She’s here! Natalie Emily Lemire was born on September 6th 10:20 PM at the Grey Nuns Community Hospital.
Natalie weighed in at a colossal 4.15 kg (9 pounds, 2 ounces) and measured an impressive 59 cm.
To those 60% of you who voted boy on the poll Natalie would like to stress the following: “ha!”
Never quit moving this whole weekend. Finally managed to dedicate the time, along with Jessie’s parents to get the baby’s rooms ready for the arrival.
Started at around 10:00 AM Saturday morning and did not stop until this evening…
Like most whom are geeky enough to run a home server, I run my server headless (no keyboard or display attached). This is convenient 99% of the time (namely for everything excluding operating system upgrades or occasions where you firewall yourself out of your own machine while tweaking IPFW rules)…
Traditionally I avoided this problem via a PS/2 KVM switch between my server and desktop PC. That solution met it’s end when I ousted my last desktop PC. In order to continue with the KVM style setup I would need to find a KVM equipped with USB keyboard and mouse ports and both VGA and DVI display ports, which apparently is not easy to come by short of some very high end setups.
It seems more often then not, the old fashioned strategies yield the greatest success. I opted for a NULL Modem cable (1969 called, they want their RS-232 back) and a Keyspan USA-19HS USB to Serial adapter for the Mac Mini.
The AirSurfer WISP network I manage for Triton Networking Solutions Ltd. utilizes hundreds of Motorola Canopy Subscriber modules to connect individual broadband clients to our network.
In order to mass manage these devices, Motorola provides CNUT. CNUT is a great tool, but in spite of the fact that it was written in cross platform languages from day one (Currently Java, previously some Perl in the mix for good measure) it is only packaged for Windows and Linux systems.
I’ve been dissatisfied for some time in the exclusion of support for CNUT on my desktop OS of choice. Being in a creative and inspired mood late yesterday evening, I did what any self respecting, Canopy using, red blooded, vigilante coding network geek would do.
Due to the limited quality of indoor photographs and a deal too good to pass up at London Drugs, I decided it was time to retire my aging Sony Cyber-shot DSC-P32.
At $289 for the Olympus SP-510 UZ including a 1 GB xD memory card the combo was approximately $100 below the typical retail price…
