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Today is the day that we are upgrading to Bell-Aliant FibreOp.  I have been on Aliant ADSL since, well, almost forever – whenever they brought out ADSL in the St. John’s metro area.  It was call Warp 3 service that … Continue reading →

I’m still having problem with USB 3 and Linux Mint; version 12 in this case.  I’m going back and trying the pci=nomsi option once again.  This is really, really annoying since all my VMware Workstation virtual machines reside on the … Continue reading →

I received notice today that, after submitting my audit information, I am now, officially a CISSP.  That is, I am a Certified Information Systems Security Professional.  Now all I have to do is read, read, read and attend conferences to … Continue reading →

FibreOp is finally to my neighbourhood!  I have my appointment booked for the first part of January to get it installed.  I am really looking forward to it because: a) it gets me off Rogers Cable services.  Not only is … Continue reading →

After running Linux Mint 11 for about four or five months, Mint 12 has come out following Mint’s usual release cycle of six months.  As I posted previously, I moved from Ubuntu after they moved to Gnome’s Unity with Oneiric … Continue reading →

My son saved up his money (and did chores like blowing the snow out of the driveway) and decided that he wanted to buy an Air Hogs Hawk Eye Blue Sky remote control airplane.  This thing is pretty neat – … Continue reading →

Okay – I’ve had my Seagate GoFlex Pro 500 GB external hard drive for some time now. It is USB 3 and I run Linux Mint 11. Like many others using Linux Mint (or Ubuntu) after some time, about an … Continue reading →

Well, I actually triumphed over the CISSP exam!  Our instructor said in our CISSP CBK boot camp that everyone would likely feel that they had failed (and, boy, was he right about that!) but that we also wouldn’t remember anything … Continue reading →

I upgraded my iPad “Classic” to iOS 5 yesterday. It took a fairly long time to download but at the time that I downloaded it it was fairly early. Once the upgrade was downloaded, the upgrade itself didn’t go too … Continue reading →

I read last night that Dennis Ritchie, the “father” of C and Unix has died.  Mr. Ritchie was 70. Rest in Peace Mr. Ritchie. root@earth_# shutdown -h now System halted.