Rantings by Nick Buraglio

• Where did my weekend go?!? Once again I propose that the work week should be 2 days and the weekend 5 days. #
• I’m hoping that @ancker010 is making some @weeklyroast #coffee in the office this morning. #
• When “they” say that kids get every sickness that goes around, “they” weren’t kidding. #
• Cracked open what I think is the last of the 2008 Oktoberfest homebrew. Thus stuff was really good. #fb http://twitpic.com/16ukoj #
• http://twitpic.com/16v74b - Just made a quick status page for the OpenOSPFd package for #pfsense. Wicked. #
• @chuck_hayes Nice! We may have to head over to Jarlings tomorrow in reply to chuck_hayes #
• @decks24 just wait until you can’t sleep past 6:30am unless you’re hung over. in reply to decks24 #
• Finally got some more @weeklyroast #coffee ordered for home. #
• My knees and back feel rickety after that grappling session on the mat. #
• I believe that American pickers is my new favorite show. #

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• I’m too lazy to tweet today so I’m just going to RT everyone else. #
• @trombonekenny tweevo looks awesome. I was very disapponted to see tht it requires windows. Maybe I’ll write one in python. in reply to trombonekenny #
• Google thinks that TCP should be more aggressive: http://bitsup.blogspot.com/2009/07/google-thinks-tcp-should-be-more.html #
• @engineerz You only need 3 hours of sleep a night to stay sane according to my dad. in reply to engineerz #
• AT&T Getting HTC Desire in may or June?
  http://is.gd/92D4t #
• @corbinsiddall you aren’t doing integrity anymore? in reply to corbinsiddall #

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• I’m thinking I shouldn’t expect my Illinois state tax return anytime soon (or at all). #
• I think the 10.0 service release of #junos for EX series has finally fixed the loopback firewall filter weirdness. #
• RT: @sullrich Why you should not use social media sites such as foursquare, etc. http://pleaserobme.com/ #
• Switched back to my #pfsense 2.0-BETA1 box to hopefully work on some stuff. Rock solid 1.2.3 box waiting in case I break it =) #
• #pfsense Layer7 Rules are REALLY sweet. Kudos. #
• Watching the olympic snowboarding. We skateboarders give a collective “you’re welcome” for pioneering pretty much everything you do. #
• @sn0weater I just realized how much you look like a creepy dude in that picture. in reply to sn0weater #
• @sn0weater although its probably still better than mine from 5 years ago at SC05. in reply to sn0weater #
• Yawn. Mornings aren’t my bag, baby. #
• RT @RadishSpirit: There’s awake, and then there’s up. I’m up.
  –amen #
• Traffic around Chicago always infuriates me but at least I made it into WI for some New glarus beer. #
• @scpinkerton indeed. Finally back in champaign and able to crack one open!! in reply to scpinkerton #

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• @jlivingood: –I’m chomping at the bit for this!!! I’d be interested to know how comcast handling dns WRT google opt in v6. #
• @billmarquette yikes. in reply to billmarquette #
• @jlivingood thx. I somehow missed that dns piece of the FAQ. in reply to jlivingood #
• *grumble* regarding junos loopback firewall bug on ex series #juniper. #
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• Finally got hands on with a google nexus one. Impressive. Very impressive. #
• “I told another coffee club member that I’m cutting back on my coffee consumption. He threw my mug on the ground!” @liquidrider148 deserved #
• @trombonekenny I do that with ng beer about every 8mos. It’s one of my favorite breweries of all time. in reply to trombonekenny #
• Wondering what all of the buzz is about google buzz. I may have to check it out. #
• So far google buzz looks like a google wave/Twitter hybrid. It seems pretty slick, actually. #
• @Vap0rz Starcraft, ehhh. I’d like to play subspace again but I cand find a mac client. in reply to Vap0rz #
• @tsrimovsky getting what? in reply to tsrimovsky #
• Seriously?!?! I feel like I’m getting a cold. This shit is getting old, I’ve been !=sick about a total of a week out of the last month. #
• Monkey hate clean. #

