Andy Wright

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Current & Updating Webalizer Search Engine List

Andy Wright posted an article on - Feb 2, 2012, 7:40 am
as of 2012-02-02 The Webalizer is a HTTP server log analyzer that generates HTML visual output statistics with graphs about Internet websites and its visitors.  One of the many features of The Webalizer is its search engine query (keywords) referral logging.  Each search engine uses a URL p...
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Postfix TLS Fingerprints for MTA to MTA Identification

Andy Wright posted an article on - Jan 28, 2012, 7:39 am
edited 2012-01-28 11:30:43 I have a home mail server with a Linux operating system & Postfix that is the primary mail exchange (MX) for its domain.  In addition to the primary MTA, I have a static secondary relay mail server with a FreeBSD operating system & Postfix in the case my home conne...
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Firefox Now Does a Rapid Release (Backport) on Ubuntu

Andy Wright posted an article on - Jan 27, 2012, 5:42 pm
This morning I noticed APT had a new version of Firefox waiting to be updated.  Firefox 9.0.1 was a welcomed update for my 10.04 LTS Xubuntu installation.  Ubuntu will now be releasing the browser upgrades as Mozilla rolls out it's web browser application with the next generation of Internet techn...
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Welcome to our Team

Andy Wright posted an article on - Jan 27, 2012, 9:37 am
Welcome to our team rick, you are among friends! Keep your boxes blazed!
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Kwik Trip Coffee

Andy Wright posted an article on - Jan 25, 2012, 3:52 pm
Kwik Trip is predominantly a Wisconsin and Minnesota convenience store and gas station.  It is king of gas in my area and once the king-quick-stop for morning coffee. Up until about 3 years ago Kwik Trip brewed a fine roast of well tasting caffeine filled coffee to kick-start the morning.  ...
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Are you ready for SOPA? - January 18th!

Andy Wright posted an article on - Jan 17, 2012, 5:38 pm
The Stop On-line Piracy Act (SOPA) is in a full forced backlash from Internet giants such as WikipediA and our beloved BoingBoing whom are participating in the SOPA Strike, a 12 hour period in which volunteer domain owners will turn the electric off to their sites.  The SOPA Strike page link above ...
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Dumbest Company Decision of 2011

Andy Wright posted an article on - Dec 30, 2011, 4:55 pm
Verizon announced yesterday (December 29th, 2011) that they will be adding a $2.00 charge for paying your wireless bill on-line (paperless) starting January 15th, 2012.  Snail mail (USPS) processing of paper checks, money orders, or wired checking account transfers do not apply.  Today, December 3...
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A FreeBSD Christmas Advisory

Andy Wright posted an article on - Dec 25, 2011, 1:26 pm
On December 23rd, 2011 FreeBSD administrators were blessed with 5 high severity security advisories.  With some humor of a very unusual increase in fear on a single day, 5 security advisories total, the FreeBSD foundation sent out a follow-up after the advisories posted: Hi all, No, ...
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EINSTEIN@HOME Discovers a Second New Radio Pulsar from the Arecibo Observatory

Andy Wright posted an article on - Nov 10, 2011, 5:16 pm
11/08/2011 04:56 AM Einstein@Home discovers a second new radio pulsar in Arecibo "Mock" data! Einstein@Home has discovered a fourth new radio pulsar, J1952+25, in data from the Arecibo Observatory. This is the second Einstein@Home discovery in Arecibo data taken with the new "Mock" back...
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EINSTEIN@HOME Discovers a New Radio Pulsar

Andy Wright posted an article on - Oct 27, 2011, 6:04 pm
I am delighted to announce that Einstein@Home has discovered a third new radio pulsar in data from the Arecibo Observatory. This is the first Einstein@Home discovery in Arecibo data taken with the new "Mock" back-end spectrometer. The pulsar is unusually interesting, as is a short-period...
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Welcome to our Team

Andy Wright posted an article on - Oct 17, 2011, 9:01 am
Welcome to our team pizzamig, you are among friends! Keep your boxes blazed!
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Perrot State Park Fall Colors Camping

Andy Wright posted an article on - Oct 13, 2011, 11:00 am
Perrot State Park in Trempeleau Wisconsin is amazingly beautiful during the fall season.  I had the opportunity to camp there for 8 nights and 9 days, October 1st through the 9th, 2011. I arrived on a Saturday to an abundance of outdoor scenic outlooks and a busy park with visitors from all ...
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Welcome to our Team

