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Monthly Archive for March, 2006

Junk Mail is the Old Spam

Posted in idiots, money on Mar 29th, 2006

While spammers are on everyone’s mind these days, there’s still people who send junk mail… or in other terms, people who want my money. Sorting through the pile of mail, here’s a few things that caught my eye.

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Red Bull Boozing Studied

Posted in boozing on Mar 28th, 2006

Red Bull is in the news again. This time it is being reported by Forbes that energy drinks and alcohol don’t mix. Oh but they do!

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Transparent PIX Firewalls Across Foundry VLANs

Posted in archive, computing, troubleshooting on Mar 28th, 2006

When configuring a Cisco PIX in Transparent Mode to operate across VLANs, take caution when using Foundry’s Virtual Ethernet (VE) interfaces.
On firewalls from Cisco, Transparent Mode is a significant new feature of PIX 7.0, where the firewall can be configured to behave like a Layer 2 bridge. Previously PIX devices behaved like an ACL-enhanced Layer [...]

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Using LinkedIn for Networking

Posted in web sites on Mar 21st, 2006

LinkedIn fancies itself as a social networking site for managing relationships; similar to Orkut or MySpace, except targeting business professionals.

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Comet, the Clean Rice

Posted in food, oddities on Mar 14th, 2006

When you think of Comet, you probably think of the household cleaner. While perusing the weekly circulars, I discovered that there’s also a brand of rice that shares the same name.

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