No, these acronyms aren't really related, but I figured they sum up my posting for today.

I've updated my RSS feed to support some sort of a standard, and have been added to a Planet #rpi, a conglomeration of RSS feeds from a number of prominent RPI students and alumni.  For some reason, updating the feed broke Firefox's live bookmarks.  I'll have to fix this sometime.

In other news, it looks like the root of my laptop woes might revolve around the evil ATI GPU.  I've seen Windows XP choke, and inform me that there was a hardware error with the graphics processor, at least twice today.  Hopefully I can get through the week with this piece of junk.

Oh, yeah, I should probably say "Go Yankees!" since there are a number of die-hard baseball fans here.

Sorry for the lack of updates recently.  I've been busy with work and travelling, lately.  I'm still stationed in Charlotte, NC, and will be until the 22nd of October.  Unfortunately, I didn't know this at the beginning, so I booked the hotel on a per-week basic.  Of course, now I have to go hopping from hotel to hotel, due to the NASCAR race in town, and a lack of vacancy anywhere.  Fun!

Recently, my Fujitsu E-7110 laptop started falling apart.  First, after attempting to suspend the machine with Linux's ACPI stuff, which failed, the machine does not turn on correctly from a cold boot, roughly 50% of the time.  Reflashing the BIOS didn't do anything, but I figured I could live with this.  Of course, a couple days ago, the mechanism that allowed the LCD to fold up and down, fell apart.  Not sure why, but that piece of metal doesn't turn anymore.  Therefore, the LCD panel is on the verge of falling apart, only being held in by one side.  This is all under warranty, but I'm doubtful if they will fix the LCD issues.  Since I really can't be without a notebook for 2-4 weeks, I've put in an "order" for a new IBM T42 to replace the Fujitsu, and will be getting that within a week or so.  If the Fujitsu is covered under warranty, I'll get it repaired, and eBay it.

I've gotten the KAME tools (specifically, Racoon) on Linux to work well with a Netscreen 500 firewall.  I'll post a howto when I get the chance.

So, it appears I missed the memo on the 4th of September from BT Exact, saying that the tunnel broker service will be down for a couple days.  So, yea, no prolixium.com IPv6 connectivity for awhile, I guess.

In other news, I've spent a week on business in Charlotte, North Carolina so far.  It's a pretty quiet town, and somewhat spread out.  Seems filled with technology parks, a nice corporate atmosphere.  I've gotten the chance to work with some high-end Netscreen hardware, and improve on my network troubleshooting skills.

Speaking of Netscreen hardware, I've been working lately on setting up a VPN tunnel between Linux 2.6 (using Racoon, and the KAME project) and Netscreen's ScreenOS.  It seems that the NAT-T (NAT traversal) feature of Racoon is either broken, or I completely misconfigured it.  The latter, most likely.  Once I get it working smoothly, I'll post a howto, since there seems to be a lack of complete documents on how to setup such tunnels.

It's been a fun (read: hectic) last two weeks.  Now, on Sunday, I'll be heading down to Charlotte, North Carolina to do some work for a client.  Should be a good experience, I hope to pick up a wealth of knowledge when I'm down there.  I hope Jeanne misses us ...

In other news, I picked up a Logitech MX900 Bluetooth mouse.  It worked out of the box in Linux 2.6, which depressed me.  I was hoping for a bigger challenge.  However, I'll be installing the BlueZ tools, so hopefully I can get the hub to talk to other devices, too.

Well, not exactly.  But it's been a tough week at work.  I've been commuting into New York City this past week to do an implementation for one of IGX Global's clients.  It seems to be going smoothly now, though.

I took the time to do some wardriving while in the city, but apparently my GPS didn't have a clear view of the sky, so the map turned out somewhat unimpressive.  However, most of the city was blanketed by the "Verizon Wi-Fi" SSID, so the maps would have probably been boring, anyway.  I wish their service was free, like it should be ...

It's that time of year again, back to school.  And I suppose I've finally accepted that I'm done with it, for awhile.  Seems weird, but I'll get used to it.

I did, however, take a trip back up to RPI last weekend for the RPI-ACM InstallFest.  It was pretty neat catching up with some friends from school, it's too bad I missed the LAN party this weekend.  I think I'm doing enough driving these days, though.  Oh, yeah, starfire got a hard drive update, while I was up in Troy.

I might be going sailing with my parents this weekend.  Maybe I'll be a total nerd and bring some wardriving gear on the boat.  Of course I'll post the maps.

I've been sticking with the current Bush/Kerry/Nader poll, since it's quite relevant.  Too bad it's horribly inaccurate, maybe I'll do something with cookies, in the future, instead of having it IP-based.

Anyway, enjoy the three day weekend!

I haven't posted any news here in awhile, sorry about that.  I've been somewhat busy lately.

A new version of picscript is available, now with multi-page galleries and various fixes.  Download now!

So, I picked up a new video card recently.  Although I bought it to play Doom 3, I've been enjoying UT2004 a bit.  It's nice to actually have smooth gameplay, rather than annoying choppiness ...

There seems to be a nasty storm outside, I think I'll cut this short for now, just in case nature decides to interrupt my connectivity.

I recently broke down and picked up a Garmin eTrex Legend GPS.  I've recently been creating some maps with my laptop, Kismet, and the GPS.  Kismet's gpsmap is pretty impressive.  Maybe I'll post some labels for those maps, too.  Most of them are from my route from North Brunswick to Hackensack.