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Oliver & Juliah Hansen -- Wedding Photos

We were married on the 23rd of January, 2010 in my hometown of Coupeville. I am not going to try to put captions on all the photos since I just want to get them up for people to look at right now. Please feel welcome to leave comments!
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Install pfSense on Symantec 5420 Security Gateway

I need to give credit to this post in the pfSense forums which showed that this was possible. This box is pretty nice in that the processor is a Celeron 2.0GHz and it has 6 onboard Intel 10/100 NICs which are preferred by far over the usual Realtek NICs found in embedded devices. It was just by chance that I saw the post the other day even though it had been posted a while back. My company had two of these donated a while back but we weren’t using them because we had no real need to muck with the licensing when the hardware was discontinued. Have a look at what you can find these Symantec 5420 Security Gateway for these days. The author of the post gave a few tips but no real instructions so after I got it working I thought I would put together a step-by-step guide.

First, what you will need:

  • A knowledge of how to install pfSense – This guide assumes you have installed pfSense before. If you have not, look at the detailed instructions on the pfSense wiki.
  • 1 Symantec 5420 Security Gateway – these can be found secondhand since they are discontinued
  • 1 IDE HDD (Hard Drive)
  • 1 computer that can boot from CD – you will not need this after the install is finished
  • 1 computer with a serial port and a serial cable – this can be the same computer that you boot with but must have an OS

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Have Copyright Holder’s Fears Proved Correct Over The Years?

The author of the article on arstechnica.com shows that a few of the industry leaders who felt threatened by technology have been correct on some points. I was surprized by this, but not surprized by the fact that most of the warnings of entire industries being destroyed have proved false. Unreasonable copyrights are holding back new ideas and new methods for sharing information. I hope some people in decision-making capacities will read this and not believe all the current hype by the RIAA and MPAA.

Canadian Hobbema Cadets Travel To Jamaica

Saw this on TV the other night and started watching because it was about Jamaica. It turned out to be really interesting. The kids from Hobbema don’t have an easy life but when they travel to Jamaica and spend some time in Spanish Town they see there are some with less than they have. There is a Jamaican cadet group as well and they get to work together and share a bit about their cultures. If you have a few minutes, give it a look.

Full page: http://www.cbc.ca/sunday/2009/05/051009_4.html

Video Only: http://www.cbc.ca/news/video/embed_static_live_hi.html?http://www.cbc.ca/mrl3/8752/sunday/051009_4.wmv