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Hi,

For those who haven’t heard Rackspace offered me a position as a Linux engineer II.  Located at their San Antonio Tx Location.   They made a great offer and paid to relocate us to Texas.  Pack and Ship, as well as ship one of the Vehicles.

We made it down to Texas Tuesday the 17th,  I would recommend Flying, 1200 Miles in an explorer with my Wife, Samara (tabby), Jazziril and Sydney (peanut) our Australian shepherds.  Plus all of our (movers won’t ship) stuff and cloths and provisions for a week or so.  Not the  ”Best trip ever Dad” we romanticized. Especially since we don’t usually travel.

We found a house in Converse Tx about 8 miles from my new Gig.  A great improvement to my previous 43 mile 1.2 hour commute to Downtown Chicago.  We signed a 1 year lease and since we know no one here, if it’s not the best of places, we’ll have an out.

My sister in law seems to be more excited about our move than we are.  My Brother is taking on all the work of supervision the pack, Load, and prepping the house for sale back in Indiana,  I can’t thank him enough.

All of the critters seem to be adjusting well to the new house.  Jazz and Sydney are fine where ever we are.. and Samara is coming out and investigating the place..

First Day at Rackspace is Jan 30 and I’m really looking forward to the challenge of the new Job and the focus on Linux administration and development.   And the Diet Pepsi on Tap (eek).

I’ll be updating as time passes.   for now..   Cya!

A Work colleague  pointed this article out to me and She brings up some interesting points.

An article was published yesterday in one of Austin’s local papers about Austin’s tech talent shortage. I was job hunting just a couple months ago and get a lot of calls from recruiters and hear about friends’ companies who are hiring and I think it’s pretty damned accurate. And by accurate I mean that it points out how fucking ridiculous some of these companies are being. Flying out to SF to try and steal engineers away but not being willing to match their salaries? Seriously?

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Let the conspiracy theories abound.  How much of this is to Track us with our current position being fed back to the cell companies.  Who will Gladly turn over all of the information to the Fed.

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In 2009, while Microsoft was busy designing and marketing what would become the Kinect, [Carlos Anzola], an inventor, tinkerer, and self-ascribed geek from Bogotá, Colombia, had been working for years on a nearly identical gesture interface for the PC. His creation, the Human interface Electronic Device, or HiE-D – pronounced ‘Heidi’ - was capable of gesture recognition years before Microsoft would release the Kinect.

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We have a New Addition the the Buchaus Family.  Sydney, another Australian shepherd.  Born 12/25/2010  She and Jazz are already wearing each other out.

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Coraid is that niche ATA over Ethernet (AOE) vendor that’s always about to break out of its reservation but never has. That could be about to change if things we’re hearing from resellers are true.

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We Tried purchasing Coraid via the CDW Channel. Two very disturbing factors were expressed as requirements to purchase. 75% of the tray had to be full of their $279 1TB sata Hard Drives (12 of 16) and the $800+ service contract. so the 4000 tray + 4100 in drives and contract to replace them will keep them from breaking out.

After I expressed the unwillingness to pay 3 X what I could get a 2TB sata drive for. They Stayed firm on the drive requirements and service contract.

we’re using regular PC with Debian and AOE from the Main stream kernel.

Motorola and T-Mobile today announced the Cliq 2, a follow up device to the original Cliq.

This version is to  come with Android 2.2  SO  this is why the cliq can’t run 2.0+ yet

I own one of these Cliq’s and I have to say that I am Very disappointed with Motorola’s offering

This only took a year.  I’ve already dumped my CLIQ and bought a Nexus one.. love android now. and the nexus.  Never again will I buy a motorola smartphone.  cause I’ll bet you still can’t root them.

T-Mobile Testing Android 2.1 Update for Motorola CLIQ: “

T-Mobile confirmed to Phone Scoop via email that it is currently testing the Android 2.1 update for the Motorola CLIQ. A T-Mobile spokesperson said, ‘Motorola and T-Mobile are currently conducting a user trial for a CLIQ upgrade to Android 2.1 and are gathering feedback. We expect full deployment to begin shortly after this testing period.’ Meanwhile, Motorola has posted instructions on its web site on how to perform a manual update to Android 2.1.

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AT&T: Net rules must allow ‘paid prioritization’ | Politics and Law – CNET News: “

August 31, 2010 2:17 PM PDT AT&T: Net rules must allow ‘paid prioritization’ by Declan McCullagh Font size Print E-mail Share 69 comments Share   65 1 AT&T said Tuesday that any Net neutrality plan restricting its ability to engage in ‘paid prioritization’ of network traffic would be harmful and contrary to the fundamental principles of the Internet. Telecommunications providers need the ability to set different prices for different forms of Internet service, AT&T said, adding that it already has ‘hundreds’ of customers who have paid extra for higher-priority services. ‘Our view is that if the Federal Communications Commission is going to be making policy decisions on this front, it should base them on the facts, as opposed to dogma,’ an AT&T rep”