Andy Wright posted an article on - Sep 24, 2011, 5:17 pm
Welcome to our team Dennis Greenberg, you are among friends! Keep your boxes blazed!
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Baby Interaction with Computers - 1 Year O

Andy Wright posted an article on - Sep 21, 2011, 12:48 pm
Taking observation to a 1 year old male child interacting with a computer - its keyboard and monitor, I noted some interesting interactions that I will attempt to depict that may be a viable progressive design mechanisms for modern computer hardware. The child was sitting on a lap positioned ...
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Implanted 9/11 Revisited - Forever Brave

Andy Wright posted an article on - Sep 11, 2011, 7:14 pm
Ten years ago today I woke up to a pot of coffee, turned on Wisconsin Public Radio (WPR/NPR/PRI/BBC) when the programming was quickly interrupted with a foggy description of an unknown event in New York.  I was still a bit sluggish, though I soon tuned in to my CRT TV on ABC and started to watch th...
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Foods Rich in Potassium - Taking the Banan

Andy Wright posted an article on - Aug 29, 2011, 4:34 pm
Foods Rich in Potassium Food Size Potassium (in milligrams) Baked potato with skin 1 medium 850 Spinach 1 cup 840 Cantaloupe 1/2 medium 825 Lima beans 1/2 cup 580 Banana 1 medium 560 Orange juice 8 o...
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EINSTEIN@HOME Discoveries Blossom in the P

Andy Wright posted an article on - Aug 20, 2011, 7:31 am
On August 19th, 2011, three new radio pulsars discoveries were announced in the Parkes data by users donating computer time for the Boinc Einstein@Home project.  About one month earlier, July 26th, 2011 a sixth discovery was detected.  This brings the total pulsar discoveries to the count of nine ...
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Javascript Flash Text

Andy Wright posted an article on - Aug 10, 2011, 5:19 am
The HTML 'Blink' element is quickly making its way out of the web browser rendering engines.  IE (Internet Explorer) ignores this element and will only display the text you want flashing as a normal textual output with no decorations. I put together an easy script which will modify a CSS DIV...
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Welcome to our Team

Andy Wright posted an article on - Aug 3, 2011, 9:35 pm
Welcome to our team woters, you are among friends! Keep your boxes blazed!
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The Coffee House Paradox

Andy Wright posted an article on - Aug 3, 2011, 7:28 pm
As a 34 year old male who has drank coffee since the age of 15, I have visited an ever expanding growing list of both largely popular and small local coffee house establishments.  While Sippin' & Surf'n I have experienced these popular Java grounds from these establishments at home along with fresh...
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Dear Speaker Boehner Letter

Andy Wright posted an article on - Jul 28, 2011, 6:54 pm
Speaker Boehner, Please look inside yourself and try to discover the time span in which your idealism for this country has varied in any form from your past. Peer pressure is a term often coined for youth, however special interests from bullies and the resulting education for how to deal wit...
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Litigation Against the AT&T and T-Mobi

Andy Wright posted an article on - Jul 22, 2011, 4:41 pm
updated 2011-08-09 Fight AT&T's Takeover of T-Mobile - Get Involved, you may be eligible for compensation!  You may also take action here: Stop the AT&T T-Mobile Merger   PCMag.com: AT&T Customers Challenge AT&T, T-Mobile Merger "We've assembled a team of lawyers across the cou...
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EINSTEIN@HOME Crunches on the Fermi Parado

Andy Wright posted an article on - Jul 11, 2011, 7:43 pm
Announcement We are launching a new Einstein@Home application, which searches data from the Fermi Large Area Telescope (Fermi-LAT) for millisecond (or slower) gamma-ray pulsars. The Fermi Satellite was launched in mid-2008 and has already discovered a number of new gamma-ray pulsars. ...
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Android Windows PC Remote - Unified

Andy Wright posted an article on - Jul 8, 2011, 4:25 pm
While browsing the Android market for a media player, I was given a Googleized suggestion for an application called Unified.  The summary for the application described itself as: Unified Remote - Easily, the most feature-filled Android-PC remote.  Since I was currently living in the late 90's usin...
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Helichrysum

Andy Wright posted an article on - Jul 3, 2011, 6:17 pm
Helichrysum is in the Sunflower family and is grouped with approximately 600 species of this genus.  Today I purchased a small Helichrysum italicum or rather Helichrysum angustifolium young plant. Helichrysum of the angustifolium type prefers full sun and at minimum 8 hours of daily sun.  ...
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Lightweight WINS Server - LWINS

