Sun, 04 Dec 2005

Three Months Later....

It's now three months after the storm and it's hard to believe that this much time has passed already. First things first:

Things are not okay in New Orleans.


As a recent Time Magazine cover put it, "New Orleans Today: It's Worse Than You Think". The best one could say is that this will be a very slow rebuilding process. I feel I have to say this front and center because when we talk to friends and family outside of New Orleans, we're finding that people think things are getting back to normal here.

We wish.

The TV news media have moved on, occasionally broadcasting scenes of Bourbon Street reverie as signs that things are just peachy. Bourbon Street is a minuscule slice of New Orleans as a whole. Don't get me wrong, I'm pleased the Quarter is relatively healthy. But the reality is that 75% of the entire city flooded. It's hard to make the magnitude of that real to people. Pictures do not do it justice. You could try the numbers. For example, out of a city of 450,000, only around 65,000 sleep here at night now. Over 200,000 homes in Orleans parish were flooded. But even the numbers don't really tell the story. You have to see it.

And it's hard to say which view is more dramatic. They daytime view of mile after mile of empty, gutted homes with their attendant debris piles out front and "dirty bathtub ring" water line. Or the view at night, with so much of the city in the dark.

Coming back home was a whirlwind. Everything was a crisis and it was impossible to choose between various priorities. We were dealing with insurance companies, FEMA, our jobs, finding a place to live, and trying to gut and clean the house. That last bit turned out to be rather therapeutic, at least for a while. After spending hours on hold on cell phones that barely work just so you could talk to people who couldn't help and couldn't answer your questions, it does feel good to smash sheetrock with a five pound sledgehammer. You don't even think about the fact that you own the moldy, damp sheetrock you're smashing to bits.

There was and is mold everywhere. This is the inevitable result of stinky, salty, poo-filled water sitting in your house for two to three weeks. And then two weeks more before you're allowed to get in and "remediate" the "water damage." At first you're careful, wearing your mask or respirator. But after a while, it's just plain irritating and there's spores in the open air anyway mixing with the sheetrock dust and dried up muck. We've experienced the "Katrina cough", undoubtedly exacerbated by a constant state of stress and general lack of sleep.

In post-Katrina New Orleans, the new greeting is, "how'd ya make out?" That question is almost always followed by a matter of fact description that goes something like this: "Oh, we had about 6 feet of water and the roof blew off part of the back of the house and the neighbor's car is on my fence. But we're doin allright." And it's true. Jennifer and I feel pretty lucky to only have 1-2 feet in the house. I have friends and family who had 1-2 feet of water in their attics. We were able to evacuate with our photos albums, pets, Jennifer's wedding dress, and a fair amount of clothes. Some of our furniture was salvageable. That's the new definition of lucky.

You don't have to drive very far to see the definition of unlucky: Lakeview, New Orleans East, much of Gentilly. There's almost no signs of life at all in the East. And then there's the holes in the roofs and attic vents. The hand scrawled pleas for water and for rescue. And there are the bright orange X's spray painted on homes. The first time you see "1 DB" with a line through it indicating that a dead body was found and later removed, you don't forget it.

So why are we still here?

We are surrounded by utter devastation, miles of trash, debris and emptiness. On nearly every statistical indicator, pre-storm Louisiana is ranked at or near the bottom. We had the worst public school system to be found in the US. Murder occurred every day. And clearly there was abject poverty everywhere (don't look in the mirror, you other American cities). By nearly every measure, quality of life here before Katrina should have been miserable.

It was anything but. We loved our home and we are far from unique. We don't know if we'll ultimately be able to stay, but we very much want to. New Orleans is sticky in more ways than one. People who were born here, stay here. And people who move here, fall in love and stay here too.

I desperately miss walking Callie around Bayou St John. Ours was a real neighborhood where we truly got to know our neighbors. Just the other day, one of my neighbors called just to see how we were doing. This from a man with some significant health problems who had to be evacuated from a hospital after the storm. Our groceries and restaurants were all within an easy walk. Our Mid City neighborhood is filled with the architectural delights that can only be found in such abundance in New Orleans. As this USA Today(!) article reveals, our neighborhood was incredibly diverse.

I won't pretend it was a Utopia. There was occasional petty crime and clearly there was some drug dealing going on. It was frustrating to clean the litter off of our little front lawn every day after work. But it was still home. Streetcars had returned to Canal after a 40 year hiatus adding a new vibrancy to the area surrounding Canal at Carrollton. The homeowners were gaining ground and pushing out New Orleans' ugly drug culture. It was a neighborhood on the mend and growing. Not like so many other places, of course, where they tear down homes and replace them with heavily fortified mansions. In New Orleans, we don't tear down our homes, we renovate them. It takes longer, but we like our original hardwood floors, 13ft ceilings, working transoms, and Victorian details.

The neighborhoods whose names you've heard on the news are all unique in their own ways. Many are filled with multiple generations of families. I was raised just across the parish line in Metairie, but moved back into the neighborhood of my parents' childhood. My grandmother's house, where my mom grew up, is just a few blocks away. We went there every week as kids and we used to enjoy the family Endymion parade party until she moved out in 1991. My great grandmother had a house around the corner on Scott Street. My grandfather tended bar overnight at the Beachcorner Lounge at the end of Canal Street next to the cemeteries. The majority of my extended family lives in the surrounding area. That's pretty typical.

This is the New Orleans you never saw unless you were the type of tourist to travel off the beaten path. We kept it to ourselves, letting the tourism industry hawk the obvious attractions. We don't talk in a Southern accent or a Cajun accent and we don't call it "the Big Easy". To most ears we sound similar to New Yorkers -- that probably has something to do with the diverse mix of old New Orleans Creole French and later immigrants in the late 19th and early 20th century. The Times Picayune columnist, Chris Rose, recently opined that once you lived in New Orleans for a certain period of time, you were ruined for anywhere else. As we consider the possibility of leaving -- and the intelligent, financially motivated parts of our brains tells us we might have to -- I can understand where Chris is coming from. There's just a thousand little things that would otherwise seem inconsequential that make this place truly special and distinct.

And of course there's the food. Yeah, lots of other cities have great restaurants, but New Orleans has New Orleans restaurants. The city is liberally sprinkled with unknown neighborhood restaurants that are decades old. Eating here is an event, not just a necessary bodily function. And of course there's the music. All you have to do is turn on WWOZ and hear the tons and tons of unique music we've given to the world. There are some classic songs that I hear that now almost stop me in my tracks and make me want to kick myself for even thinking of leaving this place.

Yet think about it we do, our rational brains at war with our hearts and souls. And truth be told, that was true before the storm as well. While in one sense, it's easy to live in New Orleans, it can be hard to make a living here. So here were are like tens of thousands of others floating in a secondary flood of indecision, futilely waiting for some external wisdom and guidance that deep down we know isn't coming. We're just going to have to take a stab in the dark and hope we're doing The Right Thing.


Recommended Reading:

The New Orleans Times Picayune at NOLA.com has been excellent and well worth reading. Their coverage of just what caused those levees to fail is something I'll write on a little bit later. For a more personal view, Chris Rose has captured what many of us are feeling.

Anne Rice's column, "What Does it Mean to Lose New Orleans" gets it right. Michael Lewis' Wading Toward Home is a must read as well.

Tom Piazza's book "Why New Orleans Matters" is forcefully argued, and is excerpted here in Gambit.

John Barry's Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How it Changed America is on my must read ASAP list. He was recently interviewed in Gambit as well.

John Biguenet's blog for the New York Times excerpted here in Gambit was interesting as well.

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Mon, 03 Oct 2005

More New Pics and Captions

I added captions and descriptions to all the pictures posted up yesterday so you know what you're looking at. We have started cleaning now and drove out to New Orleans East to see Jennifer's other office. As many pictures as we have taken and it still doesn't convey the breadth of destruction. The sights are simply overwhelming. We go back past places and see things we missed the first time. Things like cars upended in backyards or trees. People like us have made it in to start assessing and ripping. There are 8 and 10 foot stacks of debris in front of houses everywhere you turn. The creepiest sights are the holes in the roofs. Seeing this in person has a much greater impact than it did on TV.

Links. Besides the pictures from yesterday which are now labelled, here is a new set:
Cleaning Up - Starting to get stuff out and salvage what we can.
Jennifer's NOLA East Office - Jennifer's office and the surrounding area in New Orleans East. As bad as Mid-City is, Lakeview and New Orleans East are much worse.

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Sun, 02 Oct 2005

We're In

We came in Friday and got our first look at New Orleans an our home. We started taking pictures and a movie of the house as is for insurance purposes. Pictures cannot do this justice. Pictures can't convey the smell or the entire atmosphere of the city. The odd emptiness that is everywhere. We usually have pigeons in our neighborhood. They are gone now. We didn't even see roaches. Just the flies that are having one big party inside our unopened refrigerator.

After doing our assessment we did some driving around. No matter what you've seen on the news, nothing can really convey what the city looks and sounds like. The amount of devastation is numbing. It is everywhere. I've been too busy to really cry or grieve but I have simply filed it all away to deal with later.

We drove through Lakeview which took much of the worst of the water. Homes were inundated to heights of 12 feet in this area. People have nothing to salvage. We even went to the 17th street canal breach location -- our rough equivalent to ground zero. It's not the only breached canal but it's one of them and the one that most affected our neighborhood. The breach is over a city block long. It's hard to imagine what it will take for my home city to recover from all of this.

Direct links to photos:
Our House - inside and out.
Jennifer's Office - More Pictures of Jennifer's Office
Driving - Pics we took driving about
Madison - Happier days at our evacuation "home" in Madison, MS
As I write this, there are no captions or annotations. I'll add those later when I have some time.

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Wed, 28 Sep 2005

New Pics From Our House

Got some new pics from Greg of our house up. Surprisingly, the tree that leans over the rear of our house did not fall in. So that's a tiny bit of good news.

