Barracuda Spam Firewall

Description (www.barracudanetworks.com): The Barracuda Spam Firewall is an integrated hardware and software solution for complete protection of your e-mail server. It provides a powerful, easy to use, and affordable solution to eliminate spam and viruses from your organization. Synopsis: Under normal circumstances, the Barracuda Spam Firewall only relays traffic for domains it is configured for. […]

2STF/1/4: MAC-IO ata-4 – Master

2STF/1/4 is Apple’s way of telling me they hate my soul and I should fuck off and die. Well, not really—it looks like I’ve actually succumbed to the infamous IBM Deskstar 120 GB drive failure. My rig started freezing intermittently on the evening of the 7th and the two 120 GB drives on my ATA/66 […]

Lift, Turn, Accelerate…

I’m confirmed and paid up for the Team O’Neil Rally School 2-Day Advanced Winter Driving Clinic the weekend of February 19th. For the low, low price of just $600 (normally $1,650) I’ll get to toss Chris Brenton’s WRX STi around on the snow-covered rally circuit with a professional instructor sitting shotgun. I won’t be driving […]

Model Release Resources and Samples

A month or two ago I was having a discussion with Andrew about model releases and subjects of photographs having federal protection against the use of their likeness in a commercial context. Although I incorrectly insisted that model releases were federally required, technically I was correct about subjects having protection at a federal level. Taken […]

iStockPhoto.com

I’ve started uploading random photos from my collection to iStockPhoto.com in hopes of bringing in a steady flow of nickel and dime cash. Am I whoring myself out below market cost? Yes. Would my Father ridicule me? Probably. Is it enough cash to treat my wife to dinner that I otherwise wouldn’t have? You bet! […]

I’d love a fake Rolex, just not from you…

I was the only kid in Junior High School with a Rolex. Of course it was purchased from a desperate street vendor in the middle of a torrential downpour in NYC who marked it down from $500 to a bargain $15, but that’s besides the point. With that said, that fake Rolex was the best […]

Olympus SmartMedia Card Error: Repairing/Recovering Corrupted Cards

Quite a few months ago my Father gave me a pile of large SmartMedia cards that stopped working in his Olympus digital camera. After a few months of use, each card slowly started reporting CARD ERROR on the camera LCD. I was able to use the cards in various other devices, but they never worked […]

Marketscore.com truly frightens me…

I noticed quite a few hits on my various domains from proxy servers at Marketscore.com, so I decided to do some digging. According to articles at Wired and Slashdot, Marketscore is a marketing and trends firm that installs tracking software on your machine that basically acts as big brother and watches every single Web site […]