Andy Wright posted an article on - Jun 19, 2011, 10:07 am
I use a Cobalt RAQ (MIPS) for most of my general network services.  These services include DHCP, BIND (DNS), SMTP, NTP, and WINS.  I decided to look around to replace Samba's NMBD WINS service and came across the LWINS project. LWINS is a lightweight WINS server capable of running on ...
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Welcome to our Team

Andy Wright posted an article on - Jun 7, 2011, 10:37 am
Welcome to our team, stockhacker, you are among friends! Keep your boxes blazed!
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Perrot State Park, Trempealeau Wisconsin -

Andy Wright posted an article on - Jun 6, 2011, 8:06 am
A friend and myself decided to go camping at Perrot State Park in Trempealeau Wisconsin last weekend (June 3rd - 5th, 2011).  It is a beautiful park with many hiking trails, biking trails, and canoe rental if you would like to brave the water or hike on Perrot Mountain. We wanted a more priv...
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Einstein@Home Certificate of Computation f

Andy Wright posted an article on - May 29, 2011, 11:36 pm
Certificate of Computation This certifies that team FreeBSD has participated in Einstein@Home since 20 February 2005 and has contributed 20,818,986 Cobblestones of computation (17.99 quantillian floating-point operations) to Einstein@Home. For May 17th, 2011
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La Crosse Wisconsin Tornado

Andy Wright posted an article on - May 29, 2011, 10:33 pm
On May 22nd, 2011 an EF2 rated tornado made it's way 2.3 miles in the south side of La Crosse.  The tornado touched ground and is estimated to have remained active for four minutes with a width of 150 yards.  The tornado made its way from the Green Island Park area in La Crosse to the east bluffs ...
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Welcome to our Team

Andy Wright posted an article on - May 29, 2011, 1:57 pm
Welcome to our team, Paulo Nolberto dos Santos Alarcón, you are among friends!  Keep your boxes blazed!
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HOWTO: Root Your Samsung Intercept Froyo A

Andy Wright posted an article on - May 17, 2011, 1:47 am
Thanks to latinmaxima with help from Kuroyoma on SDX, the following directions will allow you to root your Samsung Intercept Android 2.2 (Froyo) Sprint phone. The software needed for root access on the Intercept: Google USB Driver ADB (Android Debug Bridge) The root kit is ava...
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EINSTEIN@HOME - FreeBSD Certificate of Com

Andy Wright posted an article on - May 16, 2011, 10:27 pm
Certificate of Computation This certifies that team FreeBSD has participated in Einstein@Home since 20 February 2005, and has contributed 20,818,986 Cobblestones of computation (17.99 quintillion floating-point operations) to Einstein@Home. 17 May 2011 (Download)
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La Crosse Wisconsin State Representative J

Andy Wright posted an article on - May 13, 2011, 5:54 pm
Representative Jennifer Shilling Legislative Survey 2011 "Your opinion is important to me. Please take a few moments to let me know your thoughts on these issues that have been proposed and will be debated during the budget process." - Jennifer Shilling 1) Please circle the statemen...
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Rehydrate and Flavor Cigarette Tobacco usi

Andy Wright posted an article on - May 11, 2011, 9:18 pm
Tobacco essential oil is available from numerous Internet aromatherapy distributors and local health food retail outlets.  In most cases tobacco essential oil does not contain nicotine.  Flavoring tobacco using essential oils allows you to continue your habit on the cheap by purchasing tobacco in ...
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NASA Announces: Einstein was right again, 

Andy Wright posted an article on - May 5, 2011, 6:10 am
May 4, 2011: Einstein was right again. There is a space-time vortex around Earth, and its shape precisely matches the predictions of Einstein's theory of gravity. Researchers confirmed these points at a press conference today at NASA headquarters where they announced the l...
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Hunter 30030 Microban (HEPAtech) HEPA Filt

Andy Wright posted an article on - Apr 27, 2011, 6:41 pm
The Hunter HEPA filter model 30030 was on sale at Menards in La Crosse Wisconsin for $28.  Because of allergies I grabbed what looked to be a bargain, though I am still considering its cost benefit. The HEPAtech HEPA filter unit has an on or off selectable ionizer in addition to the HEPA fil...
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It is Squirrel Thursday! - Evil Squirrel T

Andy Wright posted an article on - Apr 21, 2011, 5:01 pm
Evil Squirrel Takes Over New Jersey - Three years from this incident Kaos is not to be found described by both Fur and two legged as a blessing for Internet resources.  No funeral is expected for kaosboy13
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Welcome to the FreeBSD Team & Project 

