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	<title>AdmiNirvana &#187; The Interweb</title>
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	<description>Technical musings of an entrepreneur.</description>
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		<title>A Lobbyist By Any Other Name</title>
		<link>http://www.briandowney.net/blog/2012/01/19/a-lobbyist-by-any-other-name/</link>
		<comments>http://www.briandowney.net/blog/2012/01/19/a-lobbyist-by-any-other-name/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 02:50:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[campaign for creative america]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pipa]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[My eyes must be fooling me.  I just saw a pro-SOPA/PIPA advertisment on television published the the Campaign For Creative America.  Is someone playing a joke? Nope, apparently not.  The Campaign For Creative America is no other than our &#8220;friends&#8221; the big names in Hollywood and the Entertainment Industry trying to garner public support for the almost-dead House and Senate [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>My eyes must be fooling me.  I just saw a <em>pro-</em>SOPA/PIPA advertisment on television published the the <a href="https://www.google.com/#sclient=psy-ab&amp;hl=en&amp;site=&amp;source=hp&amp;q=campaign+for+creative+america&amp;pbx=1&amp;oq=campaign+for+creative+america&amp;aq=f&amp;aqi=q-w1&amp;aql=&amp;gs_sm=e&amp;gs_upl=616l7545l0l7643l35l22l2l4l4l2l693l5126l0.8.10.2.0.1l25l0&amp;bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&amp;fp=258585a880e42f6f&amp;biw=1138&amp;bih=789">Campaign For Creative America</a>.  Is someone playing a joke?</p>
<p><a href="http://creativeamerica.org/">Nope, apparently not</a>.  The Campaign For Creative America is no other than our &#8220;friends&#8221; the big names in Hollywood and the Entertainment Industry trying to garner public support for the almost-dead House and Senate bills.   These of course  were the pieces of legislation targeted by the January 18th blackout of Wikipedia, Google, Reddit and others.</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t be fooled friends.  These are companies dressing in sheep&#8217;s clothing trying to rekindle any support for their dead bills.   While I&#8217;m all for earning a profit in a free market, you&#8217;re not allowed to threaten free speech and suspend due-process with unconstitutional Federal laws in order to guarantee it.</p>
<p>Continue to write your senators and representatives to vehemently oppose these pieces of bad legislation.</p>
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		<title>Cell Phone Epicness</title>
		<link>http://www.briandowney.net/blog/2011/06/29/cell-phone-epicness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jun 2011 22:06:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Geeky]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[software]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[So Jeremy and I went down to San Francisco to see a rock show last night,  and I pleasantly discovered my phone had switched Verizon&#8217;s 4G LTE network, and this was the result:]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So Jeremy and I went down to San Francisco to see a rock show last night,  and I pleasantly discovered my phone had switched Verizon&#8217;s 4G LTE network, and this was the result:</p>
<div id="attachment_236" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://www.briandowney.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/63883610.png"><img class="size-full wp-image-236" title="4G in San Fran" src="http://www.briandowney.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/63883610.png" alt="4G in San Fran" width="300" height="135" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Whoa.</p></div>
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		<title>TLF: We&#8217;re not down</title>
		<link>http://www.briandowney.net/blog/2011/04/21/tlf-were-not-down/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2011 05:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[amazon]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, it&#8217;s going on 24 hours now.   Over the years we&#8217;ve lost a few customers to Amazon&#8217;s &#8220;cloud&#8221; services for cost savings and simplicity.  Though we were sorry to see them go, we also offered words of warning:   Complexity isn&#8217;t eliminated, only obscured. It&#8217;s especially a bummer when there isn&#8217;t anything you can do about [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well, it&#8217;s<a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20110421-717941.html"> going on 24 hours</a> now.   Over the years we&#8217;ve lost a few customers to Amazon&#8217;s &#8220;cloud&#8221; services for cost savings and simplicity.  Though we were sorry to see them go, we also offered words of warning:   Complexity isn&#8217;t eliminated, only obscured.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s especially a bummer when there isn&#8217;t anything you can do about the downtime than wait.</p>
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		<title>Network Programming with BASH</title>
