Jason Hancock

I can’t remember the last time I went to the theaters and saw two movies in one weekend….let alone three movies in one weekend. It all started innocently enough Friday night. Laura and I went to see Get Smart. It was pretty funny. I’m not the biggest Steve Carell fan and Laura enjoyed the movie more than I did, but I still found it funny at parts. The next morning, we went to the studio screening of Wall-E.

What a show! Amazing! The sound quality of the hollywood bowl was awesome. We were in section F3 and it was great. Sure, we could have been closer, but the show was not bad at all from where we were. Totally worth the $55 for the tickets. I think they played every song off Core. I will be going back next time they come to town.

This last weekend, I had the opportunity to volunteer as a photographer for the Jonathan Jacques torch run. It was a great time. I took close to 500 pictures. I did notice that it felt like I was using the maximum focal length on my lens quite a bit. The only lens that I currently own is an 18-135mm lens that came with my D80 kit. I took a look at Nikon’s site to see what lenses they have available.

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After getting a basic “hello world” SNMP example to work, I set out to test this method of data transfer against two others…. writing a custom client/server app and doing wgets against an apache web server. The goal here is to be able to quickly transfer about 10 lines of text from one machine(the remote hosts) to another machine(my monitoring machine on an administrative network) in a manner that is efficient.

At work, we recently hit a minor road block in one of our monitoring applications and decided that we needed to convert some stuff to transfer data via SNMP versus other methods. I’m going to give an outline here of what I had to do to set up a simple “hello world” type query. First off, crack open /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf and add the following line to the bottom of the file:

Laura scored us some tickets to go see the Stone Temple Pilots at the Hollywood Bowl in June. STP was one of those bands that was all but gone by the time I was old enough to go see shows. The first CD I ever owned was a copy of Purple

I was at home the other night thinking about nothing in general and it hit me. I’ve never played Dungeons and Dragons. In fact, I had no idea how to play, what it takes to play, or anything. Working in a video game studio, I imagined that there were people I worked with that would play if I somehow could get a game together. I shared my desire to play with a coworker and it was all over after that.

Best concert ever! What an absolutely incredible show. Serj Tankian was good too. What a great night!

I’m a fan of tower defense games. A buddy of mine turned me on to them back in college. I’ve been playing one now for a while. Desktop Tower Defense Squirt towers are awesome!