Andy Wright posted an article on - Apr 11, 2011, 4:01 am
Einstein@home   Institution University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee and the Albert Einstein Institute Status Active Official Launch 19 February 2005 (beta testing began 19 November 2004) Platforms Mac OS X, Mac OS X (NVIDIA GPU), Mac OS X (NVIDIA GP...
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Omission Bias

Andy Wright posted an article on - Apr 3, 2011, 12:22 pm
There are four people stuck on a train track.  You are in the train.  The operator is incapacitated and you don't know how to work the breaks.  You do see a lever however that would put the train on an alternative track.  However, there is one person stuck on this track.  Would you switch track...
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Smith's Cycling and Fitness - Re-Built Sum

Andy Wright posted an article on - Apr 3, 2011, 7:39 am
My bike was in great need of an overhaul tune-up.  I took it to the Smith's Cycling and Fitness where I bought the bike to get a tune-up/maintenance and replace a number of parts. Where I live, most places are very accessible by bike.  With gas prices, car maintenance, and insurance, I rely...
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Michael Moore - Stephen Colbert a tool of 

Andy Wright posted an article on - Mar 29, 2011, 12:13 pm
Below is the video recording of Michael Moore on yesterday's TV show of the Colbert Report in which Michael Moore called Stephen Colbert a 'tool of Viacom' while proving the prosperity of work unions and defending the middle class.  He was immediately taken off of the air following that comment.  ...
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Gallery3: ImageMagick (convert) using PHP-

Andy Wright posted an article on - Mar 29, 2011, 7:55 am
I upgraded to Gallery3 from Gallery2 last night and had to make several accommodations for the new software with my current software systems which include: lighttpd (web server), fast-cgi (PHP), eAccelerator (opcode cacher), and htscanner (two declerations to modify PHP variables). "I found a...
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FreeBSD 7.1 End of Life (EOL) - Update to 

Andy Wright posted an article on - Mar 26, 2011, 7:02 am
My very trusty FreeBSD server, extserver.com, had been running a FreeBSD release that had reached its end of life (FreeBSD 7.1).  FreeBSD 7.4-RELEASE was made public and announced on 2/24/11 as the final release in the 7 branch with support available until an estimated date of February 28, 2013. &#...
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Introduction to Puberty

Andy Wright posted an article on - Mar 17, 2011, 2:14 pm
Your little body's changing, it's all good, believe me. The problem now is every time we jerk the gherkin we end up with a lot of unwanted sticky white stuff everywhere, right? So first order of business, no more socks. They are expensive, gumming up the works, plumbing wise. So you might...
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It is Squirrel Thursday! - Pictures in the

Andy Wright posted an article on - Mar 17, 2011, 1:00 am
In one of the Evil Fur's fort for the Squirrel Army, a Squirrel General (name unknown) had given permission for one two-legged entrance into the base on a temporary basis to document with photos the daily, natural life of these evil squirrels both on and off duty.  Here are the photo results: ...
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Green Valley Aromatherapy - The Next Young

Andy Wright posted an article on - Mar 14, 2011, 2:43 pm
edited 2011-03-19 Green Valley Aromatherapy published an article entitled, "Aromatherapy and ADD and ADHD", available here: "Several essential oils can be used to naturally reduce the symptoms of ADD and ADHD including: vetivert , lavender and cedarwood essential oils." - ...
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Updating Live: Japanese Earthquake and Nuc

Andy Wright posted an article on - Mar 12, 2011, 7:26 pm
updated 2011-03-16 Live Japanese Earthquake and Nuclear Reactors Official Update Sites REUTERS Live Coverage - Japan Earthquake IAEA Alert Log - Communications Update International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) - Facebook Updates Tokyo Electric Power Company - Press Release...
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EINSTEIN@HOME Discovery - Binary Radio Pul

Andy Wright posted an article on - Mar 8, 2011, 8:26 pm
(Feb 28, 2011 7:21 PM) A new preprint reports the second Einstein@Home discovery, of a radio pulsar orbiting a white dwarf star once every 9.4 hours. The pulsar, called J1952+2630, is spinning on its axis 48 times per second. It was discovered in data collected at Arecibo Observator...
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RCA ANT806 Reviewed - High Performance Uni

Andy Wright posted an article on - Mar 8, 2011, 9:37 am
The RCA ANT806 is an high performance amplified indoor or outdoor antenna for your standard definition TV (SD), high definition TV (HDTV) full 1080, and FM receivers. This RCA antenna is capable of receiving both VHF and UHF signals for a wide range of devices.  The VHF frequency range is 54...
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