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We have a floating laminate floor in the house in San Antonio, and if you don’t already know they can resonate sound.  The sound of toe nails on this floor is how Sydney our youngest, who can’t seem to walk anywhere she trots, got the nick name “TickTick”.

Thursday Morning about 2am Jazziril (jazzy) our 3 year old Australian Shepherd woke us with frantic running in place while laying on his side.    We though it was an intense dream at first, but with more light and less fog in the head from being startled awake,  we learned he was having a seizure.   It lasted under 2 minuets.   Nana and I both were understandably scared for him.

We’ve done a bunch of reading on the subject now.  We’ve found that some bloodlines of Aussys have a genetic disposition toward seizures.   We’ve got a call in to the Breeder  Denise Hillman, to ask if she knows of any other of Jazz’s siblings.

The Other possibility is that Jazz had just received a 3 year rabies vaccination in the past 3 days..   Reading on this has show that seizures are in the list of side effects of rabies vaccinations.

http://www.ashgi.org/articles/epilepsy_canine_epilepsy.htm
http://www.dogs4dogs.com/dog-seizures-and-vaccination
http://www.dogs4dogs.com/truth4dogs.html

UPDATE:

Jazzy Last nite almost 30 days to the day has had a second seizure. We’re attempting to find external stimulus that may have caused this, but I’m thinking Genetics are the main factor.

Picked up a blurb here that hits close to the Heart.  Grouping in Yum needs some more granularity.. and some more default groups.

Red Hat Needs a Build-essentials Package

1.  Crap Products in the first Place 
See the Hundreds of dollars lost on ME 98 1st Vista 7

2. Force one to use their other products by making them incompatible with universal Standars.  Use Out look with CalDav  WebDav or Imap < not well anyway.

3. Microsoft Bans Employees From Using Apple Products As Work Machines
So you want someone else’s product  Not if you work for microsoft.  I wonder if we should completely boycott microsoft products  at apple or apple and MS at google.

I refer again to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft I do still believe microsoft is aiming to monopolize the industry.   Does their web browser (PRODCUT) run on anything but windows.  Can outlook use Any other calendaring system.?  Does window connect to NFS or AFS  ( not without paying for third party ware)

yet Linux OSX and other connect to smb/cifs quite regularly and from default installs.

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.

FCC Link
Tech Crunch
Phone Scoop

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.