.

April 16, 2008

Travel: If you travel you

Travel: If you travel you need to be check out the following sites FlyerTalk, CouchSurfing, HostelWorld, OneBag, Linquist Travel Tips, 10 Sites for Cheap Flights, and finally Crazy Eric. Filesharing: Demonoid is BACK!!

April 06, 2008

Science: Carl Willis shows step-by-step

Science: Carl Willis shows step-by-step how to process Uranium in your kitchen.

February 21, 2008

Reads: America Risks the Mother

Reads: America Risks the Mother of all Meltdowns.

January 27, 2008

Economics: Bryan Caplan has some

Economics: Bryan Caplan has some good blog posts and an interesting looking book called The Myth of the Rational Voter. Fun: Bay Area Ski Bus. Self Improvement: Stickk helps you achieve your personal goals by using real economic incentives to guide your decisions. Software: A great review of free CD and DVD burning software. Startups: Help build a startup in 48 hours. Travel: According to Lessno, late Thursday night is a good time to check for the best deals."

January 26, 2008

The Secret History of the

The Secret History of the Silicon Valley

January 18, 2008

Business: The untold story of

Business: The untold story of the iPhone. Reads: Why Humans Have Sex and the Actual Research Results Here. Insane: You are a God among insects!

January 02, 2008

Read: 2008, The Year A

Read: 2008, The Year A New Superpower Is Born.

December 29, 2007

Routing TCP/IP Volume 1 and

Routing TCP/IP Volume 1 and Routing TCP/IP Volume II

November 05, 2007

Business: PetroChina's Value Tops $1

Business: PetroChina's Value Tops $1 Trillion, Surpassing Exxon Misc: Brew PR looks like a cool PR company. Cool: 20 Bar Tricks. Fake CallerID Cards.

October 02, 2007

Reads: Douglas Rushkoff on the

Reads: Douglas Rushkoff on the Technologies of Persuasion. For Sale: 1995 Honda Civic with only 939,899 miles for only $2300.

September 26, 2007

TV: If you haven't seen

TV: If you haven't seen it yet check out Samantha Brown's Travel Guides on the Travel Channel. It's great. Right now she's doing a tour of South America.

September 13, 2007

AMOR FATI.

AMOR FATI.

September 07, 2007

David Cowan on the Sales

David Cowan on the Sales Learning Curve.