There's an extensive set of unlabelled pictures from Greg starting here as well. I may label some of them later. Mostly pics of damage inside Greg's house two blocks up S Pierce from ours. There are some street pics of Tulane Avenue and other areas.

We're planning to go in for a looksie tomorrow.

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Dead On Accurate Post

This post from another blog hits the nail on the head. Some of the political squabbling and national news media coverage has been infuriating. There's been little in the way of context or perspective in most of it. There's plenty of blame to go around for the failures post-Katrina but there's been no discussion of what went right. Make sure you read the comments too.

When I hear the talking heads lambaste local officials for not sounding the alarm early enough, I want to hit one of them. For the entire 48 hours before the storm, there was nothing else on the local TV and radio but Katrina. Even before they made evacuations "mandatory" things were discussed in dire terms. On Saturday, this storm was described as "a life changing event". Residents who chose not to evacuate at that point were already being advised to have a hatchet or axe handy to hack through their roofs. This wasn't just local news media saying these things, it was the local officials. From Saturday morning on we were urged in the strongest terms to get out of town.

Contraflow was enacted on Saturday at 3pm, an hour earlier than we were told it would be. It was made abundantly clear that the terms "voluntary" and "mandatory" evacuation were designations with particular legal ramifications. It didn't matter what the evacuation was called technically, it only mattered that we board up, pack up, and get away. The advice only got more dire on Sunday when the technicalities were sorted out and the Orleans parish evacuation was deemed "mandatory". It's not often you hear a state governor telling people who choose to ignore the evacuation order to write the social security numbers on their arms so they can be identified later.

I should also note that calling the Orleans Parish evacuation mandatory "late" on Sunday morning, roughly 21 hours before landfall, was in keeping with the staggered evacuation plan that had evolved out of the painful Georges and Ivan events. Low lying areas were evacuated first and Orleans and East Jefferson last. It would have been called for sooner in keeping with the state plan's timeline, but they couldn't make the evacuation order at 4 in the morning. My guess is they wanted people to actually hear it. I should also note that the storm both sped up and enlarged, cutting the planned evacuation time that much shorter.

As the Gulfsails blog points out, getting 80% of the Greater New Orleans area population out in roughly 48 hours is rather amazing (the 80% figure is a current common estimate). Especially when you consider the small number of routes out and the minimum distance we had to travel to get "safe". Watching the Houston/Galveston evacuation -- without any contraflow or staggering in place -- there's plenty to learn from Louisiana about what we did right as well as what we did wrong.

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Sun, 25 Sep 2005

Pictures From Jennifer's Mid-City Office.

Jennifer recently received some pictures from her Mid-City office location. I spotted this posting on nola.com's Mid-City forum. It clearly referenced Jennifer's office. The lawyer with the office next to hers had been there. Jennifer responded to the post and the lawyer sent her these pictures. I left out two more pictures since they were of the lawyer's office and didn't want to identify her unnecessarily. They showed pictures of brown and moldy files and water up to the top of her desk. Here's the direct link to three pictures from Jennifer's office at North Clark and Iberville.

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Why Some News Anchor's Work the "Graveyard Shift"

So Jennifer and I have been sick the last few days up here in Madison and not sleeping so great. We woke up Saturday not long after Rita made landfall and flipped on the TV. Of course they had the usual shots of reports standing out in the wind and rain trying to impress us with their macho heroics and scenes of signs and lightpoles bending and crashing.

Then anchors Tony Green and Catherine Calloway are interviewing Rep Gene Green of Texas and Tony decides to veer off the script a bit:

HARRIS: Representative Green, all right, let me go off the beaten path for a second. Evacuation drills, why not institute as a civil exercise -- you just mentioned that we learned something from all of these storms. Why not find out ahead of time if our evacuation plans will actually work? Why not institute an evacuation drill? We give everybody a half a day off or whatever is necessary and we try the plan out?

GREEN: If we have any more storms like we've had in Katrina in Louisiana and this one, you're right, we need to. You know, our EMS personnel and our emergency services folks war gamed this, but they don't typically get the people involved, our constituents. But, if we continue to have these storms, I don't know if we need to have a drill. We're going through the drill in real life, seems like, the last three weeks in Louisiana and Texas.

Jennifer and I never even heard Gene's answer we were giggling so hard. Tony made this goofy face at the end of the question as if in speaking it aloud, he suddenly realized how rediculous this was.

We laughed a good bit at the notion of everyone just leaving work one day and driving to Dallas for no reason other than seeing how it works.

Actually, as Rep Green pointed out, there's no need for drills. While LA didn't do such a good job of getting folks out who didn't own cars, the "contraflow" evacuation for those that did have means of transport worked better than it had in the past. We generally didn't have those scenes of misery on the highway. We had already done it during Georges in '98, and Ivan last year and worked out some of the kinks. I'm not saying that nine hours to Jackson was pretty, but it was within the realm of reasonable expectations.

The inane questions some of these goons ask kills me. I'm getting tired of hearing these guys try to foment controversy by asking if Nagin's plan to repopulate the city is at odds with the National Guard and FEMA. Earth to moron journalists: Our homes were flooded. It's been a month since most of us have seen them. We'd like to get in, assess the damage, deal with our insurers, and salvage what little we can. We're not talking about moving back in tomorrow.

linkage:
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0509/24/bn.05.html Full CNN transcript for the above.
How New Orleans' Evacuation Plan Fell Apart Excellent analysis of the evacuation we heard on NPR the other day.

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Fri, 23 Sep 2005

Some Good Pictures

This set of pictures came from early in the crisis. The photographer was working with Search and Rescue and is a native of New Orleans. He talks about passing specific locations where he was born or where his parents went to school. I'm looking at the pictures and not being there but feeling the same things. Got the link form corknola.blogspot.com.

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Tue, 20 Sep 2005

Louisiana Most Deeply Rooted State in the US.

From the LA Times:
" Louisiana has the most stable and firmly rooted population in the nation; more than 77% of New Orleans residents were born in the state"

For some reason, I found that interesting.

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Fri, 16 Sep 2005

First House Pics

our house

First picture of our house. 9/15/2004. Water line about a foot

More at http://www.scottharney.com/album/Katrina/. Not much else to say....

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Two Sides of the Coin

I go through a range of emotions, but basically there are two sides to it. On the one side, I am hopeful and optimistic. Yes, our home was damaged, but it doesn't appear to be totalled. We have flood and homeowner's insurance. We evacuated with all of our photos, important papers, clothes including suits and Jennifer's wedding dress. We got all of our pets out with us. I still have a full time job and a full time paycheck. We are staying with friends who have been soooo kind to us and not in a shelter. My family and friends are well and many of them have undamaged homes waiting for them. We are so much more blessed than so many others out there and we know it.

Yeah, this is putting on a brave face but you've got to try and find the positive in all of this. By putting on that face, you help yourself stay up. My wife's a pychologist, so I know how this works.

flip. On the other side.....

Enormous frustration and despair. We LOST OUR HOUSE. It's only one story and three rooms. We took a foot of water but it might as well have been 10 feet because who knows when or if we'll be able to live in it again. The longer we're out, the worse the mold gets and we can't get in to clean it or even assess the damage. We can't get an insurance adjustor in and no matter how much coverage we have, they'll be out to minimize claims any way they can. Where the heck are we supposed to live? How are we going to pay rent and a mortgage on a house we can't live in?

We lost our other car. No, it wasn't a great car, but it's gone now. Jennifer lost both of her offices. Chances are she won't be able to cover the physical losses with insurance or FEMA and how on Earth is she going to rebuild that business?

Yeah, I've got a full time job. For now. For how long? Sure companies are going to put on a brave face and I know my employer is genuinely motivated to help us out and keep things running. But this is an enormous and expensive strain. Good intentions may not be enough to usurp financial realities.

Every time I speak to an insurance company, FEMA, or some service we owe monthly bills to like our cell phone company, I leave the conversation on the verge of rage. Everyone's out to protect their own assets. It's every company and every man for themselves.

Life is tough. Get over it. You're on your own. You've got it better than other folks so you can just tough it out and pull yourself up by your bootstraps. What's your problem anyway? You're upsetting me. Can we change the subject? I've got my own problems to deal with. Stop feeling sorry for yourself.

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Thu, 15 Sep 2005

Jon at Cork and Bottle's 9/14 comments

Jon at Cork and Bottle hits the nail on the head with his comments yesterday morning. Click here to read them. Definitely know how you feel Jon (I'd link straight to it, but there aren't anchors on the page to individual stories. As Jon notes at the top, MS Word is a lousy HTML editor).

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Wed, 14 Sep 2005

First Pictures from South Pierce Street

Our neighbor, Charlie, was able to get in because his company supports Cox Cable in the city. Charlie lives about 2 blocks down from us, so there's no pictures of our block or house here. No surprises in these pictures based on what we've read so far from corknola.com and elsewhere. Charlie's been a good neighbor, taking the time to shut off gas and power to all the houses in the neighborhood to prevent potential fires. His wife has sent out detailed emails to all the neighbors so we know what's going on.

Woke up last night at 3:30am as I have every night since the Saturday before the storm. This was one of the nights that I couldn't get back to sleep, though, probably because of the impact of these pictures. So many thoughts surging through my head -- all questions. When can we get in? How bad will it be? What do I need to buy now to start cleaning up? Will we really be in Metairie by next week? How long will we be out of a house? How much will we get for our insured losses? Should we stay in New Orleans? If not where can we live? Will we love another place as much as we love New Orleans? And how can New Orleans really recover? Can we really leave our friends, neighbors and my family in the city? When do I get Callie and Tobey from Kentucky? etc. etc. etc. etc. etc.....

Anyway, here's the direct link to the first pictures, so close to our house.

