I work at a place that blocks most outgoing ports, including Google Chat (port 5222). While I don’t use chat much at work it is nice for me and my wife to communicate short messages quickly. Of course I’ve never let a little thing like a firewall stop me, so I figured a way [...]
Entries from November 2007
SSH Double Hop and Google Chat
November 29, 2007 by Isaac
OpenID
November 26, 2007 by Isaac
This site now allows OpenID logins. I think OpenID is a great idea. All your information and credentials are maintained in one location, which you can give a secure password. On any site that support OpenID you can then log in. The cool thing is that your password is kept safe. [...]
Enabling Sound on my NIS Controlled Ubuntu Machine
November 25, 2007 by Isaac
My desktop computer at work is basically held hostage by the powers-that-be. It is part of a NIS managed network, where all the user accounts and login info is on the network. I am running Ubuntu Linux 7.10 which defaults to having the audio device belong to the audio group. That’s fine [...]
Modularized Test Automation Framework
November 16, 2007 by Isaac
In this months (November) issue of Software Test & Performance magazine there is a good article about a test automation framework. You can download the PDF of the magazine from their web site.
In a nutshell, they create several modules that each accomplish one task. At the end of the task they return the [...]
Stop The Madness!
November 15, 2007 by Isaac
Considering how “green” this planet is becoming it is amazing to me at how much junk mail I receive. I started wondering how many tons of that stuff end up in landfills. I found an article in SmartMoney that puts it in startling perspective:
The average American receives 11 pieces of unsolicited junk mail [...]
The Worlds Most Expensive Meeting?
November 13, 2007 by Isaac
As I was sitting in a meeting today, looking at all the senior staff and managers in there, I was wondering what was the worlds most expensive meeting ever? I have no clue of course, probably Bill Gates at a board meeting or Donald Trump or something like that. I wonder how much money could [...]
The Configuration Continues
November 11, 2007 by Isaac
So, I’ve been working on this blog for several days now. I must say that I am enjoying WordPress as my new blogging platform. Much to my surprise I have already had some pingbacks from other sites. So, just what is a pingback? That’s what I wanted to know. I [...]
Posting Mayhem
November 11, 2007 by Isaac
About a year and a half ago I started a software testing blog. Initially, I published a bunch of articles on that blog, but that quickly faded. There are still some useful entries there, so I imported them all into WordPress. Thankfully, WordPress makes that easy. Over the next several days [...]
Here we go again…
November 9, 2007 by Isaac
Over the last several days I have installed and tested several CMS or blogging software packages. I think I have finally found one that is going to stick. The thing that impressed me about wordpress is that it is easy to use, well supported, and has a ton of skins and plugins. Let’s hope this [...]
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