		<link>http://www.briandowney.net/blog/2011/03/25/network-programming-with-bash/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2011 22:25:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cool]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Scripting]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Greg put up a pretty amazing post about reading and writing to TCP network sockets using nothing but the BASH shell and the Linux kernel pseduo-filesystem.   Go check it out here.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Greg put up a pretty amazing post about reading and writing to TCP network sockets using nothing but the BASH shell and the Linux kernel pseduo-filesystem.   <a title="Network Programming with BASH" href="http://www.techrockdo.com/technology/network-programming-with-bash"> Go check it out here</a>.</p>
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		<title>Rediggulo.us</title>
		<link>http://www.briandowney.net/blog/2008/07/02/rediggulous/</link>
		<comments>http://www.briandowney.net/blog/2008/07/02/rediggulous/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 16:44:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Interweb]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aggregators]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reddiggulous]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Darn.  One of my favorite news-social-networking-aggregator sites (that&#8217;s my meme for it) has closed its doors.  The landing page for http://rediggulo.us now reads: &#8220;It was fun while it lasted but we&#8217;re done. Unfortunately, the experiment that was reddiggulo.us has come to an end. Why end it?  We&#8217;re moving on to greener pastures. Anyways, thanks for [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Darn.  One of my favorite news-social-networking-aggregator sites (that&#8217;s my meme for it) has closed its doors.  The landing page for <a href="http://rediggulo.us">http://rediggulo.us</a> now reads:</p>
<h1><em>&#8220;It was fun while it lasted but we&#8217;re done.</em></h1>
<h3><em>Unfortunately, the experiment that was reddiggulo.us has come to an end.</em></h3>
<p><em>Why end it?  We&#8217;re moving on to greener pastures.</em></p>
<p><em>Anyways, thanks for coming and clicking an ad once in awhile.</em></p>
<p><em>Anyone interested in buying this domain, the code, database, etc, please contact &#8220;info&#8221; at this domain.&#8221;</em></p>
<p>Anyone game for snagging the domain and property?  I think I&#8217;ve got somewhere to host it!</p>
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		<title>More Faster Internets Tube</title>
		<link>http://www.briandowney.net/blog/2008/02/16/more-faster-internets-tube/</link>
		<comments>http://www.briandowney.net/blog/2008/02/16/more-faster-internets-tube/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 21:49:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I always wanted to try out Speedtest from the co-location. I finally remembered to do it!]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I always wanted to try out Speedtest from the co-location. I finally remembered to do it!</p>
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		<title>New hosting stuff</title>
		<link>http://www.briandowney.net/blog/2007/10/16/new-hosting-stuff/</link>
		<comments>http://www.briandowney.net/blog/2007/10/16/new-hosting-stuff/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2007 18:59:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Linux]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whew&#8230; after a few months of solid work on TLF stuff, we finally hit a big milestone&#8211;the opening of www.tlfhosting.com, which will eventually become the main jump for all things hosting related at the &#8216;Fix.Right now it&#8217;s pretty skeletal, but it&#8217;s a start. A big component of this is the shared server hosting stuff which [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>Whew</em>&#8230; after a few months of solid work on TLF stuff, we finally hit a big milestone&#8211;the opening of <a href="http://www.tlfhosting.com" title="TLFHosting.com">www.tlfhosting.com</a>, which will eventually become the main jump for all things hosting related at the &#8216;Fix.Right now it&#8217;s pretty skeletal, but it&#8217;s a start.</p>
<p>A big component of this is the shared server hosting stuff which is now all handled under <a href="http://www.psoft.net" title="Positive Software">H-Sphere&#8211;</a>an all encompassing control panel, distribution, and load-management system.  The super cool thing is that it reduces management in a huge way allowing TLF to sell really nice shared sever hosting for super-cheap, like <a href="https://cp.linuxfix.com:8443/psoft/servlet/psoft.hsphere.CP?action=plan_compare&amp;compare_way=group&amp;template_name=submit/misc/compare_plans.sbm&amp;gr_id=0" title="TLF Hosting Plans">$4.50/mo.</a>  Go sign up!</p>
<p>TLF also been enlisted as an official domain registrar, as well as a reseller for Comodo&#8211;meaning TLF is now a one-stop shop.  You just visit that control panel and you&#8217;re off and running.</p>
<p>The next phase is to get our VPS stuff finished up and migrate the rest of the internal TLF stuff to the new VMware server, freeing up the old one for customer VM&#8217;s.I can almost see the light at the end of the tunnel!</p>
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		<title>iPhone bug</title>
		<link>http://www.briandowney.net/blog/2007/07/17/iphone-bug/</link>