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• Up super early to tweak some routing. Need coffee. #
• @trombonekenny you lack experience and vision re: v6 in reply to trombonekenny #
• @ancker010 @trombonekenny We should probably just move back to classful addressing. #ipv6 #turedandgrumpy #
• @trombonekenny We should champion it. We can usher in an era of 128bit addressing. =) And all will rejoice because it is good. Amen. #ipv6 in reply to trombonekenny #
• I’m delirious with tiredness. Probably going to have to skip hitting the mats at the gym tonight #
• @Techno_Cat @trombonekenny. Good info for folks that don’t have PI oe PA space. #
• Birthday winding down. Wrecked, sick kid -2. Day off, Flip camera, taxes done, cookies and New Belgium Ranger IPA +4. Overall a good 35th #
• Wrecked car, sick kid = -2. Day off, Flip camera, taxes done, cookies and New Belgium Ranger IPA = +5. Overall, a good 35th birthday. #
• @radishspirit @Schlafly makes some goooooooood brew. I needto get back down there. #
• @VonWelch yeah. R slid and hit a curb damaging the new forrester but she was ok so it’s no big deal. in reply to VonWelch #
• Thanks for the birthday wishes yesterday! #
• I find it interesting that turbotax is advertising mint.com and not quicken online after taxes are finished. #
• @jwrage yikes in reply to jwrage #
• Ahh hello stomach flu. I was wondering when you’d hit me since you visited the rest of the family already. #

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• @jlivingood I absolutely would test IPv6. I’ve been using it 4 years via a tunnel at home and natively at work. It needs to be everywhere in reply to jlivingood #
• @jlivingoodand re: IPv6, I could name 10 other highly technical ppl throughout the US that would actually use it and give *useful* feedback. #
• Taxes are boring. #
• @Jokerjitsu I think you can get that in Indiana too….that pesky midwest region. in reply to Jokerjitsu #
• @jlivingood I’m ready. I’m tired of tunneling v6 to get to work stuff. I sent you mail re: v6 transit via comcast site as well. in reply to jlivingood #
• Dark horse blueberry stout and chocate ice cream was not on my diet/workout plan….still totally worth it. #
• Heading back from replacing an optic in our adva gear in chi. Had some lunch with @jdugan #
• Holy CRAP!! @comcast is offering an IPv6 beta service! http://www.comcast6.net #win SIGN ME UP! #
• @corbinsiddall Seriously. I feel like it’s 2003 all over again (re: IPv6). Hopefully I’ll get on the trial early so I can drop my old tunnel in reply to corbinsiddall #
• @jlivingood already done!! Thanks!! in reply to jlivingood #
• I HAVE to watch smokey and the bandit whenever it’s on. It reminds me of being a kid. It’s also a great movie. East bound and down, baby. #
• @FlipTheBit oddly enough, I actually do. Very uncommon for me to have any American lager in the house but very apropriate in this case. in reply to FlipTheBit #
• @queritor join the club. in reply to queritor #
• My switcheasy capsule rebel iPhone case has pretty much fallen apart after almost 2 years of use. I’ll be sans case from now on I guess. #
• Ive had a case on an iPhone so long I forgot how thin and elegant they really are. I may leave this iPhone “naked” and hope I don’t break it #
• @ancker010 so far I’m one day safe. I had my original iPhone naked forever and it was fine. We’ll see. in reply to ancker010 #
• Good coffee and Bill and Ted on tv. Bill and Ted reminds me of high school. #
• @RadishSpirit you know it. in reply to RadishSpirit #
• AT&T-friendly Nexus One passes through the FCC
  http://is.gd/7mglz #
• I think it may be time for me to look at QEMU again. #
• Another todo list item is to get the rest of the parts for 10gal homebrew boil and all grain. Between my cousin and I we are 90% there. #
• @RadishSpirit I’ll be working on that project sooner than I think too. in reply to RadishSpirit #
• Late lunch at Milo’s in Urbana….always amazing. #
• I’m not sure if I dig this new mirrored screen protector I put on my iPhone. #
• @Vap0rz agreed. in reply to Vap0rz #
• RT @VonWelch: Abode Air fails to update itself again. Hard to recall something as unreliable. –windows? #
• Mac OS X 10.3 installed on Nokia N900 via PearPC, barely usable for impatient geeks
  http://is.gd/7s2qx –filed under cool but useless #

