Flyover

Check out what just flew over our building.  The picture isn't great, but it looked as if it was a stealth fighter.

iPhone 2.0.2 Released

Updating now.  So far I haven't had many issues.  Occasionally a downloaded app will crash on start, but hey they are free right!

Really Cool Turn Signal Mod

A poster over at BadWeb has created a really cool LED turn signal kit.  I believe you can also purchase them from him.  Send him a PM on the http://www.badweatherbikers.com/ (username Reuel) Buell message Board.

VLAN tags - How to make your switch Virtual

So you are an entry level IT person, maybe the only IT person in your company.  You need to deploy a virtual infrastructure on a budget that can't have too much in the way of extras.  One way to save some coin, and this is also used in very large installations as well, is to use VLANS.  For some reason, VLANS are still thought of as voodoo, or some type of black magic by quite a few network admins.  They don't totally understand what VLANS (Virtual Lans) are, or how they work.  In layman's terms, all a vlan is a logical seperation of your physical lan into multiple virtual segments.  This allows two ports on the same switch to by virtually isolated from one another.  One could be on say vlan 10, while the other is on vlan 20, etc.  Placing a switchport into a VLAN is rather simple.  Below is the syntax for creating a vlan, and assigning it to an interface.

First you want to instantiate the vlan.  This can be done a couple different ways, however this is how I prefer to do it.

Enter enable, and config terminal mode.

>vlan 20
vlan20>description Internet VLAN
vlan20>exit
>

That is all you have to do to create a VLAN, now lets tie it to an interface.
>int FastEthernet0/0
FE0/0>switchport mode access
FE0/0>switchport access vlan 20
FE0/0>exit
>
wr

Thats it.  That is how you create a vlan, and tag an interface.  Be sure that if you need to pass traffic between two vlans, you must place a routing device between them.

Diet Update

July was a little bit harder to get the weight off in.  Seems like just the change in diet isn't quite enough to keep the moementum I had last month.  Plus, who knows how much of the initial 15lb loss was probably water.  So, as of August 1st, I weighed in at 246.  Not bad.  4lbs in the month of July.  Since about the 20th of July I have been hitting my bowflex 2 or 3 times a week, which seems to help.  I don't know how much muscle gain vs fat burning is happening and how that's affecting the total weight, but I can report that the size 38 pants are beginning to fit again.

Pics of My Buell Blast

My 2005 Buell Blast

Its been awhile

When I started this blog, I was putting in an entry daily, now it seems to just be twice a week.  I am going to try to refocus, and get back to daily posting next week.  Things at the office have been pretty hectic, and finding time to blog has been pretty rough.

With that said, I wanted to throw a quick 30 days (or so) review of iPhone 2.0 out there.  So far, its been flawless.  I have several apps, which I outlined in an earlier post, along with about 3 or 4 email accounts depending upon the day.  The battery life is doing much better now that I have everything but exchange checking for mail every 10 minutes.  Do I miss the GPS, or 3G speeds?  Not really.  So far, the 2.0 software update has made me an even more ecstatic and completely satisfied iPhone user.

Buell pictures as promised will be posted very soon.

It's in the garage!

I ended up getting a used 2005 Buell Blast that I picked up in a private party sale from a family just 3 miles down the road.  I will post some picks this weekend.