		<comments>http://www.briandowney.net/blog/2007/07/17/iphone-bug/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2007 15:32:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Computers]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Found the first reason to throw the iPhone at the wall. There is a bug in the email setup screen on the iPhone. If you have an outgoing SMTP server that requires authentication, the iPhone will not save your SMTP password no matter how many times you enter it in on the setup screen. It [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Found the first reason to throw the iPhone at the wall.</p>
<p>There is a bug in the email setup screen on the iPhone.  If you have an outgoing SMTP server that requires authentication, the iPhone will not save your SMTP password no matter how many times you enter it in on the setup screen.  It will always revert back to &#8220;Optional&#8221;.</p>
<p>Well, isn&#8217;t that a pisser!  Can receive, but not send.</p>
<p>So, after fiddling with it for about 30 minutes and <em>almost</em> tossing it at the nearest piece of sheet rock, I found if you delete all the other SMTP settings (server, username) enter the password <em>first</em> then backfill the user and server name, the password will stick and the SMTP gods will smile down on you.</p>
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		<title>Disks, lots of disks</title>
		<link>http://www.briandowney.net/blog/2007/07/16/disks-lots-of-disks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jul 2007 21:01:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My friends, meet the EonStor A24F-R2224. 12 terabytes of fiber-attached RAID6 happiness sitting on my carpeting. Your 2 gigs of email are no match for it. It fears not your puny 1 gig of website files. In fact, that blue light on the Dell is being illuminated simply by the eminating kick-ass-ness of the disk [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>My friends, meet the EonStor A24F-R2224.   12 terabytes of fiber-attached <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID#RAID_implementations" title="Wikipedia on RAID">RAID6</a> happiness sitting on my carpeting. Your 2 gigs of email are no match for it.  It fears not your puny 1 gig of website files.</p>
<p>In fact, that blue light on the Dell is being illuminated simply by the eminating kick-ass-ness of the disk array.  This geekout moment was brought to you compliments of <a href="http://www.thelinuxfix.com" title="The Linux Fix, LLC">The Linux Fix</a>.</p>
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		<title>Bill Gates is a moron</title>
		<link>http://www.briandowney.net/blog/2007/02/06/bill-gates-is-a-moron/</link>
		<comments>http://www.briandowney.net/blog/2007/02/06/bill-gates-is-a-moron/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Feb 2007 00:04:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rarely do I say anything in depth about Microsoft and its head cheerleader Mr. Bill Gates, but this time around I really got peeved about this story where he is talking about the latest Apple ad bashing Vista. Bill is quoted as saying: &#8220;And I don&#8217;t know why [Apple is] acting like it&#8217;s superior. I [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Rarely do I say anything in depth about Microsoft and its head cheerleader Mr. Bill Gates, but this time around I really got peeved about <a href="http://www.newsfactor.com/news/Gates-Attacks-Mac-Security--Apple-Ads/story.xhtml?story_id=012000P0K8A0" title="NewsFactor Bill Gates Interview">this story</a> where he is talking about the latest <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuqZ8AqmLPY" title="Youtube Mac/Vista ad">Apple ad bashing Vista</a>.</p>
<p>Bill is quoted as saying:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;And I don&#8217;t know why [Apple is] acting like it&#8217;s superior. I don&#8217;t even get it. What are they trying to say? Does honesty matter in these things, or if you&#8217;re really cool, that means you get to be a lying person whenever you feel like it? There&#8217;s not even the slightest shred of truth to [the ideas about Vista upgrades presented in the Apple commercial he said he had not seen].&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>My <em>lord</em> dude, are you living in another friggin&#8217; dimension?   The whole point those Apple ads are humorus is because they <em>are</em> true.   Funny is based on truth, dipstick! Where the heck has Bill Gates been keeping his brain the past five years?  Hasn&#8217;t he read the news and <a href="http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&amp;ned=us&amp;q=vista&amp;btnG=Search+News" title="Google News: Vista">feedback on Vista</a> and got the vibe that so far it pretty much sucks, along with the rest of the planet?</p>
<p>Apparently not.  I mean, how can it be when he makes statements like this?</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Nowadays, security guys break the Mac every single day. Every single day, they come out with a total exploit, your machine can be taken over totally. I dare anybody to do that once a month on the Windows machine.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Really Bill?  <em>Is that so?</em> News to me, and I even use one of those security-flawed Mac machines.  Actually, I&#8217;ve used one for about 4 years and I&#8217;ve not been &#8220;taken over totally&#8221;.</p>
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