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Mon, 12 Sep 2005

Do You Know What it Means....

last
shot before leaving

Last pic before leaving, Sunday August 28, ~11:20am.

sat image
from noaa.gov

Sat image of flooding from NOAA.gov. Still have a roof by the look of things. From the floodmap at http://mapper.cctechnol.com/floodmap.php and information gleaned from http://www.corknola.com, we've got a few feet of water in the house. *sigh*

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Sun, 11 Sep 2005

Don't Know Where to Begin

So I guess I'll start at the beginning. Or at least where I perceive that to be. Friday was a normal day for us. Katrina was in the Southeastern Gulf and all indications were that she was heading to the already well-battered Florida panhandle. By late in the workday, some of my coworkers were fearing that the models were starting to show a NOLA landfall. But the models were changing widly at that point. The lack of consistency in the models at that point was worrying, but not too much. Not yet.

Jennifer and I grabbed our Cafe Degas coupon from the Gambit and headed out for a great dinner. Late that night, I got home and took a peek at the noaa.gov NHC page and the forecast track had moved. The storm was projected dead center over NOLA. I felt a ball in my gut. I didn't say a word to Jennifer hoping that it would be moved by the time the 5am or 11am Sat morning tracks came out.

It was not to be. At 7:45am my phone rang. It was work. We needed to batten down the hatches and transfer our operations to the disaster recovery site. The fact that we hadn't done so as soon as Katrina crossed Florida is in an indication of how low the expectation was that she was heading towards New Orleans.

Work was frantic and tense. We'd tested this numerous times and even done a few real runs, such as for Danny earlier in the year. But this felt much different. People were tense. Many folks I called to coordinate with were already on their way out of town.

I scrambled to get things set up. I managed to pack a box of tapes that were missed and have those sent out of town too. Probably should have loaded up the tape drives as well but you just don't think that fast.

I got home and consulted with my friend and neighbor Greg about our wood stash. We spent the rest of the day boarding up his house and part of mine. (I have some shutters) We commented on how alarmingly routine this was all becoming as he had boarded up several times now since moving in.

Greg would actually leave overnight. Jennifer and I wanted to hang in and see if the storm would do as all the others have and veer off to the east. We were tense. At this point I was more anxious to just go than Jennifer. We went out for Sushi and actually found Sake Cafe on Magazine was open and fairly busy. We argued over evacuation at dinner. We had a glass of wine at the Bridge Lounge on Magazine and headed for home. I wondered if those bartenders, waiters, and cooks had begun packing.

3:30 am and we were both wide awake. Jennifer went to the front room to read. I got up and tiptoed to the back bedroom to check all the weather details and forums at wwltv.com. There would be a morning news conference and it was speculated that Mayor Nagin would order the first ever mandatory evacuation of Orleans Parish. The storm had blossomed in the hot waters of the Gulf to what would be it's highest strength: A Cat5 with 175mph sustained winds and central pressure at 908mb. There was no more debate or even discussion, we knew we'd start final packing at first light. It was monsterously huge and unlike other powerful hurricanes, the eye was an expansive 30 miles across with hurricane force winds extending something like 125 miles out from the center. This was the storm they'd always warned us about. It was close enough that New Orleans would inevitably take a severe hit.

At 6am Jennifer and I hopped in the car and drove out to her office in New Orleans east hoping that we could get in and get her license and diplomas off the wall. The roads were empty at this point. Surprisingly, we got in to the building and got the critical stuff. All the while planning what we would pack from the house

The news was on. Even as we began loading up suitcases and making decisions, the time of our departure kept moving up. The storm was moving faster and enlarging. We would have left later to dodge traffic but that strategy didn't seem smart anymore. We got all our important papers, photo albums, work clothes, wedding dress, and suit. You make some pretty quick decisions about what stays and what goes. Of course we also had a German Shepherd (Callie), our pug(Bugsy), our friend Jimbo's pug (Etta, he had already been out of town) and my cat Tobey. All of this to pack in a 4 door Saturn.

Even as I was doing the last minute boarding up and yard clearing, the neighbors behind us were relaxing in the yard and seemed to be snickering at me a bit as they smoked a joint. By 11am we were loaded down. My parents were running too. Everyone in my family. I boarded up the front door and even as I did various characters were pedaling by on their bicycles, eyeing us up. I wouldn't be surprised if we weren't looted before we even left.

We started to get on the I-10 before Elysian Fields heading north to the contraflow on I-59 and then up through Hattiesburg to Jackson. But Nagin had delivered his mandatory order and roads that were clear just an hour before had filled up. I exited I-10 at Franklin and we took Hayne as far out east as I could before entering the fray. That little trick probably saved us an hour off of our evacuation.

I was worried about two things now. Gas and our tires. We were heavy loaded with us, 4 animals, and our luggage. I had filled up two nights before thinking this was a remote possibility and I wanted to have a tank of gas, but we'd done a bit of running about. I knew that sitting in traffic would eat our gas supply down.

The first battle was just getting to the contraflow start point at the I-10/I-12/I-59 split. That trip would've taken 30 minutes tops from New Orleans East but took us somewhere over two hours. Traffic was moving, just really really slow. Just getting over the twin spans and the already surging water was a relief. It was still early but clouds were rolling in. And on the radio we were hearing of the huge tangle now leaving town. How many would even make it out, we wondered.

We hit the split and suddenly we were moving. Our phone worked again and we called family to let them know we were on our way. They'd been trying to reach us but couldn't The relief didn't last, unfortunately, we got 12 miles into Mississippi and hit a huge snarl that held up all 4 lanes of contraflow. We figured that they must've ended contraflow somewhere up ahead. It was only 2:30pm and it wasn't supposed to end until 4 and it was supposed to go all the way to Meridian.

Sure enough at Poplarville the traffic all merged back to normal lanes. People were pulled over everywhere stopping to let kids and pets take a pee break. It was spongy and slow. I was watching the gas tank warily. Clouds were building up behind us. We were starting to hear frantic tales of people running out of gas on I-59. People still stuck hours behind in New Orleans, not even to New Orleans East yet. If we had waited, perhaps we would have been stuck in the dome too....

We were able to talk with John -- we were heading to his home in Madison, MS north of Jackson -- and get some possible alternate routes. I got off of I-59 at Hattiesburg and onto Highway 45. We stopped and got gas and took our first break. We tried to get a subway sandwich but they were out of bread. As we let the dogs take a breather, it started raining hard. We got in the car and started heading north on a surprisingly empty road. The clouds were moving and angry. It felt now like we were literally running away from the storm.

We took a couple of back highways into Jackson and all of it was smooth sailing. Our evacuation took us 8 exhausting hours. John and Stacey and the kids welcomed all of us into their home. We watched TV until after midnight as the rain started up.

Jennifer and I didn't sleep much. The weather started moving in. The storm would still be a Cat2 by the time it got to Jackson/Meridian with 100mph winds. None of us had ever heard of a storm retaining that much strength that far inland. The news had the usual footage of idiot reporters at towns on the outer edges of the storm standing in the street. The only thing from New Orleans we'd heard was about the dome springing a leak and several hotels losing Windows. The Mississippi coast at this point was an unknown.

The winds outside were powerful. I was wondering if we shouldn't close the storm shutters. The most jarring moments came when we first heard the tornado warning siren. John, Stacey and the kids huddled in one closet and us and the dogs in the other. I thought how awful it would be to evacuate all the way up here only to get waylaid by a tornado.

Surprisingly, we never lost power up here. We were one of the few neighborhoods in greater Jackson that did not. Thus we had the internet and news on the whole time. Late in the day reports began to trickle in. New Orleans seemed spared a direct hit. The silence from the MS Gulf Coast, though, was telling. We got raw flyover footage on the news channel up here. I was correcting WDSU reporters on the locations they were seeing, yelling at the TV. Things weren't looking all that bad. Late that night, though, we'd heard about the breach in the 17th street Canal. Whatever hopes we had for our home were fading because we knew what that meant (Even if public officials, apparently, did not).

Of course, we didn't sleep. Sleep has been a rare event since this all started over a week ago. By morning we were watching the news. The 17th street canal breach and the subsequent flood was the big talk. Seeing a CNN meteorologist refer to "Bucktown" as he pointed out the breach brought me to tears for the first time since the storm. I feared that everything I had ever known in the town that I was raised in would be lost. CNN reporters aren't supposed to know what "Bucktown" is, or "Mid City" (some didn't, the called it "Midtown"), or the Marigny, the Bywater, the Ninth Ward ("Ward Number Nine") etc.

Of course, everyone knows what happened next. Or, rather, didn't happen. Everything fell apart. Our personal drama continued and heightened when we discovered Jennifer's uncle Berkley had chosen to remain at his home in Riverbend. He had hoped that his engineering skills would be useful and needed after the storm. Instead he found himself in a dangerous sitatuation. The neighborhood was dry, but now there were gangs of looters. We received intermittent contact from him via 3rd hand information sources. He had a vehicle and wanted to make a break for it down River Road into Metairie but knew he would likely be dodging carjackers.

We posted to numerous online forums, explaining the desperate situation. TV was focusing on the dome and convention center, but dry ground anywhere in New Orleans was unsafe ground. We received numerous offers of help and kind words. Jennifer's Dad and uncle, Berkley's brothers, had other ideas. They started driving towards New Orleans. Berkley, in the meantime, planned an escape. I frantically sent out text messages to both parties, trying to give known routes out of New Orleans, and directions to where we were. Amazingly, they got those messages and eventually we found that they had indeed decided to converge on Madison. They arrived from opposite directions at almost at the same time.

