Bad Ass House Gun for the Deacon...

I went gun-shop hopping with RedBoy tonight. I didn't get anything, but he picked up a short, handy, Stoeger 12GA Coach Gun.

Change We've Known Before...

Rahm Emanuel? Eric Holder? Hillary Clinton? Tom Daschle? Janet Napolitano?

BWA HAAAHAAAHAAAHAAAA

Altho to be fair, pretty much every Donk technocrat in the past two decades has been a Clintonista.  Pickin's are slim.

For you Geeks...

On the way home I stopped at my daughter's to set up a wireless router she scammed from my son so that she could access her laptop while RedBoy would be monopolizing the house computer.  The following assumes you know a bit about computers...as there were no problems, I'm not going over all the checks I did to ensure nothing was too far from default starting configuration.

Hint...

Download the manual for the (used) router BEFORE you unhook the Internet, idiot.

Plug the cable modem into the router's WAN port with a CAT5 cable.
Plug the house computer's NIC into one of the router's switch ports with a CAT5 cable.
Reboot the cable modem so it gives it's public IP address to the wireless router.  On the house computer, release and renew the DHCP address so the house machine gets a new private IP from the router.  (If you don't know how to do that, reboot the computer).
Check that the house computer can get on the Internet.

Then...
Reset the fucking wireless router to factory defaults so the username/password in the manual will work.
Configure the wireless router with a security WEP code.  Run the Wizard if you have to.
Configure the laptops wireless utility with the same WEP code. Laptops are all different...this was an Apple.  Piece of Cake.

Voila!!   Internet on the Laptop.

Easy Squeezy.  I was there an hour, and watched RedBoy play Wii for half of it.

Note:  Pretty much all of these home-owner sized wireless routers come with built-in wizards to set up wireless.  They all act as DHCP servers to give private IP addresses to anything that attaches to them by wire or wireless.  These little devices all do NAT (Network Address Translation)  to translate private internal IP addresses to usable public addresses for the Internet.  They ALL have a username and password protecting the management console...hence the reset cuz my son never gave my daughter the current password.  On this one there was a hole you stuck a pin into for 10 seconds.

Another interesting fact:  Most of these devices do PAT (Port Address Translation).  That means with some configuration you can set it up to be able to attach to your home machine from anywhere on the InterWeb.  I connect to my home machine this way...via Web, FTP, DameWare, and Terminal Services.

In the real world, I have spent days installing $500 Wireless Access Points on every floor of a building, moving them around to ensure the best coverage, mooshing them into a Domain architecture, and installing wireless USB connectors on dozens of machines.

Stock Up...

Remember, remember, the 19th of November...

Obama Joke of the Day...

In response to Obama's complaint that FOX News doesn't show enough Black and Hispanic people on their network,


FOX has announced that they will now air 'America 's Most Wanted' TWICE a week.

Inauguration Now...

Make your Own...

Comments of the Day...

So consider this, my fellows in arms: On Tuesday, the Left - armed with the most attractive, eloquent, young, hip, and charismatic candidate I have seen with my adult eyes, a candidate shielded by a media so overtly that it can never be such a shield again, who appeared after eight years of a historically unpopular President, in the midst of two undefended wars and at the time of the worst financial crisis since the Depression and whose praises were sung by every movie, television, and musical icon without pause or challenge for 20 months ... who ran against the oldest nominee in the country's history, against a campaign rent with internal disarray and determined not to attack in the one area where attack could have succeeded, and who was out-spent no less than seven-to-one in a cycle where not a single debate question was unfavorable to his opponent - that historic victory, that perfect storm of opportunity ...

Yielded a result of 53 percent.

- Capt Morgan

I think the Democrats privately don't really believe that there have yet been vast structural changes, so they will ensure they occur: get rid of talk radio via the fairness doctrine; trials and hearings for former Bush officials; open borders and amnesty or 'earned citizenship,' and no more secret ballots for union members. All of that could help to ensure lasting Democratic majorities-and I think we will see it all come to pass.

-VDH

My Day...

One of my readers asked me to include some computer stuff on the blog, so on days I do something interesting I'll do so.

I am spending a couple of days covering for the NetAdmin at a well known company.  He's recovering from surgery.  Today and tomorrow his 2nd is out also.

