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Assimilated by the iPhone Borg

Posted Wed, 2009-07-01 23:47 by geekwisdom

I took the plunge, got the iPhone 3G [S] as a gift for Father's Day.

A big thank you to Saferating, Inc. who picked up the tab on the monthly data plan. Without your contribution, this missionary was going w/pen & notebook for scheduling.

The award for best feedback from the challenge goes to K. Hokanson, "Productivity and distraction have nothing to do with the device." So true.

iPhone, productivity device or distraction? Convince me and win $15 iTunes music card.

Posted Sun, 2009-06-21 21:58 by geekwisdom

Here's the deal, I have an opportunity to get an iPhone 3G [S]. Someone has offered to pay for the phone but I will have to pay for the service plan. I will do it if I can be convinced that it will make me more productive, as opposed to more distracted.

Solution for umount "device is busy" errors

Posted Wed, 2009-06-10 11:04 by geekwisdom

We've all experienced it. We want to unmount something and the device is busy. Enter the lazy switch for the umount command.
umount -l /dev/
As soon as the last process stops using the device it gets unmounted. Many times this happens instantly.

Why I don't become a fan of pages for generic things and concepts on Facebook

Posted Sun, 2009-05-31 20:02 by geekwisdom

The "page" feature of Facebook is designed to provide a way for people to become fans of people, organizations, bands, etc. These fan pages are available to people who do not have Facebook accounts and administrators of fan pages have the ability to send updates to fans. Anyone with a Facebook account can create a fan page about anything, even things for which they are not the authority.

Personal Password Management

Posted Fri, 2009-05-15 14:02 by geekwisdom

In this video Software Architect, Steve Moitozo, addresses the issue of personal password management. For links to resources mentioned and a previous blog on this topic refer to Password Management. See the post Personal Password Management Survey to see the questions and the response numbers.

Firefox 3 sec_error_crl_invalid errors

Posted Mon, 2009-05-11 01:13 by geekwisdom

For the last month or so I've been experiencing sec_error_crl_invalid errors on a couple of sites when using Firefox 3. Thanks to this post on NZGeek's blog I was able to resolve the issue. It turns out by deleting the CRLs (that where disabled anyway) I was able to solve my issue.

Jesse's Favorite Interview Question

Posted Fri, 2009-05-08 13:38 by geekwisdom

Jesse Robbins elegantly described the kind of person that would be a good candidate for the Internet Services Engineering aspects of my job in his O'Reilly Radar post.

My favorite interview question to ask candidates is: "What happens when you type www.(amazon|google|yahoo).com in your browser and press return?"