What the heck is going on? Has Hollywood now totally devoid of any originality? Was there any to start with? Okay first they trash the Stepford Wives! Now they are going to screw up the The Manchurian Candidate. Why do they have to mess with a perfectly good movie? From the trailers it no longer looks as if it is Red China that is trying to control the US government hence the name The Manchurian Candidate. No it is now the new boogie man multi-national corparations that are the behind the plot. ARGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!

I have not seen it yet and it might even be a good movie but it is not the The Manchurian Candidate anymore than I Robot was I Robot.

Even though she or he has put me down as a foe. I read some of there posts and technicaly they where very good.

Well my project at work is moving along well. I do have to say that I HATE WINDOWS! I HATE WINDOWS, I HATE WINDOWS.
Get the feeling that I hate windows?
My CAD system was locking up left and right on me. I finaly did an uninstall/reinstall! Guess what it worked. How the heck does Windows allow executables to be trashed like that. Is the file system that bad?
My wife is now head of technical support so she now gets to have much of the fun I used to. It has not been easy for her but she is doing the best that she can. So far she has done a stellar job. Well the parts are being SLAd now and the LCD is on the way so all is going pretty well.

Ok, whoever may read this. I've set up a standard free blogging account with blogger.com. You can go there to read thoughts that I want to jot down. Chances are, I won't write anything much in my journal entry here. This may change, but given that I've been a slashdotter since before it had user accounts, and I've never bothered to make a journal entry here before, don't expect much.

I added Jgardn to my friend list.
He is brave enough to try and to the missionary thing on Slashdot. Of course you will have many people praiseing OSC for his artical on file shareing. I wounder how many people know that he is also LDS.
Good try. Sorry that you got flamed.

Who is them and who is us.
The Who are the extreme Right and the extreme Left.
My sig still gets comments. I really want to change it just for change sakes but I do want to let the bigots think they won. Truth is I have more tolerence for people that try to deny God than those that try and get Evolution kicked out of schools. There is not such thing as Scientifc Creationism. It is an oxymoron. However to deny God seems equally as stupid. Why God can not be proven the effects seew wide spread. Of course there are those that would point to the evil that has been done in God's name as an effect. Yet if you look that evil has always happened when men of power have twisted religion and convinced the weak minded to follow them. Just rember that Hitler and his friends where not Christians but where pagans. The where into the Norse Gods, Fire, and even there symbol was stolen from Hindism. Good old Stalin, Chairman Mao, and the current leaders of North Korea are all athists. Evil comes from all directions. So does good. One should not jump to a conclusion to the good or evil nature of a person just from the fact that they do or not believe in a God. I personaly think that Christ loves thoses that try to good without the benifit of his teachings every bit as much as those that believe in him. Well I guess I can take the comments of fools if it helps other to be more tolerent.

Well our computer room/den/scrapbooking room is up and running. I will not say it is done because is anything a programer does ever really done? Got the network working and the server is up and running. I still need to get the Windows box on the Samba server. We have a 120 gig drive on the server just for storage. I also got a 21" monitor at the computer show on staturday for $115 Yes that is the correct price. As well as two APC ups for $20 each. I need to get some more ram and maybe a faster cpu for the Linux workstation I have set up. It gets very slow sometimes It is only a 400mhz with 128 megs. But it works.

Man I wish I could write as well as my wife. Right now I am hoping to get our new computer room done tomarrow. It will be nice to get the computer stuff out of the family room and to have a place to work.

I can not take it anymore. I had a woman that was offended by her randomly generated password. It was slow5cobra. It is s stinking password. She DEMANDED that I change it. NO she can just sign up again and get a new randome password.
  I just can not stand stupid people anymore!!!!

The wireless IPsec link has been working flawlessly - the only problems I have encountered so far have been key lifetimes (they're too far short by default), and a power outage. The link is point to point via a middle hop, and this device is in another companies office.

They had an extended power outage the other day, and comms were lost...

Not too bad - over 3 months uptime without a hiccup :)

I'm still halfway through writing up the documentation - it will be linked here when its finished.

Well it seems that I got my wish and managed to tick off some idiots. One was in my message about hand writing. Mentioned that I had a friend that severed a mission for the LDS church. Got the lovley poligamy comment. Then of I got a fool that did not like my sig. Oh well people will be people. Most people seem to like my posts for the most part.

Interesting this is the first time I have looked at my settings. I was surprised to find I had two fans and exelent Karama. I guess I have to try harder to tick off people :)

Each end of the link is run by a Linksys WAP11 access point, hooked up to a FreeBSD firewall box running IPSec in tunnel mode.

The IPSec documentation is a little confusing on this type of setup, as it goes on about setting up a gif interface to use for tunnelling, however as far as I can see, its not required.

In my situation, instead of setting up a gif interface, I simply ended up using the NIC connected to the wireless bridge in its place - running tcpdump on either end is showing the packets as being ESP encrypted, so as far as I can see it all looks sweet.

Think I'll try putting together some documentation on it and submitting...