captbrando's log – Page 6 – confessions and musings of a road warrior security consultant

Since I know you are all DYING to know, you folks may have noticed the weather station forgetting to transmit and having flat lines in the trends (It’s FLATLINING!! *ahem*). Anyway…. Those sensors are now four years old, and apparently, electronic equipment that is exposed to the elements can sometimes wear out. After calling Davis,…

April 17, 2009

Um, wow…

April 14, 2009

Pretty Texas sunset!

April 10, 2009

Snow?? Really?!?

April 9, 2009

Meet Lola!

April 8, 2009

This place kicks ass!

April 8, 2009

Plastic junk

April 7, 2009

Not too shabby!

April 5, 2009

AIF, 73.2 hours (1.3 hours last flight)

Today’s flight was with Cayce! We tried to do a flight a few weeks ago, but Texas weather foiled us. This time of year is hard to fly VFR simply because the weather changes on a dime. More motivation to get my instrument rating… maybe this year. Anyway, because of the high winds, I opted…

April 5, 2009

Another Debian Etch to Lenny gotcha…

Shut down Apache or any client that is logged into a postgresql database BEFORE you run it if you are upgrading from 7.4 to 8.3. Otherwise, you will need to restore your DB from a previous backup. So far, my restore seems to be working just fine.

April 3, 2009

Crosswind

March 26, 2009

Up!

March 26, 2009

Pretty dinner!

March 25, 2009

Hope this does not delay us!

March 25, 2009

Horray for Chicago Yellow Cab!

I’ve been spending a lot of time in Chicago this year. I love the city, but freaking hate the cold. I’ve broken my rule twice already, and am preparing to fracture it a third time this week ((The rule is that I do not travel north of the Mason-Dixon line between November and March)). Regardless,…

March 24, 2009