Today marks the end of my time at one company, and the start of my new role as Managing Partner at Milton Security Group LLC. There are only 3 of us now, but should have a couple of openings (hardware engineer and a sales position) hopefully soon.

Milton Security will be concentrating on two paths currently, one is to help customers with their current problems as it relates to security. This is done through assessments and gap analysis. The other path is to learn from all of the customers, and the marketplace, what void there is that needs to be filled with the current types of hardware security devices out there now, and if Milton Security could fill that void. Through ongoing discussions, I hope that we can learn enough about what customers really need, not what others think they need (lots of listening !), and then trying to help fill that real need.

Of course the bread and butter is services. So if you are in need of any help, don't hesitate to click through here -> Network and security services.

It is a very exciting time for us and of course my family. Starting anything from scratch can be quite nerve wracking, and it is a leap, of some sort. The good side is Milton already has contracts (with very wet ink) so we wont be out on the street :-)

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Revenue was huge again, and beat the street, again

OK, here is another way of looking at it:

ATT activations in 30 hours - 146,000

Average number per hour - 4,866.67

Now to find what the REAL number is for 2 FULL days of activations:

4,866.67 x 48 = 233,600

Now, if you really go out on a huge limb and extrapolate, you could say that in the first 5 days ATT would have activated 584,000

hahaha

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Of course you could say that the whole iPhone activation fiasco (some people did not get their iPhone activated until after the first 48 hour period) may have played into this.

This has sent AAPL and ATT stock down a bit in trading today.

My take on this is due to the iPhone activation issue, not all purchased phones were able to be activated. I think we need to wait until Apple reports on their quarter to see how many units they actually sold, since from the Reuters article, ATT only reported activations, not units sold?

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1. EDGE Network - Having migrated from a Nokia e61 unlocked Quad Band with EDGE network to the iPhone, I knew exactly what the EDGE network would be like, so no issues there for sure. It does seem a little snappier than the e61 when downloading web pages, but of course lack of Flash is a large annoyance for sure.

2. Battery - In the past 3 weeks, I have used the phone constantly. I do enjoy having an all in one device for sure, but if you do not have battery charger in your car and in more than one location in your house or office, then you will suck the battery dry if you leave Bluetooth and Wifi on and play videos. I have learned to turn off WiFi when I am not using it, and since I have decided NOT to use Bluetooth for now, I now have Bluetooth off as well. If I am at one of the computers I plug in immediately to top off. I hope the topping off wont degrade things in the long run.

3. Music - The Nokia e61 MP3 player was just "ok" to use, very bad interface and controls, but nonetheless I could play MP3s, and play it through my Bluetooth headset. On the iPhone that has all changed. Of course I own video iPods as well, but having to carry around more devices can be a problem. The only issues with the iPod functionality is that battery drain when watching videos, and the temptation to watch something like South Park or Diggnation while driving (NO I DO NOT DO THIS, I am just saying it is a temptation)

4. Keyboard - I have taken the words of wisdom I heard, just give in to the keyboard. It does a really good job of correcting as you go, and my fingers have gotten accustomed to it. Of course the feel of the e61 keyboard made it easy to do one handed typing, while driving, but I dont do that, as it is unsafe.

5. Mail - this is where things really seem to break down on the iPhone. I have numerous email accounts, and I have found that attachments (.eml or mime) can not be opended. In addition, my VoIP providers send me an .wav file of voicemails, guess what, it cant be opened. Also, the interface to get to emails is tedious at best. Multiple clicks to get to mail in the inbox, not good. Mail should work as close as possible to Mail.app There should be a unified Inbox. Of course the e61 had Blackberry service and multiple POP accounts on it, and there was a different email box for each.

6. "Wow is that an iPhone?" - OK I never thought this was true, but in the past few days it seems every time I use the phone, or place it on a table at a meeting, I get the "wow is that an iPhone, can I see it?"

So, in conclusion, I think this was a great marriage between the iPhone and me. Of course like all marriages there will be disagreements on how to accomplish things, but things should be ok. Of course I think this is a marriage of convenience mostly for now, until iPhone 2.0 will come out and I have to divorce iPhone 1.0, but we will have a great time until then, and have some fond memories to share.

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Its has been a busy couple of weeks for sure. With my work coming to a close at my current place, and the travelling I had done, and all of the items on the "Honey - do" list being checked off, (family still in Europe until mid August) I have kept pretty busy. A friend came up last weekend and helped put in some flooring with me for one of my daughters rooms, and a attic fan (it does get hot in the OC ! ) I am planning on going to DEFCON again this year, so I am looking for a place to stay that is reasonably priced and not a scary place to sleep in.

Today is the day I rearrange the home office (happens every three months). Organizing all of the equipment, books, paperwork, etc can be a chore to say the least. I need like another 11x11 room ...hmmm something to think about I guess.

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The manager explained that even though I had Pro Care (very useful) there was about 6 systems in front of me, with Pro Care, that needed to be worked on, and they were backed up due to the iPhone release (huh?, technicians who repair computers work the floor selling???)

The manager said she would call me on Sunday (today) to give me an update. Its now 8:00pm, and no phone call. I see the store really lives up to its promises so far....

I am hoping that they call tomorrow, as I need the system before Tuesday.

(as an aside, Secure Shell (SSH) is used to login interactively to a remote system. WebShell, a small python application, is run on the system you want to SSH into.)

Following the instructions on the Google Code page for web-shell, modifying apache to accept HTTPS, and modifying the python file to accept requests from hosts other than localhost (so a real IP of the local Mac the script is running on) I was able to attach via EDGE network to a MacBook Pro (behind a firewall) and gain access to a SSH session. From there I was able to run lynx.

Next steps for me, irc in the ssh session......

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