Berkley had hauled another local family with him. When we got back to the house, it was clear he had been frightened by the chaotic scene. He had had more stare downs in the streets in two days than he had had in his entire 20+ years in New Orleans. When I told him he could unload now, he pulled out two separate pistols, and there was a shotgun behind the truck seat as well. We could all sleep for once. In fact, the following night Jennifer and I got our first full night's sleep

Suffice to say, we really haven't rested easy since. The deluge of images on the television and the hard reality that our home is full of water has set in. The anger at useless politicians and government stupidity has set in as well. We have OK days and days that are less than OK. We know how much more fortunate we are than so many others affected by this, but it's still harsh. We'll be fine, though. In the long run, we'll be fine.

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Mon, 06 Jun 2005

Looks like someone had the same idea for ssh blocking

Denyhosts parses your log files and adds ssh attack automated attack attempts to tcp_wrappers' /etc/hosts.deny. This is the same concept as this little shell script I cooked up. Of course my little script was derived from another script specific to openbsd and it's pf firewall.

Denyhosts is pretty much the same idea as mine but it uses python rather than a shell script. Python is common enough on most platforms but some non-linux platforms may not have it within installing 3rd party resources. The attacks on non-vulnerable machines with sshd running are harmless enough, but the extra layer can't hurt. And if a later vuln is discovered, you've already got a list of compromised hosts blocked out via tcp_wrappers.

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Tue, 03 May 2005

Linux kernel.org infrastructure

This interesting article talks about the kernel.org infrastructure used to maintain the Linux kernel. Overall it's a fascinating little bit of history. It's also intriguing because it gives an example of running an extremely bandwidth and processor intensive site. This quote is especially interesting regarding an earlier verision of kernel.org hosted on a dual PIII.

Serving data with http and ftp is is not very CPU intensive, but over time the amount of rsync traffic being fed by the kernel.org server continued to increase, and rsync is CPU intensive. "That's what rsync does" Peter said, "it trades bandwidth for CPU horsepower. We were getting to the point where we had all the bandwidth, but the Dual PIII 1.1's couldn't really keep up." He noted that the load average kept growing, well into triple digits. Referring to 32-bit systems, Peter noted, "we learned that the Linux load average rolls over at 1024. And we actually found this out empirically."

That's fairly amazing. Also noteworthy is the bare number of software optimizations they've thrown at the problem, which basically consisted of mounting their filesystems with the noatime attribute. Have to double check that one on some of my busier http boxes.

Slashdot has an article in their FAQ, detailing their hardware and software mix as well. It probably hasn't been updated in a while but the basic config described probably remains as detailed in the FAQ entry.

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Mon, 25 Apr 2005

My MP3 player is an antique!

According to this the MP3 hard drive player I use every day -- a PJB 100 -- is an antique. O.K. Maybe not an antique, but a collectors item.

The PJB was the first hard drive MP3 player. The one I have has a 20G hard drive. It's about 4 times larger than an ipod, roughly the size of a cassette walkman. The functionality and the interface is very nicely done. The sound quality is excellent. My rechargeable battery doesn't hold much of a charge these days, but I mostly use it in my car. The headphone jack is a little worn but I could just fix it with a quick solder. And it's USB1.1 which mean transfers to it are SLOW.

Still, I can't bring myself to replace a box that just works. By and large, I have the same functionality as an ipod and have had it since 2001. All the excitement about random play on a really large hard drive was rather amusing to me since I've been doing that for years. The PJB was a wonderful device to have when I was driving all over the state for work. I still carry my "antique" every day. And until it goes belly up, I see no reason to change. (or I can't get a working kernel module anymore )

Wikipedia has a detailed entry on the PJB-100. One of the coolest features mentioned is one I take for granted: gapless playback. That means that if there is no gap on an album's tracks, then there is no gap in the playback from the PJB as intended. There are still several ways of getting music on (and off) a pjb. My preferred method of upload is through an emacs mode of all things. The Table of Contents (TOC) is a text file after all, so it actually makes a lot of sense.

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Tue, 19 Apr 2005

Does Outsourcing Deliver the Goods?

Does Outsourcing Deliver the Goods? Outsourcing seems to be all the rage for businesses. This article is focused on the financial return of such efforts and concludes outsourcing is not the grand panacea it's often cracked up to be.

The conclusion: Either the costs of purchasing outside work are too high for the "losers" -- that is, they don't manage their purchases well -- or their businesses have inherent flaws. Flaws that cannot be cured by shifting work to others.
No surprise there.

My take -- as someone who works for an outsourcer -- is that organizations need to make a more careful assessment of their outsourcing needs. Merely throwing all IT work at a contract isn't going to produce magic savings. The amount of work, after all, doesn't change. The right answer is probably a mix of contracting and internal talent.

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Wed, 30 Mar 2005

NY State decides 100% of telecommuters income is state taxable

Yikes! New York has decided that a worker employed by a company in NY State can be taxed on 100% of their income in the state. What?! So my question is does the worker now get double-dipped having to pay income taxes in both his state of residence and NY? Be interested to see if the US Supreme Court takes an interest in this one. My suspicion is that it will definitely dampen employer enthusiasm for telecommuting.

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Wed, 16 Mar 2005

Knoppix 3.8 and UnionFS

The new Knoppix 3.8 has added an interesting feature by incorporating UnionFS into the filesystem. What does this mean? Well it means I can modify a file in /etc without a problem. The underlying unionfs structure writes the mod to /ramdisk and the change is transparent.

In fact, any change can be made. Software can be added. And further, those changes can be incorporated with Knoppix's existing persistent home dir feature. So every time you boot it, it picks up your mods. Knoppix already has so many uses and so much functionality. And it keeps getting better.

First read about it on oreillynet.

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Wed, 02 Feb 2005

Politicallly-oriented Software Development

This article over at kuro5hin is both satire and unfortunate truth. I've worked on enough projects that appear to follow this development model. I have been lucky, however, to work on a few that don't operate this way.

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Wed, 19 Jan 2005

Living in New Orleans

A fellow nolugger wrote this article about New Orleans. I think much of the same could be said about European countries. Certainly my recent honeymoon to Spain had me thinking in a similar mode. Priorities, perspective, and values....

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BigAdmin article on SAN booting and Jumpstart

This is one of those articles I'm just preserving for my own future reference.

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Tue, 18 Jan 2005

Debian From Scratch

I found this article on installing Debian From Scratch fairly intresting. Lately I've been installing mepis as a Debian install for others. But for myself, I need something a bit more hands-on. The Debian install I have at home is getting really stale now so I am actually considering a re-install.

Lots of folks think a re-install might not be necessary; just apt-get upgrade to happiness. But, honestly, I've got a mess of old packages, configs, etc form having a nearly 4 year old desktop, unstable installation. If this box were a server with a stable-testing, it would be a different story. There are times when a clean install makes sense. And it would give me a chance to get re-aquainted with the "Debian way" and new tools they have built -- just recently I discovered the rather handy modules-assistant for rebuilding nvidia-kernel and alsa-src on my 2.4-kernel unstable Debian box.

References

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Thu, 13 Jan 2005

Just some quick apple humor bits

I found this really funny for some reason. The answer is pretty fun as well.

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Wed, 12 Jan 2005

$HOME in revision control

Joey Hess wrote an article sometime back on how he maintains his entire home directory in cvs. He has updated it now to use subversion now. I've been using svn to maintain some projects myself and I liked Joey's original concept. The only issues for me is that I sometimes use different profiles for some job sites. And the Operating System differences in some of my more heavily edited bash_profile scripts are pretty convoluted. I also may not have svn clients on the machine's I use so rsync or just scp would be needed there.

In any case, it's a neat concept and something I may have to try soon.

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Sat, 08 Jan 2005

Today's del.icio.us links

More at http://del.icio.us/omegaman)

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Thu, 06 Jan 2005

The internet as platform?

Everything is Crazy has published an article that asserts that ever increasing bandwidth will eventually overcome Microsoft's Operating System monopoly. In other words, the application platform moves from the Operating System to the Internet itself.

There is some evidence to support the notion that Operating Systems will matter less and less. Google's Gmail is a tantalizing, but relatively simple glimpse. Mozilla and Firefox have oft been presented as application platforms in their own right. Certainly the browser is one of the most utilized components for any computer user. And while the old "the network is the computer" campaigns ultimately fizzled, as Everything is Crazy's author notes in a followup, the bandwidth simply wasn't there.

Here's where the argument falls apart a bit for me:

Most users have no desire to be the system administrators of their machines, and would gladly turn that task over to someone else for a nominal fee. As bandwidth increases, telcos, cable companies, and others will be in the perfect position to become application service providers for the average home user, and said average home user will gladly accept this, as long as the price isn't too high. I see this as almost inevitable.
It's true, average joe users are struggling with security pains and becoming less than happy system administrators. But I just don't see cable companies and telcos stepping up to this plate. The bottom line, as always, is the bottom line. The investment to become an application provider would be substantial. This is particularly evident when you factor in the support costs. Telco's and cable companies have not been particularly good at consumer tech support and satisfaction so far.

And I don't see there being a viable return on investment any time soon. Providers are still looking to maximize their initial investments building and launching broadband. They are spending most of their time and dollars getting 'triple-play' going to compete with one another while fending off interlopers such as Vonage and AT&T for voice. The only provider that might have some ability to test these waters as a variant of the Application Service Provider is Time-Warner with it's AOL division.

Otherwise, third parties probably have the best possibility of getting into this sort of game. Will we one day do all of our word processing and spreadsheet work in a browser rather than a traditional desktop app? Maybe. Or maybe in two or three years things will be far more different than we imagined presenting other possibilities for people to get (over)excited about.

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Keeping ports up to date on OpenBSD

OpenBSD doesn't have portupgrade like FreeBSD. Many OpenBSD users just take a snapshot of installed ports/packages by first running pkg_info and then deleting their package database as described in OpenBSD's upgrade documentation. OpenBSD does offer a script though, to check what ports are out of date: /usr/ports/infrastructure/build/out-of-date. The script seems to work well for my needs.

