Archive for July, 2006

Monday, July 31st, 2006

Yosemite

I’ve stood in the presence of grandeur!
Yosemite Valley is part of a national park. It’s a national heritage, one of the places on earth to die for, or at least, to see before you die. It’s about 4 hours drive from San Francisco (I’m sure the duration can be shortened if you drive like an […]

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Monday, July 24th, 2006

San Francisco

Seventeen years. That is how long it took me from playing Manhunter 2, a Sierra On-Line computer game set in San Francisco, to actually being here, in San Francisco.
Just being here is worth all the trouble I had to go through with air travels. My flight into George Bush Airport in Houston from Little Rock […]

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Monday, July 10th, 2006

OpenVPN

All I need was UDP port 1194. All they had to do was to configure the firewall.
And it got complicated.
They claimed they couldn’t set it up in the remote office because OpenVPN would require administrative privileges in order to establish a connection. So I said, “Well, start it up on a gateway server and route […]

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