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Got to program my first Cisco today…a PIX 501. Probably not the most amazing piece of hardware out there, but I’ve really only ever dealt with the low-end home user broadband routers… The kind with the web-based GUI and the simplified setup wizard. I’ve never had to configure anything through a command line… Never had to set up individual routes/interfaces on a router…
It was a bit intimidating at first… Plugging into a console connection with a serial cable… Getting an uninformative little command prompt with a blinking cursor… No big button that says Press Me, no simple GUI to guide me through it… But the on-line documentation was quite helpful, and the commands were all fairly self-explanatory. And, in the end, I’ve got a working Cisco router.
I can’t wait to install the thing next week and see how it works on-site.
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We rented The Thing Below over the weekend… Didn’t really look all that promising, even just from the cover, but it looked like it had all my favorite components of a Horror movie… So we rented it anyway. Well, we were right, it was not good.
The basic story is about some researchers on a remote drilling platform out in the ocean, who stumble across an alien lifeform that’s been burried underground for millions of years. This alien is grumpy, hungry, and deadly - it quickly kills just about everything that moves. To make things interesting, this creature has some kind of psychic ability to make you see things that aren’t there - like frighteningly large-breasted strippers. The whole thing seems almost like a lame attempt at retelling Who Goes There?, the story that inspired The Thing.
As I’ve already said, it was not a good movie. The first and most obvious flaw was with the dialogue. It almost seems like the writers intentionally tried to cram in every clicheed movie phrase they’d ever heard… The actors didn’t help matters much either, they all could have used quite a bit of help. The special effects were very poorly done as well… All very bad looking computer generated effects.
In the end, I was quite disappointed - especially bad considering how low my expectations were to start with. This movie just failed to deliver anything I’d call entertainment.
If I told you I’d have to kill everyone.
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