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• RT @corbinsiddall: Can anyone point me to a non-Christian organization that is helping in Haiti? –Doctors w/o Borders #
• RT @corbinsiddall: I’m just curious. Can anyone point me to a non-Christian organization that is helping in Haiti? –Tzu Chi (Buddhist) #
• @queritor I use it for sec analysis as well as network baselining and to find heavy network users in reply to queritor #
• Home with the sore throat going through my house. Reading about QoS on a new device is making me tired. #
• Apple iPhone OS 4.0 features detailed! Also, Apple calling tablet the iTablet?
  http://is.gd/6DpPW #
• @joshmeans no, that’s the year your body starts to fall apart. in reply to joshmeans #
• Blah. I’m sick of this sore throat. #
• Finally?!?! Rumor: Real Multitasking for iPhone Coming with OS 4.0

  http://is.gd/6Fk1T #

• @sullrich I’d be really curious on your opinion of that nexus one. in reply to sullrich #
• Back from Clinton. No matter how long I’ve not lived there it still feels like home. #
• @ancker010 Thats because poopston is a butthole in comparison. I mean look who came from there! You? @icepick74 ’nuff said. =) in reply to ancker010 #
• Nice! Limelight networks is embracing ipv6. My fav. quote from that: “OSPFv3, no…wait ISIS”. I guess I should pay attention to NANOG again #
• @ancker010 clive owen is cool but julia roberts just looks like a horse. that said, I’d like to see it. in reply to ancker010 #
• RT @weeklyroast: http://twitpic.com/zdda2 - Large french press of our El Salvador Matalapa coffee… malt sweetness, balanced, syrupy body. #
• RT @ancker010: Got my @weeklyroast shipment! Can’t wait! –you should bring that to work so I can have some #
• @decks24 no, just the expensive school. in reply to decks24 #
• Blah, restoring my iPhone. I think I’m done with jailbreaking for a while (again). Every time the iPhone ends up in slow, unusable state. #
• @merlyn I don’t run mine 24×7 but it’s close. Mine seems to be running fine after 1.5 years of doing so. it’s been my MO since orig Tibook. in reply to merlyn #
• I wish @comcast offered an alpha or beta of native IPv6 transit. I’d happily sign up. Hell, I’d even apply 4 it, pretty sure I’m qualified #
• Android on your nokia n900? Already been done: http://is.gd/6XqnD #

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I’ve been making mead as long as I’ve been making beer, and frankly, mead is much easier. I’m not a big wine drinker or really even a fan of wine, but mead is so easy to make and it turns out well with minimal work so I make it a few times a year. Here is a quick and dirty howto on making simple, traditional mead that I threw together a few nights ago:

Mead is a good choice for those wanting to start with zymology, as it takes few ingredients and can be done on a budget. Mead is simple. Many folks, like in brewing, have a lot to say about checking this and that, boiling the must, etc.
I choose to go very basic, start with a base mead and then add fruit later.
If you’re interested in making mead and want some quick mead recipes or just general information, check out gotmead.com, they have links and a wealth of information on the subject.

I’ve not updated in quite some time. The main reason being that I’m too busy/lazy to recompile php and need xml support to use mobile apps to compose and post….the second reason being that I’ve been using twitter a lot. You can follow my [using random] rantings and thoughts here if you’re interested. If not, I should be updating this from time to time as well with more [hopefully] well thought out, in depth stuff. Until that next post, here are some twitter stats:

I’m frustrated. I really love my iphone. I’ve had one since the beginning, but I am feeling a bit of device envy for some of those “other” phones out there. I really like that I am basically carrying a unix box around in my pocket, and that I can install apps and sync calendars and contact and get email…..and that it all works seamlessly from my mac.
Many of those things are actually pretty straightforward and widely available…..if you have a PC. Now, RIM has released the new mac Blackberry app, and it works pretty well…it’s like 2002 for mac users with blackberries!
This is the niche that the iPhone filled.
Unfortunately, all of the politics and apple-ness has also come with that nice package. They want to control the user experience, and for the most part they do a fantastic job of it. I’ve always been a big apple fan, even when their OS sucked (and how; remember OS7?), but I’m also a control freak. I want to be able to tweak….without violating some arbitrary user agreement.
I want to be able to run the apps that I want to run, not what some carrier or some hardware company wants me to run. So, to that end, I will be considering all other devices that can perform similarly when the time is here to upgrade.

Lets go over a few things.

Here are the things that I am looking for:

Media support of mp3, video, audiobook
Full mac support for adding media (music, video, audiobooks)
Support for secure syncing of contacts (via either mac or OTA)
Support for secure syncing calendar OTA.
Secure email support of more than 2 accounts (activesync or imap).
Ability to install all available apps [easily, without a hack].
Unix based operating system
802.11g wifi
3g cellular support
>=2.0mp camera
ability to lock screen with code
video recording capability

Extra points for:
Supporting my existing provider (AT&T)
expandable memory
user replaceable battery
*not* having to jailbreak or hack device to unsupported state to accomplish all requirements

So far the contenders are:
Nokia n900
Motorola Droid
Palm pre
LG eve(?)
SE Xperia X10(?)

Does anyone else have any suggestions?