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I have one hand in my pocket

By Nick On 2008/10/27 · · In Personal

I rarely carry cash around (as evident by the many lunches I owe coworkers) and often times find bones of it in pockets. Tonight as I threw on my jacket from last years cold spell I found a bill wrapped around the inner chest pocket. Like a time capsule my mind raced to when the [...]

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Leaving for the city

By Nick On 2008/10/26 · · In Personal

This morning with my lungs pressed up against the cool morning air I ran through the country. Past the cows in the pasture and up the hill where the horses drink from the pond. This backdrop is like a cheesy background you find draped against people’s computer screens to make them forget the cube they [...]

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I hate Windows

By Nick On 2008/10/26 · · In Personal, Techie

I run Windows XP in a virtual machine for those few programs that lack Linux and Mac clients. I booted my FULLY PATCHED, FIREWALLED, and Windows XP Service Pack 3 to find gay sex fetish icons. Oh, gosh, I didn’t even realize I loved me some gay pr0n. When we move to virtualized solutions and [...]

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NetBackup with RHEL5 – CentOS IPTables

By Nick On 2008/10/24 · · In Techie

First you need to open the iptables firewall settings:

## NetBackup Client Firewall Ports
iptables -D RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -j REJECT –reject-with icmp-host-prohibited

iptables -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m state –state NEW -p tcp –dport bpcd-j ACCEPT –src <ip of master server>

iptables -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -j REJECT –reject-with icmp-host-prohibited

/etc/init.d/iptables restart

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Dress Code

By Nick On 2008/10/16 · · In Personal

I dress like a big geek sometimes. It isn’t uncommon to see me roll into work with jeans on and an untucked Polo shirt. On really bad days (the ones where I never made it home to sleep) you will see me in a Tshirt from time to time. Don’t get me wrong, if I [...]

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    • Nick Schmidt lives passionately in the digital world advising and advancing technology everywhere he goes. He has served in the US Air Force, been a self-employed consultant, a senior manager and chief engineer at Boeing, and now co-founding and running Spec Ops Technology. Decorated in his military and professional career you can find his work in the nations networks and across the web.

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