Nix Bits

Somehow, two and a half years have passed since I accepted my current position and I hadn’t kept my resume up to date. I fixed that today. I had actually kept a company-internal resume somewhat up to date but my public resume has just sat here missing all the stuff I’ve done. There was actually […]

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” — […]

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 […]

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.

I’ve always kept a copy of my resume posted online. It’s just easier to point requesters at a URL link. I can also cut and paste it quickly and the format I have it in prints well. I like this because I don’t have to maintain a separate copy in a word processor. A couple […]

Been plowin’ away at a whole bunc of projects of late, both home and work oriented. I upgraded a while back to OpenBSD 3.3 on my firewall and that gave me some nice advantages. The new pf code has plenty niceties in it. Probably the nicest of which is the TCP ACK prioritization capabilty as […]

I’ve been wrestling with a problem at work along with our vendor. We have a product on Win2K Advanced Server that kept blowing up during the install very earlier in the process. Some DLL call in Installshield was mailformatted in some fashion but we couldn’t find why or what. We kept re-installing and removing hardware […]