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Indianapolis is an almost great place to live

Central Indiana is not the best place on the planet to live, but it’s pretty good in almost all respects.  There is not one thing that makes it stand out, the fact is that everything is pretty good.  For example: One of the lowest costs of living in the country. Easy to get almost anywhere.  [...]

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Passwords

Last weekend I went to a wedding in Chicago.  While I was waiting in a long line at the hotel with my six year old son, he noticed that there was a door with a digital keypad to get back behind the counter.  He asked me what the code was to get back there.  I [...]

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Edgemarc 4500 Multiple Port Forwarding

We’ve had quite a few people ask how to forward multiple ports on an Edgemarc 4500.  Here are the user commands: iptables -I FORWARD -i eth1 -d <internal IP> -p tcp –dport 10000:20000 -j ACCEPT iptables -A PREROUTING -t nat -p tcp –dport 10000:20000 -d <outside IP> -j DNAT –to <internal IP>:10000-20000 iptables -A POSTROUTING [...]

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Risk

I have believed for a while that quality of life depends directly on the amount of risk you are willing to take. Part of a person’s risk tolerance must be genetic, but a portion of it is certainly choice. I took very little risk in my life until my late 20’s. Even since then, I’ve [...]

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ATT 3gvs. Verizon 3g test results

In an unofficial 3G data test of dozens of points in the Northern Indianapolis area, Verizon consistently beats ATT in 3G download speed and trounces ATT in upload speed.  The test phones were an ATT  iPhone 3GS vs.  Verizon HTC Droid Eris and Verizon Motorola Droid.  Tests were run using the speedtest.net app for Android [...]

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Communication

A few weeks ago our Webmaster Allan, asked me to play poker with him and his friends on Thursday nights.  The only catch is that they speak Spanish and I do not – at all.  I took four years of French in high school.  No Spanish, and more importantly no Venezuelan Spanish Slang, which is [...]

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Evernote

I tried out Evernote over the weekend.    From the site, it is described as: “Evernote allows you to easily capture information in any environment using whatever device or platform you find most convenient, and makes this information accessible and searchable at any time, from anywhere.” Basically it is a web app that allows you to [...]

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ATT

I have spent over two hours on the phone with ATT Friday and today trying to get a simple DSL account provisioned at one of our client’s remote offices.  Everyone I talk to at ATT is very nice, except for their automated attendent who is incompetant and should be scrapped – the slightest background noise [...]

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Web server

In the process of putting in an additional web server to further speed up client websites.

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Debt of gratitude

I would like to thank dml2912 on the Dell Community forums.  I don’t know who you are, but your post solved a problem for me on my Dell D830 laptop that has nagged me since I got it over a year ago – stuttering audio.  It was a simple fix, but one that a dozen [...]

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