Does a linux systems engineer have a life? I’m up at 3am working. I was up from midnight to 1:30am working as well. I will get up at 6am to go to work for 10-12 hours. The rest of the time I’m monitoring system messages to make sure everything is working properly and responding to [...]

So the first thing you’ll notice about my Apple iPhone journey is that having the iPhone hasn’t made me a consistent blogger. This really isn’t the fault of the iPhone, however. Since I have an entire month to cover, the coverage will undoubtedly be wide rather than deep. But I will do my best not [...]

So I’m a little bit late getting to my Day Three update, but I don’t want anyone to miss out on the adventure so here it goes… When I last put my phone to bed on Saturday night, I left a couple of tasks in the queue for Sunday. They were: * Download useful applications [...]

I have had the iPhone for one day. I have activated the iPhone, upgraded it to version 2.2, set up my email, calendar and contacts and loaded it with my favorite podcasts. Next on my agenda is to “jailbreak” the iPhone. By doing this I will: 1. Gain access to an even larger body of [...]

So it is day one of my Apple iPhone adventure. Next I opened the back of my HTC 8525 and removed the battery, exposing the AT&T sim card. I then removed the sim card from my current phone and inserted it into the iPhone. Then I plugged the iPhone into my laptop using the USB [...]

I’ve been so busy with work I haven’t had time to take care of my network and system infrastructure at home. Anyone in this business knows that our setup at home is at least as good and at least as complex as our setup at work. Generally this is a source of frustration for our [...]