Today I installed Backup Exec on a couple of HP 64 bit Windows 2003 servers.  I did not build the servers, but I did install them as Domain Controllers a month or two ago.  About a year ago I installed a Reo NAS for these guys and built another BUE server to backup to shared iSCSI storage (superfast) 

Note:  Installation of BUE failed on one machine because it had (dot)Net v2 sp1 installed.  I had to remove SP1 to get installation to work   BUE installs its own (dot)Net v2.0.

I installed and configured a couple of 400 GB SCSI tape drives and inventoried and labeled 10 tapes.  I created backup jobs and ran a BU of each machine.  At 500 GB/min, it went pretty quick...fast machines.  Remember to test the restore function.

Note:  The default for media sets is to "never overwrite".  You have to set the media set to "append then overwrite" as well as setting the timeout for "overwrite protection" to a time low enough to expire before the tape is used again.

Took a couple of hours.

The rest of the time today I worked (remotely) on configuring LiveMeeting on a Communications Server and figuring out why the LiveMeeting update wouldn't work on my laptop (you can't have LiveMeeting Outlook Add-on on the same machine you have Exchange Management Console on - and I've got shitloads of Management programs on my laptop)..  I did some troubleshooting on a DNS replication problem, fixed a big honkin' Kyocera printer, investigated a Bluetooth connectivity problem, and tested (unsuccessfully) an AirCard.

I have no clue yet what I will do there tomorrow.  Friday I'm hoping to upgrade a ASA5510 Cisco Firewall to a version that will allow it to accept Cisco AnyConnect VPN clients, and configure the IOS to do so.  Fun Stuff for me.  I'd like to fix the Bluetooth connectivity problem too, but that's more difficult...the Treo model phone I'm dealing with specifically blocks the feature I want...but I think I found a tweak on a forum.

That's pretty much my typical day...just replace what I did with anything else you can think of...hardware from Firewalls to SANs, software from client stuff to Server based, everyday is new.  Most times I have no idea what I'm doing...but I know the secret - no one else knows what I'm doing either.

Update:  On the way home I get a call that a company's email server has crashed right in the middle of a buyout.  When I get home I remote into their system and fix the problem in about an hour and a half.  The owner of that company calls one of our directors to thank him for the fast reaction.  Our director didn't realize it had been fixed already.

Sometimes things go right.

Rosie returns to The View...

Obama Joke of the Day...

While suturing a cut on the hand of a 75 year old rancher, who's hand was caught in the gate while working cattle, the doctor struck up a conversation with the old man. Eventually the topic got around to Obama and his bid to be our president.

The old rancher said, 'Well, ya know, Obama is a 'Post Turtle''.

Not being familiar with the term, the doctor asked him what a 'post turtle' was.

The old rancher said, 'When you're driving down a country road and you come across a fence post with a turtle balanced on top, that's a 'post turtle'.

The old rancher saw the puzzled look on the doctor's face so he continued to explain. 'You know he didn't get up there by himself, he doesn't belong up there, and he doesn't know what to do while he's up there, and you just wonder what kind of dumb ass put him up there to begin with'.

Happy Birthday...

Obama Joke of the Day...

Have you heard that Obama is getting his daughters a puppy?

He's going to take one from somebody who has too many puppies, and spread the puppies around.



Address Gun Violence in Cities: As president, Barack Obama would repeal the Tiahrt Amendment, which restricts the ability of local law enforcement to access important gun trace information, and give police officers across the nation the tools they need to solve gun crimes and fight the illegal arms trade. Obama and Biden also favor commonsense measures that respect the Second Amendment rights of gun owners, while keeping guns away from children and from criminals who shouldn't have them. They support closing the gun show loophole and making guns in this country childproof. They also support making the expired federal Assault Weapons Ban permanent, as such weapons belong on foreign battlefields and not on our streets.

Oopsy, the joke is on us...

Obama Joke of the Day...

Obama Joke of the Day...

Q. Why is Barack Obama so thin and scrawny?
A. If he were any heavier he wouldn't be able to walk on water.

The Three Pillars of Freedom...

The Ballot Box, The Soap Box, and the Cartridge Box.

One down.  The 'Fairness Doctrine' will be two.  That leaves one.  And they ain't getting my guns.

In other words, No Sale...


fucking Tools, get used to it.

...and from ACE