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Wed, 05 Jan 2005

Today's del.icio.us links

More at http://del.icio.us/omegaman)

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Xlivecd

cygwin, perl, ssh with X11 forwarding on a single cd. All of it runs from the cd too. Another CD for the toolkit. Get it here.

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Emacs keybindings for firefox

Sometime around the release of Firefox 1.0, the default use of Emacs-style keybindings in the URL bar was changed. Here's how to put it back right.

Also found a really handy feature for reading RSS/Atom feeds in Thunderbird. I like this much better than the Live bookmarks method employed by Firefox or the sidebar readers available as extensions. This is a really good way to get security announcements and weekly newsletters from the various distributions. Mouse gestures, Conquery, Adblock, and User-Agent Switcher extensions make the whole Mozilla Firefox/Thunderbird suite the winning combo for me.

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Mon, 03 Jan 2005

ssh blocker script for TCP Wrappers

Since this past summer, compromised machines have been attempting to brute force user accounts via ssh. Mostly this is annoying but it would be nice to detect and block these IPs. Francisco de Borja Lopez Rio made a Python script that watches /var/log/authlog on OpenBSD and adds IPs to a filter table for OpenBSD's pf. Script can be found here.

Later Juan J. Martinez used the same concept to create a simple shell script to behave similarly. While this is nice, some of my own bastion hosts running ssh are not OpenBSD machines and thus cannot run pf. So I modified Juan's script to use Weitse Venema's ubiquitous tcp wrappers instead. The bash shell script also expects GNU variants of cat, echo, awk, etc. but should be easily modifiable to operate on, say, Solaris. You can get it right here. It would also be relatively easy to edit to use Linux iptables instead.

Incidently, there may be some other, perhaps better approaches for dealing with this. One is to only allow key-based authentication instead of simple password authentication. Another might be to run ssh on a port other than 22. The first option is probably the most secure and some useful details can be found here. Running somewhere other than 22 may be out of the question and automated attack scripts may use port scanning to find running sshd's rather than assuming the well-known service port.

If you don't need to ssh from arbitrary hosts, then you should be blocking that at the firewall level, though you can add it to hosts.deny as well. Since this is IP based, attackers that can figure out your "whitelist" allowed machine IPs could utilize spoofing for a determined attack. The attacks we're blocking here are almost certainly automated and more of a nuisance. Restricting logins to key-based authentication only should be considered. This script or one of the firewall scripts noted above could then be added as well to block automated nuisance attempts. For a little extra obscurity, Port Knocking could be layered into the mix....

