General Update:

I'm sorry that I haven't written in this lately. Sometimes things in life go astray, and my weblog has been one of them. I haven't written lately, mostly due to the fact that I had nothing to say.

Now that I do, read on.

Downloaded and installed the 10.2.5 update. We'll see if this offers any kind of meaningful enhancements or fixes for my setup. To be fair, my only current problem with 10.2 is the poor SMB performance on my work network. I authenticate with my domain credentials to my local server and can browse shares without issue. When I try to copy files, it crawls at 16 kilobits per second instead of 100 megabits per second.

Anyone have any ideas?

What's up with this? Return of the old enemies from the cold war?

GPS jammer at the Russian Embassy in Baghdad?. This story on the Russian convoy which was shot at after leaving Baghdad contains the following: The business daily Kommersant reported Tuesday that the Russian diplomats had departed from Baghdad only after Secretary of State Colin Powell “repeatedly and persistently”… [The Command Post]