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Jon asked me to post this essay written by our friend. Life as an Immigrant By Marc Brands From 1993 to 1996 I did an apprenticeship in Electronics Engineering at Siemens. In Switzerland apprenticeships are very common, students attend about 16 hours of classes... (More)

Posted by joyful on October 17, 2007, 3:59 pm
Category: General

X-Ray Vision?

So - where can I buy one of these ? (More)

Posted by jondaley on October 16, 2007, 10:33 am
Category: Internet, Reviews

Fairly Mindless Entertainment

This game would be better if it were random, but still kind of fun. I think 17 seconds was my high score on my desktop, and I just it again before posting on my laptop, and I only got to 11 seconds. Perhaps I am just more tired, or else it might be showing the difference between a... (More)

Posted by jondaley on October 11, 2007, 7:34 pm
Category: Internet

Nifty Video

A bunch of people made a neat video of a lot of kids using augmentative communication devices. My guess is that most of the devices are made by DynaVox , the company where I currently (for a little while longer) work. It is neat to see our technology making a difference in... (More)

Posted by jondaley on October 10, 2007, 8:50 am
Category: Reviews

Anti-spam tool for Web Forms

I got a couple spams through my Lime Daley contact form the last couple days, so I took another look at the script that I was using. I wrote it a year or two ago, and was my first attempt at writing an anti-spam tool that was designed to have a 0% false negative rate (ie. humans can't... (More)

Posted by jondaley on October 4, 2007, 8:36 am
Category: Internet, Reviews

Kill-A-Watt

Peter was nice enough to loan me a Kill-A-Watt for a couple weeks to investigate power usage around our home. I have thought about buying one before, but borrowing one is certainly better, though it is quite a bit of fun to test out devices to see how much power they use. I... (More)

Posted by jondaley on September 25, 2007, 8:25 pm
Category: Reviews

Organizing for your Brain Type

Here is a brief review of Organizing for your Brain Type by Lanna Nakone . This is a neat book that gives some explanation about why some people have trouble keeping things organized and why some have trouble understanding those others. She puts people in four different groups,... (More)

Posted by joyful on September 22, 2007, 1:20 pm
Category: Reviews

Using tcpd_wrappers with pure-ftpd

pure-ftpd isn't designed to work with TCP wrappers, which is unfortunate, because then I can't simply add an ip address to /etc/hosts.deny to block the hackers when they guess passwords. But, since the hackers have tried to login to my servers thirty thousand times this month, and... (More)

Posted by jondaley on September 19, 2007, 4:04 pm
Category: Programming

Always Assume the Best

Mom wrote recently about thinking the best , and Janet just got back in touch with a lost friend whose email was misbehaving. Now it is my turn to be on the receiving end of a gracious friend thinking the best of me.Our friend Sanda, who grew up in Romania, is now staying in our house... (More)

Posted by joyful on September 19, 2007, 3:15 pm
Category: General

Speaking at IVCF

I was recently asked to speak at IVCF at CMU on the topic of Christian view of success and vocation. I am supposed to talk for 15 minutes, which will probably go very fast, so I need to be more concise than I usually would be. Our topic for this Large Group is the Christian view of success... (More)

Posted by jondaley on September 14, 2007, 1:43 am
Category: Reviews

Spammers

I hadn't checked my log file in a while for my Lime Daley contact page , but happened to check it today. There have been 438 spams sent in the last two months, and 2 legitimate emails. The spam filter (I wrote it - which is probably why it works - that my site isn't big enough for... (More)

Posted by jondaley on August 30, 2007, 10:57 pm
Category: Reviews

Camping and Fishing

We went camping last weekend with some friends from Providence Church and the Venables. We went to a fairly new, no RV, family-run place near Moraine State Park called Breakneck Campground . We arrived early, since we didn't have to wait for Jon to be done with work (yay Lime... (More)

Posted by joyful on August 23, 2007, 11:29 am
Category: General, Jonathan

Debian Updates vs. Windows Updates

Everyone always says how user-friendly Windows is, and as I sit here waiting for my Windows computer to endlessly update itself, I am struck by how much harder it is to update my Windows laptop than all of my Linux (Debian) servers put together. On Debian: Type "aptitude",... (More)

Posted by jondaley on August 23, 2007, 6:53 am
Category: Reviews

"You must dial a 1 for this call to go through"

I have been having lots of fun (that's the bad kind of fun, not the good kind) configuring Asterisk for my new IT job. It has been a pretty big pain getting it to work correctly with a couple different VOIP providers as well as the landlines. I had a good day today, figuring both how... (More)

Posted by jondaley on August 21, 2007, 5:25 pm
Category: Programming, Reviews

New Skills

At the Maggie P, Jonathan learned how to tie knots. Now he ties ropes all around the yard in a great booby-trap for potential robbers (or mail carriers.) He can also put a pillowcase on a pillow without assistance. And finally (to my slight sadness - isn't motherhood weird?)... (More)

Posted by joyful on August 15, 2007, 1:55 pm
Category: Jonathan