Download link: ssh_blocker_wrap-sh.tar.gz

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  • Hack Attack: Turn your <$60 /> router into a <$600 /> router - Lifehacker
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  • HOW TO: Get Through Having Your Identity Stolen - Consumerist
  • Linux.com | How to suspend and hibernate a laptop under Linux
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  • Mac On Stuff: How to run Windows XP under Ubuntu Dapper
  • System Administrators Toolkit: Monitoring a slow system
  • Hack Attack: Turn your <$60 /> router into a <$600 /> router - Lifehacker
  • NewsForge | How to use VMware Player to create your own images
  • HOW TO: Get Through Having Your Identity Stolen - Consumerist
  • Linux.com | How to suspend and hibernate a laptop under Linux
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  • Mac On Stuff: How to run Windows XP under Ubuntu Dapper
  • System Administrators Toolkit: Monitoring a slow system
  • Hack Attack: Turn your <$60 /> router into a <$600 /> router - Lifehacker
  • NewsForge | How to use VMware Player to create your own images
  • HOW TO: Get Through Having Your Identity Stolen - Consumerist
  • Linux.com | How to suspend and hibernate a laptop under Linux
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  • Mac On Stuff: How to run Windows XP under Ubuntu Dapper
  • System Administrators Toolkit: Monitoring a slow system
  • Hack Attack: Turn your <$60 /> router into a <$600 /> router - Lifehacker
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  • HOW TO: Get Through Having Your Identity Stolen - Consumerist
  • Linux.com | How to suspend and hibernate a laptop under Linux
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  • HOW TO: Get Through Having Your Identity Stolen - Consumerist
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  • Mac On Stuff: How to run Windows XP under Ubuntu Dapper
  • System Administrators Toolkit: Monitoring a slow system
  • Hack Attack: Turn your <$60 /> router into a <$600 /> router - Lifehacker
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  • HOW TO: Get Through Having Your Identity Stolen - Consumerist
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  • Mac On Stuff: How to run Windows XP under Ubuntu Dapper
  • System Administrators Toolkit: Monitoring a slow system
  • Hack Attack: Turn your <$60 /> router into a <$600 /> router - Lifehacker
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  • HOW TO: Get Through Having Your Identity Stolen - Consumerist
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  • Mac On Stuff: How to run Windows XP under Ubuntu Dapper
  • System Administrators Toolkit: Monitoring a slow system
  • Hack Attack: Turn your <$60 /> router into a <$600 /> router - Lifehacker
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  • HOW TO: Get Through Having Your Identity Stolen - Consumerist
  • Linux.com | How to suspend and hibernate a laptop under Linux
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  • Mac On Stuff: How to run Windows XP under Ubuntu Dapper
  • System Administrators Toolkit: Monitoring a slow system
  • Hack Attack: Turn your <$60 /> router into a <$600 /> router - Lifehacker
  • NewsForge | How to use VMware Player to create your own images
  • HOW TO: Get Through Having Your Identity Stolen - Consumerist
  • Linux.com | How to suspend and hibernate a laptop under Linux
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  • Archives of NETWORKER@LISTSERV.TEMPLE.EDU
  • Mac On Stuff: How to run Windows XP under Ubuntu Dapper
  • System Administrators Toolkit: Monitoring a slow system
  • Hack Attack: Turn your <$60 /> router into a <$600 /> router - Lifehacker
  • NewsForge | How to use VMware Player to create your own images
  • HOW TO: Get Through Having Your Identity Stolen - Consumerist
  • Linux.com | How to suspend and hibernate a laptop under Linux
  • ONLamp.com -- Distributed Cfengine
  • ONLamp.com -- Introducing Cfengine
  • My_Little_SMF_FAQ
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  • Archives of NETWORKER@LISTSERV.TEMPLE.EDU
  • Mac On Stuff: How to run Windows XP under Ubuntu Dapper
  • System Administrators Toolkit: Monitoring a slow system
  • Hack Attack: Turn your <$60 /> router into a <$600 /> router - Lifehacker
  • NewsForge | How to use VMware Player to create your own images
  • HOW TO: Get Through Having Your Identity Stolen - Consumerist
  • Linux.com | How to suspend and hibernate a laptop under Linux
  • ONLamp.com -- Distributed Cfengine
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  • My_Little_SMF_FAQ
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  • Archives of NETWORKER@LISTSERV.TEMPLE.EDU
  • Mac On Stuff: How to run Windows XP under Ubuntu Dapper
  • System Administrators Toolkit: Monitoring a slow system
  • Hack Attack: Turn your <$60 /> router into a <$600 /> router - Lifehacker
  • NewsForge | How to use VMware Player to create your own images
  • HOW TO: Get Through Having Your Identity Stolen - Consumerist
  • Linux.com | How to suspend and hibernate a laptop under Linux
  • ONLamp.com -- Distributed Cfengine
  • ONLamp.com -- Introducing Cfengine
  • My_Little_SMF_FAQ
  • BigAdmin Feature Article: Best Practices for Using Service Management Facility (SMF)
  • Archives of NETWORKER@LISTSERV.TEMPLE.EDU
  • Mac On Stuff: How to run Windows XP under Ubuntu Dapper
  • System Administrators Toolkit: Monitoring a slow system
  • Hack Attack: Turn your <$60 /> router into a <$600 /> router - Lifehacker
  • NewsForge | How to use VMware Player to create your own images
  • HOW TO: Get Through Having Your Identity Stolen - Consumerist
  • Linux.com | How to suspend and hibernate a laptop under Linux
  • ONLamp.com -- Distributed Cfengine
  • ONLamp.com -- Introducing Cfengine
  • My_Little_SMF_FAQ
  • BigAdmin Feature Article: Best Practices for Using Service Management Facility (SMF)
  • Archives of NETWORKER@LISTSERV.TEMPLE.EDU
  • Mac On Stuff: How to run Windows XP under Ubuntu Dapper
  • System Administrators Toolkit: Monitoring a slow system
  • Hack Attack: Turn your <$60 /> router into a <$600 /> router - Lifehacker
  • NewsForge | How to use VMware Player to create your own images
  • HOW TO: Get Through Having Your Identity Stolen - Consumerist
  • Linux.com | How to suspend and hibernate a laptop under Linux
  • ONLamp.com -- Distributed Cfengine
  • ONLamp.com -- Introducing Cfengine
  • My_Little_SMF_FAQ
  • BigAdmin Feature Article: Best Practices for Using Service Management Facility (SMF)
  • Archives of NETWORKER@LISTSERV.TEMPLE.EDU
  • Mac On Stuff: How to run Windows XP under Ubuntu Dapper
  • System Administrators Toolkit: Monitoring a slow system
  • Hack Attack: Turn your <$60 /> router into a <$600 /> router - Lifehacker
  • NewsForge | How to use VMware Player to create your own images
  • HOW TO: Get Through Having Your Identity Stolen - Consumerist
  • Linux.com | How to suspend and hibernate a laptop under Linux
  • ONLamp.com -- Distributed Cfengine
  • ONLamp.com -- Introducing Cfengine
  • My_Little_SMF_FAQ
  • BigAdmin Feature Article: Best Practices for Using Service Management Facility (SMF)
  • Archives of NETWORKER@LISTSERV.TEMPLE.EDU
  • Mac On Stuff: How to run Windows XP under Ubuntu Dapper
  • System Administrators Toolkit: Monitoring a slow system
  • Hack Attack: Turn your <$60 /> router into a <$600 /> router - Lifehacker
  • NewsForge | How to use VMware Player to create your own images
  • HOW TO: Get Through Having Your Identity Stolen - Consumerist
  • Linux.com | How to suspend and hibernate a laptop under Linux
  • ONLamp.com -- Distributed Cfengine
  • ONLamp.com -- Introducing Cfengine
  • My_Little_SMF_FAQ
  • BigAdmin Feature Article: Best Practices for Using Service Management Facility (SMF)
  • Archives of NETWORKER@LISTSERV.TEMPLE.EDU
  • Mac On Stuff: How to run Windows XP under Ubuntu Dapper
  • System Administrators Toolkit: Monitoring a slow system
  • Hack Attack: Turn your <$60 /> router into a <$600 /> router - Lifehacker
  • NewsForge | How to use VMware Player to create your own images
  • HOW TO: Get Through Having Your Identity Stolen - Consumerist
  • Linux.com | How to suspend and hibernate a laptop under Linux
  • ONLamp.com -- Distributed Cfengine
  • ONLamp.com -- Introducing Cfengine
  • My_Little_SMF_FAQ
  • BigAdmin Feature Article: Best Practices for Using Service Management Facility (SMF)
  • Archives of NETWORKER@LISTSERV.TEMPLE.EDU
  • Mac On Stuff: How to run Windows XP under Ubuntu Dapper
  • System Administrators Toolkit: Monitoring a slow system
  • Hack Attack: Turn your <$60 /> router into a <$600 /> router - Lifehacker
  • NewsForge | How to use VMware Player to create your own images
  • HOW TO: Get Through Having Your Identity Stolen - Consumerist
  • Linux.com | How to suspend and hibernate a laptop under Linux
  • ONLamp.com -- Distributed Cfengine
  • ONLamp.com -- Introducing Cfengine
  • My_Little_SMF_FAQ
  • BigAdmin Feature Article: Best Practices for Using Service Management Facility (SMF)
  • Archives of NETWORKER@LISTSERV.TEMPLE.EDU
  • Mac On Stuff: How to run Windows XP under Ubuntu Dapper
  • System Administrators Toolkit: Monitoring a slow system
  • Hack Attack: Turn your <$60 /> router into a <$600 /> router - Lifehacker
  • NewsForge | How to use VMware Player to create your own images
  • HOW TO: Get Through Having Your Identity Stolen - Consumerist
  • Linux.com | How to suspend and hibernate a laptop under Linux
  • ONLamp.com -- Distributed Cfengine
  • ONLamp.com -- Introducing Cfengine
  • My_Little_SMF_FAQ
  • BigAdmin Feature Article: Best Practices for Using Service Management Facility (SMF)
  • Archives of NETWORKER@LISTSERV.TEMPLE.EDU
  • Mac On Stuff: How to run Windows XP under Ubuntu Dapper
  • System Administrators Toolkit: Monitoring a slow system
  • Hack Attack: Turn your <$60 /> router into a <$600 /> router - Lifehacker
  • NewsForge | How to use VMware Player to create your own images
  • HOW TO: Get Through Having Your Identity Stolen - Consumerist
  • Linux.com | How to suspend and hibernate a laptop under Linux
  • ONLamp.com -- Distributed Cfengine
  • ONLamp.com -- Introducing Cfengine
  • My_Little_SMF_FAQ
  • BigAdmin Feature Article: Best Practices for Using Service Management Facility (SMF)
  • Archives of NETWORKER@LISTSERV.TEMPLE.EDU
  • Mac On Stuff: How to run Windows XP under Ubuntu Dapper
  • System Administrators Toolkit: Monitoring a slow system
  • Hack Attack: Turn your <$60 /> router into a <$600 /> router - Lifehacker
  • NewsForge | How to use VMware Player to create your own images
  • HOW TO: Get Through Having Your Identity Stolen - Consumerist
  • Linux.com | How to suspend and hibernate a laptop under Linux
  • ONLamp.com -- Distributed Cfengine
  • ONLamp.com -- Introducing Cfengine
  • My_Little_SMF_FAQ
  • BigAdmin Feature Article: Best Practices for Using Service Management Facility (SMF)
  • Archives of NETWORKER@LISTSERV.TEMPLE.EDU
