We barely made it out for some decent weather this year to the Skagit Valley Tulip Festival. I don’t remember the last time I went but I know by old photos that I used to come out with my family quite a bit when younger. It was frustrating to learn that they had already cut most of the fields even though the festival was still open for one more weekend but we went up to see anyways. Tulip Town is where we ended up and it wasn’t too bad. The weather was nice for photos as well. It’s been a while but some of my techniques came back to me. These photos are a mix of mine, Juliah’s and my mom’s. Enjoy!
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Got this through email and thought it was kinda cool. I’ve heard the song countless times but didn’t realize how many references were in there to events in history. Someone put together photos and the lyrics to show a little about what each one is about.
http://yeli.us/Flash/Fire.html
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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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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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.
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