Feb
23
2007
Last thursday, Comcast decided to ban me from their internet service. This came without warning, and left me with no internet for nine days. That isn’t completely true, as I have Verizon EVDO service, DSL in the office, and free wifi all over the city. But it wasn’t even close to the same because my […]
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Feb
19
2007
After a long wait, I finally got my new laptop. I bought a Lenovo X60 Tablet that has a core duo 1.8ghz cpu, 2gb ram, 100gb 7200rpm sata hdd, and a 12″ SXGA+ (1400×1050) screen. Microsoft Windows XP Tablet Edition is installed, but I do get a free business upgrade to Vista by filling […]
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Feb
16
2007
Two months ago I received a call from Comcast’s High Speed Internet Security Assurance Center telling me to reduce my bandwidth consumption. My thoughts from that call can be found here. Yesterday, I came home to disconnected internet service. I tried the usual power reset, which resulted in a full connection, and shortly after completely […]
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Feb
11
2007
In a previous post I mentioned that the RSA Conference reminded me of Linuxworld in 2000 because of all the money vendors spent on their booths, and from all the SWAG. So what type of goodies did I get?
Five shirts this time from Security University, Watchfire, SPI Dynamics, Narus, and AirDefense.
Sunbelt had a nice Messaging […]
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Feb
09
2007
Vendors love to throw parties, and at the RSA conference this week, it was no different. There were several each day, but I only attended the nCircle and SPI Dynamics parties on Wednesday night. I was planning on attending the security bloggers meetup, but I didn’t make it mainly due to the location and the […]
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Feb
08
2007
This year’s RSA Conference Expo reminded me of the Linuxworld Expo in 2000… there were magic shows, tons of raffles, booth babes, and lots of SWAG. Now is this what an expo is supposed to be like!
I don’t remember what vendor this guy was with, but someone did ‘win’ a usb key from box number […]
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