  • Mac On Stuff: How to run Windows XP under Ubuntu Dapper
  • System Administrators Toolkit: Monitoring a slow system
  • Hack Attack: Turn your <$60 /> router into a <$600 /> router - Lifehacker
  • NewsForge | How to use VMware Player to create your own images
  • HOW TO: Get Through Having Your Identity Stolen - Consumerist
  • Linux.com | How to suspend and hibernate a laptop under Linux
  • ONLamp.com -- Distributed Cfengine
  • ONLamp.com -- Introducing Cfengine
  • My_Little_SMF_FAQ
  • BigAdmin Feature Article: Best Practices for Using Service Management Facility (SMF)
  • Archives of NETWORKER@LISTSERV.TEMPLE.EDU
  • Mac On Stuff: How to run Windows XP under Ubuntu Dapper
  • System Administrators Toolkit: Monitoring a slow system
  • Hack Attack: Turn your <$60 /> router into a <$600 /> router - Lifehacker
  • NewsForge | How to use VMware Player to create your own images
  • HOW TO: Get Through Having Your Identity Stolen - Consumerist
  • Linux.com | How to suspend and hibernate a laptop under Linux
  • ONLamp.com -- Distributed Cfengine
  • ONLamp.com -- Introducing Cfengine
  • My_Little_SMF_FAQ
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  • Archives of NETWORKER@LISTSERV.TEMPLE.EDU
  • Mac On Stuff: How to run Windows XP under Ubuntu Dapper
  • System Administrators Toolkit: Monitoring a slow system
  • Hack Attack: Turn your <$60 /> router into a <$600 /> router - Lifehacker
  • NewsForge | How to use VMware Player to create your own images
  • HOW TO: Get Through Having Your Identity Stolen - Consumerist
  • Linux.com | How to suspend and hibernate a laptop under Linux
  • ONLamp.com -- Distributed Cfengine
  • ONLamp.com -- Introducing Cfengine
  • My_Little_SMF_FAQ
  • BigAdmin Feature Article: Best Practices for Using Service Management Facility (SMF)
  • Archives of NETWORKER@LISTSERV.TEMPLE.EDU
  • Mac On Stuff: How to run Windows XP under Ubuntu Dapper
  • System Administrators Toolkit: Monitoring a slow system
  • Hack Attack: Turn your <$60 /> router into a <$600 /> router - Lifehacker
  • NewsForge | How to use VMware Player to create your own images
  • HOW TO: Get Through Having Your Identity Stolen - Consumerist
  • Linux.com | How to suspend and hibernate a laptop under Linux
  • ONLamp.com -- Distributed Cfengine
  • ONLamp.com -- Introducing Cfengine
  • My_Little_SMF_FAQ
  • BigAdmin Feature Article: Best Practices for Using Service Management Facility (SMF)
  • Archives of NETWORKER@LISTSERV.TEMPLE.EDU
  • Mac On Stuff: How to run Windows XP under Ubuntu Dapper
  • System Administrators Toolkit: Monitoring a slow system
  • Hack Attack: Turn your <$60 /> router into a <$600 /> router - Lifehacker
  • NewsForge | How to use VMware Player to create your own images
  • HOW TO: Get Through Having Your Identity Stolen - Consumerist
  • Linux.com | How to suspend and hibernate a laptop under Linux
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  • ONLamp.com -- Introducing Cfengine
  • My_Little_SMF_FAQ
  • BigAdmin Feature Article: Best Practices for Using Service Management Facility (SMF)
  • Archives of NETWORKER@LISTSERV.TEMPLE.EDU
  • Mac On Stuff: How to run Windows XP under Ubuntu Dapper
  • System Administrators Toolkit: Monitoring a slow system
  • Hack Attack: Turn your <$60 /> router into a <$600 /> router - Lifehacker
  • NewsForge | How to use VMware Player to create your own images
  • HOW TO: Get Through Having Your Identity Stolen - Consumerist
  • Linux.com | How to suspend and hibernate a laptop under Linux
  • ONLamp.com -- Distributed Cfengine
  • ONLamp.com -- Introducing Cfengine
  • My_Little_SMF_FAQ
  • BigAdmin Feature Article: Best Practices for Using Service Management Facility (SMF)
  • Archives of NETWORKER@LISTSERV.TEMPLE.EDU
  • Mac On Stuff: How to run Windows XP under Ubuntu Dapper
  • System Administrators Toolkit: Monitoring a slow system
  • Hack Attack: Turn your <$60 /> router into a <$600 /> router - Lifehacker
  • NewsForge | How to use VMware Player to create your own images
  • HOW TO: Get Through Having Your Identity Stolen - Consumerist
  • Linux.com | How to suspend and hibernate a laptop under Linux
  • ONLamp.com -- Distributed Cfengine
  • ONLamp.com -- Introducing Cfengine
  • My_Little_SMF_FAQ
  • BigAdmin Feature Article: Best Practices for Using Service Management Facility (SMF)
  • Archives of NETWORKER@LISTSERV.TEMPLE.EDU
  • Mac On Stuff: How to run Windows XP under Ubuntu Dapper
  • System Administrators Toolkit: Monitoring a slow system
  • Hack Attack: Turn your <$60 /> router into a <$600 /> router - Lifehacker
  • NewsForge | How to use VMware Player to create your own images
  • HOW TO: Get Through Having Your Identity Stolen - Consumerist
  • Linux.com | How to suspend and hibernate a laptop under Linux
  • ONLamp.com -- Distributed Cfengine
  • ONLamp.com -- Introducing Cfengine
  • My_Little_SMF_FAQ
  • BigAdmin Feature Article: Best Practices for Using Service Management Facility (SMF)
  • Archives of NETWORKER@LISTSERV.TEMPLE.EDU
  • Mac On Stuff: How to run Windows XP under Ubuntu Dapper
  • System Administrators Toolkit: Monitoring a slow system
  • Hack Attack: Turn your <$60 /> router into a <$600 /> router - Lifehacker
  • NewsForge | How to use VMware Player to create your own images
  • HOW TO: Get Through Having Your Identity Stolen - Consumerist
  • Linux.com | How to suspend and hibernate a laptop under Linux
  • ONLamp.com -- Distributed Cfengine
  • ONLamp.com -- Introducing Cfengine
  • My_Little_SMF_FAQ
  • BigAdmin Feature Article: Best Practices for Using Service Management Facility (SMF)
  • Archives of NETWORKER@LISTSERV.TEMPLE.EDU
  • Mac On Stuff: How to run Windows XP under Ubuntu Dapper
  • System Administrators Toolkit: Monitoring a slow system
  • Hack Attack: Turn your <$60 /> router into a <$600 /> router - Lifehacker
  • NewsForge | How to use VMware Player to create your own images
  • HOW TO: Get Through Having Your Identity Stolen - Consumerist
  • Linux.com | How to suspend and hibernate a laptop under Linux
  • ONLamp.com -- Distributed Cfengine
  • ONLamp.com -- Introducing Cfengine
  • My_Little_SMF_FAQ
  • BigAdmin Feature Article: Best Practices for Using Service Management Facility (SMF)
  • Archives of NETWORKER@LISTSERV.TEMPLE.EDU
  • Mac On Stuff: How to run Windows XP under Ubuntu Dapper
  • System Administrators Toolkit: Monitoring a slow system
  • Hack Attack: Turn your <$60 /> router into a <$600 /> router - Lifehacker
  • NewsForge | How to use VMware Player to create your own images
  • HOW TO: Get Through Having Your Identity Stolen - Consumerist
  • Linux.com | How to suspend and hibernate a laptop under Linux
  • ONLamp.com -- Distributed Cfengine
  • ONLamp.com -- Introducing Cfengine
  • My_Little_SMF_FAQ
  • BigAdmin Feature Article: Best Practices for Using Service Management Facility (SMF)
  • Archives of NETWORKER@LISTSERV.TEMPLE.EDU
  • Mac On Stuff: How to run Windows XP under Ubuntu Dapper
  • System Administrators Toolkit: Monitoring a slow system
  • Hack Attack: Turn your <$60 /> router into a <$600 /> router - Lifehacker
  • NewsForge | How to use VMware Player to create your own images
  • HOW TO: Get Through Having Your Identity Stolen - Consumerist
  • Linux.com | How to suspend and hibernate a laptop under Linux
  • ONLamp.com -- Distributed Cfengine
  • ONLamp.com -- Introducing Cfengine
  • My_Little_SMF_FAQ
  • BigAdmin Feature Article: Best Practices for Using Service Management Facility (SMF)
  • Archives of NETWORKER@LISTSERV.TEMPLE.EDU
  • Mac On Stuff: How to run Windows XP under Ubuntu Dapper
  • System Administrators Toolkit: Monitoring a slow system
  • Hack Attack: Turn your <$60 /> router into a <$600 /> router - Lifehacker
  • NewsForge | How to use VMware Player to create your own images
  • HOW TO: Get Through Having Your Identity Stolen - Consumerist
  • Linux.com | How to suspend and hibernate a laptop under Linux
  • ONLamp.com -- Distributed Cfengine
  • ONLamp.com -- Introducing Cfengine
  • My_Little_SMF_FAQ
  • BigAdmin Feature Article: Best Practices for Using Service Management Facility (SMF)
  • Archives of NETWORKER@LISTSERV.TEMPLE.EDU
  • Mac On Stuff: How to run Windows XP under Ubuntu Dapper
  • System Administrators Toolkit: Monitoring a slow system
  • Hack Attack: Turn your <$60 /> router into a <$600 /> router - Lifehacker
  • NewsForge | How to use VMware Player to create your own images
  • HOW TO: Get Through Having Your Identity Stolen - Consumerist
  • Linux.com | How to suspend and hibernate a laptop under Linux
  • ONLamp.com -- Distributed Cfengine
  • ONLamp.com -- Introducing Cfengine
  • My_Little_SMF_FAQ
  • BigAdmin Feature Article: Best Practices for Using Service Management Facility (SMF)
  • Archives of NETWORKER@LISTSERV.TEMPLE.EDU
  • Mac On Stuff: How to run Windows XP under Ubuntu Dapper
  • System Administrators Toolkit: Monitoring a slow system
  • Hack Attack: Turn your <$60 /> router into a <$600 /> router - Lifehacker
  • NewsForge | How to use VMware Player to create your own images
  • HOW TO: Get Through Having Your Identity Stolen - Consumerist
  • Linux.com | How to suspend and hibernate a laptop under Linux
  • ONLamp.com -- Distributed Cfengine
  • ONLamp.com -- Introducing Cfengine
  • My_Little_SMF_FAQ
  • BigAdmin Feature Article: Best Practices for Using Service Management Facility (SMF)
  • Archives of NETWORKER@LISTSERV.TEMPLE.EDU
  • Mac On Stuff: How to run Windows XP under Ubuntu Dapper
  • System Administrators Toolkit: Monitoring a slow system
  • Hack Attack: Turn your <$60 /> router into a <$600 /> router - Lifehacker
  • NewsForge | How to use VMware Player to create your own images
  • HOW TO: Get Through Having Your Identity Stolen - Consumerist
  • Linux.com | How to suspend and hibernate a laptop under Linux
  • ONLamp.com -- Distributed Cfengine
  • ONLamp.com -- Introducing Cfengine
  • My_Little_SMF_FAQ
  • BigAdmin Feature Article: Best Practices for Using Service Management Facility (SMF)
  • Archives of NETWORKER@LISTSERV.TEMPLE.EDU
  • Mac On Stuff: How to run Windows XP under Ubuntu Dapper
  • System Administrators Toolkit: Monitoring a slow system
  • Hack Attack: Turn your <$60 /> router into a <$600 /> router - Lifehacker
  • NewsForge | How to use VMware Player to create your own images
  • HOW TO: Get Through Having Your Identity Stolen - Consumerist
  • Linux.com | How to suspend and hibernate a laptop under Linux
  • ONLamp.com -- Distributed Cfengine
  • ONLamp.com -- Introducing Cfengine
  • My_Little_SMF_FAQ
  • BigAdmin Feature Article: Best Practices for Using Service Management Facility (SMF)
  • Archives of NETWORKER@LISTSERV.TEMPLE.EDU
  • Mac On Stuff: How to run Windows XP under Ubuntu Dapper
  • System Administrators Toolkit: Monitoring a slow system
  • Hack Attack: Turn your <$60 /> router into a <$600 /> router - Lifehacker
  • NewsForge | How to use VMware Player to create your own images
  • HOW TO: Get Through Having Your Identity Stolen - Consumerist
