Pat McCurren

I also adore Tintin and a Time Lord taking Tea in Tibet

so, I’ve spent the past 24 hours rebuiding/reinstating/fortifying and otherwise stressing out about a work web server and apache installation that was brute forced into a denial of service Sunday afternoon. I pretty much worked nonstop, sans a bit of sleep late last night. But let me learn you the one thing I was just [...]

Hello business applications developers, here’s a free tip. I don’t want to have to install windows xp on my brand new gorgeous 24″ imacs at work, just to run bloated point of sale nonsenseware. As I pine for the kids over at xsilva to release version 3.0 of their Lightspeed client so I can see [...]

Why is my new 2701HG-B’s firewall and port forwarding such a disaster?
I’m running one instance of Apple’s Leopard Server to host both this site and several for work, very simple set up. Server, Airport Extreme port forwarded to the server, speedstream 5150 dsl modem.  I wanted the 2wire primarily to host multiple public ip [...]

I finally broke down and signed up for twitter. My initial trepidation about not having anything interesting to talk about is totally washed away by my ability to follow news stories as they’re happening, and this was most prevalent in my ability to follow the boxee/dev event in real time, via twitter. Not that [...]