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CTO of Chicago Venture Partners LP & portfolio companies.

Chicago, IL USA
Joined September 2008
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Cogent Network Status: Normal [...]At this time some customers located in Chicago Illinois may be experiencing a loss of network connectivity. So the network's down, but that's apparently normal. Sounds about right.
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Apparently people get cranky in the face of punishing, burdensome, arcane, hair-trigger licensing management mechanisms: "Sorry, the username: SolidWorksSucks has been taken"
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Tech support guy: "Subnet Mask" is not a technical term for the number 255.255.255.0.
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Much of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is just Intelligence Aggregation (IA) The rounding up and rehashing of intelligence scattered all across the Internet. Most is 'dumb' statistical modeling, just at an epic scale. Thus, nominating term "IA" for 2023 #ArtificialIntelligence
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Sysadmins about to be fired by Twitter: Send me your resume. Experience the lighter side of The Force. #TwitterLayoffs surely suck, but inventing different open source solutions for a bunch of VC portfolio companies does not.
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When DES became insecure, the industry created 3-DES ROT26 cipher also insecure, best to use 3-ROT26 :-) #CyberSecurity #NetworkSecurity #cryptography
...Setting firewall rules on a strict "need-to-flow" basis
Comcast needs to get a dog. Then, hopefully they can dogfood their bad UX
Give me a USB Key long enough, and something to trip on, and I can break your server! --AArch64imedes
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TFW you re-open a browser with only 1 tab less than infinity.
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LOWES has you covered for ALL your DIY needs: Plumbing, Gardening and Low-Latency High-Frequency Trading! Whether you're a Market Maker, or a DIY Index Arbitrageur, check out the Fin-Tech section of aisle 12, next to the rat traps, and welding supplies! lowes.com/pd/Unbranded-Solar…
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Wondering if @ZWave (mesh) products based on the brand-new Silicon Labs 800 series chipset will still carry the moinker: "Z-Wave Plus v2"? Will there instead be different branding, perhaps encompassing Z-Wave-LR ?
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Tired of #Google building a profile on you, so the lowest bidder can effectively manipulate your behavior and beliefs? 🦆uck 'em! #DuckDuckGo
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#ZFS is now the *default* filesystem on pfSense 2.6! I like this new ZFS world we live in.
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Juniper Networks marketing failed to consider the German Language when they named MIST Cloud! #💩 Ist das nicht ein Haufen Mist? Ja das ist ein Haufen Mist!
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5G radio uplink reported as NR (SA). NR = New Radio. Bad name. Didn't we learn from: Windows NT (New Technology) [Old Technology] and Fast Ethernet [Slow Ethernet].
For any pfSense + OpenVPN users who notice (serious) performance issues after upgrading (somewhere between 2.4.5p1 and 2.5.2), we have found a workaround. reddit.com/r/PFSENSE/comment…
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OPT21: Yep, we're using the hell out of pfSense.
Installed Open Webstart. Uninstalled Java using my middle finger. Java Web Start is dead. Long live OpenWebStart!