  • Linux.com | How to suspend and hibernate a laptop under Linux
  • ONLamp.com -- Distributed Cfengine
  • ONLamp.com -- Introducing Cfengine
  • My_Little_SMF_FAQ
  • BigAdmin Feature Article: Best Practices for Using Service Management Facility (SMF)
  • Archives of NETWORKER@LISTSERV.TEMPLE.EDU
  • Mac On Stuff: How to run Windows XP under Ubuntu Dapper
  • System Administrators Toolkit: Monitoring a slow system
  • Hack Attack: Turn your <$60 /> router into a <$600 /> router - Lifehacker
  • NewsForge | How to use VMware Player to create your own images
  • HOW TO: Get Through Having Your Identity Stolen - Consumerist
  • Linux.com | How to suspend and hibernate a laptop under Linux
  • ONLamp.com -- Distributed Cfengine
  • ONLamp.com -- Introducing Cfengine
  • My_Little_SMF_FAQ
  • BigAdmin Feature Article: Best Practices for Using Service Management Facility (SMF)
  • Archives of NETWORKER@LISTSERV.TEMPLE.EDU
  • Mac On Stuff: How to run Windows XP under Ubuntu Dapper
  • System Administrators Toolkit: Monitoring a slow system
  • Hack Attack: Turn your <$60 /> router into a <$600 /> router - Lifehacker
  • NewsForge | How to use VMware Player to create your own images
  • HOW TO: Get Through Having Your Identity Stolen - Consumerist
  • Linux.com | How to suspend and hibernate a laptop under Linux
  • ONLamp.com -- Distributed Cfengine
  • ONLamp.com -- Introducing Cfengine
  • My_Little_SMF_FAQ
  • BigAdmin Feature Article: Best Practices for Using Service Management Facility (SMF)
  • Archives of NETWORKER@LISTSERV.TEMPLE.EDU
  • Mac On Stuff: How to run Windows XP under Ubuntu Dapper
  • System Administrators Toolkit: Monitoring a slow system
  • Hack Attack: Turn your <$60 /> router into a <$600 /> router - Lifehacker
  • NewsForge | How to use VMware Player to create your own images
  • HOW TO: Get Through Having Your Identity Stolen - Consumerist
  • Linux.com | How to suspend and hibernate a laptop under Linux
  • ONLamp.com -- Distributed Cfengine
  • ONLamp.com -- Introducing Cfengine
  • My_Little_SMF_FAQ
  • BigAdmin Feature Article: Best Practices for Using Service Management Facility (SMF)
  • Archives of NETWORKER@LISTSERV.TEMPLE.EDU
  • Mac On Stuff: How to run Windows XP under Ubuntu Dapper
  • System Administrators Toolkit: Monitoring a slow system
  • Hack Attack: Turn your <$60 /> router into a <$600 /> router - Lifehacker
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  • Hack Attack: Turn your <$60 /> router into a <$600 /> router - Lifehacker
  • NewsForge | How to use VMware Player to create your own images
  • HOW TO: Get Through Having Your Identity Stolen - Consumerist
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  • ONLamp.com -- Introducing Cfengine
  • My_Little_SMF_FAQ
  • BigAdmin Feature Article: Best Practices for Using Service Management Facility (SMF)
  • Archives of NETWORKER@LISTSERV.TEMPLE.EDU
  • Mac On Stuff: How to run Windows XP under Ubuntu Dapper
  • System Administrators Toolkit: Monitoring a slow system
  • Hack Attack: Turn your <$60 /> router into a <$600 /> router - Lifehacker
  • NewsForge | How to use VMware Player to create your own images
  • HOW TO: Get Through Having Your Identity Stolen - Consumerist
  • Linux.com | How to suspend and hibernate a laptop under Linux
  • ONLamp.com -- Distributed Cfengine
  • ONLamp.com -- Introducing Cfengine
  • My_Little_SMF_FAQ
  • BigAdmin Feature Article: Best Practices for Using Service Management Facility (SMF)
  • Archives of NETWORKER@LISTSERV.TEMPLE.EDU
  • Mac On Stuff: How to run Windows XP under Ubuntu Dapper
  • System Administrators Toolkit: Monitoring a slow system
  • Hack Attack: Turn your <$60 /> router into a <$600 /> router - Lifehacker
  • NewsForge | How to use VMware Player to create your own images
  • HOW TO: Get Through Having Your Identity Stolen - Consumerist
  • Linux.com | How to suspend and hibernate a laptop under Linux
  • ONLamp.com -- Distributed Cfengine
  • ONLamp.com -- Introducing Cfengine
  • My_Little_SMF_FAQ
  • BigAdmin Feature Article: Best Practices for Using Service Management Facility (SMF)
  • Archives of NETWORKER@LISTSERV.TEMPLE.EDU
  • Mac On Stuff: How to run Windows XP under Ubuntu Dapper
  • System Administrators Toolkit: Monitoring a slow system
  • Hack Attack: Turn your <$60 /> router into a <$600 /> router - Lifehacker
  • NewsForge | How to use VMware Player to create your own images
  • HOW TO: Get Through Having Your Identity Stolen - Consumerist
  • Linux.com | How to suspend and hibernate a laptop under Linux
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  • ONLamp.com -- Introducing Cfengine
  • My_Little_SMF_FAQ
  • BigAdmin Feature Article: Best Practices for Using Service Management Facility (SMF)
  • Archives of NETWORKER@LISTSERV.TEMPLE.EDU
  • Mac On Stuff: How to run Windows XP under Ubuntu Dapper
  • System Administrators Toolkit: Monitoring a slow system
  • Hack Attack: Turn your <$60 /> router into a <$600 /> router - Lifehacker
  • NewsForge | How to use VMware Player to create your own images
  • HOW TO: Get Through Having Your Identity Stolen - Consumerist
  • Linux.com | How to suspend and hibernate a laptop under Linux
  • ONLamp.com -- Distributed Cfengine
  • ONLamp.com -- Introducing Cfengine
  • My_Little_SMF_FAQ
  • BigAdmin Feature Article: Best Practices for Using Service Management Facility (SMF)
  • Archives of NETWORKER@LISTSERV.TEMPLE.EDU
  • Mac On Stuff: How to run Windows XP under Ubuntu Dapper
  • System Administrators Toolkit: Monitoring a slow system
  • Hack Attack: Turn your <$60 /> router into a <$600 /> router - Lifehacker
  • NewsForge | How to use VMware Player to create your own images
  • HOW TO: Get Through Having Your Identity Stolen - Consumerist
  • Linux.com | How to suspend and hibernate a laptop under Linux
  • ONLamp.com -- Distributed Cfengine
  • ONLamp.com -- Introducing Cfengine
  • My_Little_SMF_FAQ
  • BigAdmin Feature Article: Best Practices for Using Service Management Facility (SMF)
  • Archives of NETWORKER@LISTSERV.TEMPLE.EDU
  • Mac On Stuff: How to run Windows XP under Ubuntu Dapper
  • System Administrators Toolkit: Monitoring a slow system
  • Hack Attack: Turn your <$60 /> router into a <$600 /> router - Lifehacker
  • NewsForge | How to use VMware Player to create your own images
  • HOW TO: Get Through Having Your Identity Stolen - Consumerist
  • Linux.com | How to suspend and hibernate a laptop under Linux
  • ONLamp.com -- Distributed Cfengine
  • ONLamp.com -- Introducing Cfengine
  • My_Little_SMF_FAQ
  • BigAdmin Feature Article: Best Practices for Using Service Management Facility (SMF)
  • Archives of NETWORKER@LISTSERV.TEMPLE.EDU
  • Mac On Stuff: How to run Windows XP under Ubuntu Dapper
  • System Administrators Toolkit: Monitoring a slow system
  • Hack Attack: Turn your <$60 /> router into a <$600 /> router - Lifehacker
  • NewsForge | How to use VMware Player to create your own images
  • HOW TO: Get Through Having Your Identity Stolen - Consumerist
  • Linux.com | How to suspend and hibernate a laptop under Linux
  • ONLamp.com -- Distributed Cfengine
  • ONLamp.com -- Introducing Cfengine
  • My_Little_SMF_FAQ
  • BigAdmin Feature Article: Best Practices for Using Service Management Facility (SMF)
  • Archives of NETWORKER@LISTSERV.TEMPLE.EDU
  • Mac On Stuff: How to run Windows XP under Ubuntu Dapper
  • System Administrators Toolkit: Monitoring a slow system
  • Hack Attack: Turn your <$60 /> router into a <$600 /> router - Lifehacker
  • NewsForge | How to use VMware Player to create your own images
  • HOW TO: Get Through Having Your Identity Stolen - Consumerist
  • Linux.com | How to suspend and hibernate a laptop under Linux
  • ONLamp.com -- Distributed Cfengine
  • ONLamp.com -- Introducing Cfengine
  • My_Little_SMF_FAQ
  • BigAdmin Feature Article: Best Practices for Using Service Management Facility (SMF)
  • Archives of NETWORKER@LISTSERV.TEMPLE.EDU
  • Mac On Stuff: How to run Windows XP under Ubuntu Dapper
  • System Administrators Toolkit: Monitoring a slow system
  • Hack Attack: Turn your <$60 /> router into a <$600 /> router - Lifehacker
  • NewsForge | How to use VMware Player to create your own images
  • HOW TO: Get Through Having Your Identity Stolen - Consumerist
  • Linux.com | How to suspend and hibernate a laptop under Linux
  • ONLamp.com -- Distributed Cfengine
  • ONLamp.com -- Introducing Cfengine
  • My_Little_SMF_FAQ
  • BigAdmin Feature Article: Best Practices for Using Service Management Facility (SMF)
  • Archives of NETWORKER@LISTSERV.TEMPLE.EDU
  • Mac On Stuff: How to run Windows XP under Ubuntu Dapper
  • System Administrators Toolkit: Monitoring a slow system
  • Hack Attack: Turn your <$60 /> router into a <$600 /> router - Lifehacker
  • NewsForge | How to use VMware Player to create your own images
  • HOW TO: Get Through Having Your Identity Stolen - Consumerist
  • Linux.com | How to suspend and hibernate a laptop under Linux
  • ONLamp.com -- Distributed Cfengine
  • ONLamp.com -- Introducing Cfengine
  • My_Little_SMF_FAQ
  • BigAdmin Feature Article: Best Practices for Using Service Management Facility (SMF)
  • Archives of NETWORKER@LISTSERV.TEMPLE.EDU
  • Mac On Stuff: How to run Windows XP under Ubuntu Dapper
  • System Administrators Toolkit: Monitoring a slow system
  • Hack Attack: Turn your <$60 /> router into a <$600 /> router - Lifehacker
  • NewsForge | How to use VMware Player to create your own images
  • HOW TO: Get Through Having Your Identity Stolen - Consumerist
  • Linux.com | How to suspend and hibernate a laptop under Linux
  • ONLamp.com -- Distributed Cfengine
  • ONLamp.com -- Introducing Cfengine
  • My_Little_SMF_FAQ
  • BigAdmin Feature Article: Best Practices for Using Service Management Facility (SMF)
  • Archives of NETWORKER@LISTSERV.TEMPLE.EDU
  • Mac On Stuff: How to run Windows XP under Ubuntu Dapper
  • System Administrators Toolkit: Monitoring a slow system
  • Hack Attack: Turn your <$60 /> router into a <$600 /> router - Lifehacker
  • NewsForge | How to use VMware Player to create your own images
  • HOW TO: Get Through Having Your Identity Stolen - Consumerist
  • Linux.com | How to suspend and hibernate a laptop under Linux
  • ONLamp.com -- Distributed Cfengine
  • ONLamp.com -- Introducing Cfengine
  • My_Little_SMF_FAQ
  • BigAdmin Feature Article: Best Practices for Using Service Management Facility (SMF)
  • Archives of NETWORKER@LISTSERV.TEMPLE.EDU
  • Mac On Stuff: How to run Windows XP under Ubuntu Dapper
  • System Administrators Toolkit: Monitoring a slow system
  • Hack Attack: Turn your <$60 /> router into a <$600 /> router - Lifehacker
  • NewsForge | How to use VMware Player to create your own images
  • HOW TO: Get Through Having Your Identity Stolen - Consumerist
  • Linux.com | How to suspend and hibernate a laptop under Linux
  • ONLamp.com -- Distributed Cfengine
  • ONLamp.com -- Introducing Cfengine
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