IT Legends - Tech in Connecticut

At Nutmeg Consulting corporate headquarters (haha, that makes me laugh - I don’t know entirely why), when we hooked ourselves up to Comcast Internet service for business, we decided we wanted to manage our own firewall and routing services. So we disabled all of the features on the modem Comcast provided for us and installed a Sonicwall TZ170W. When we decided we wanted a VPN, we upgraded to the Enhanced OS for the Sonicwall so that we could use L2TP/IPSec tunnels for our VPN on Windows desktops without having to install the Sonicwall Global VPN Client. Well the Sonicwall has been restarting itself multiple times a day. We have called Sonicwall tech support and we have our support incident elevated all the way to level 3. However, 3 months later, the damn thing still reboots itself all the time and its “still at level 3 tech support”. I’m not happy with the level of service here. (more…)

I bought a new bicycle on Saturday. I haven’t owned a bike in about 14 years. The last one I owned was stolen from the campus at University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee. I lived there for a brief period of time and didn’t lock up my bike when I went into the college to borrow a computer. A friend allowed me to use her login to use the computers in the lab, and the university allowed anyone to walk in and use the lab 24 hours a day - no monitoring. Security issue there aside, I should have locked the bike but I’d lost my lock chain somewhere in my travels. (more…)