Joel Esler

AppleInsider | iOS code suggests Apple could bring iChat to iPhones and iPads

From the "duh" department. Apple would be stupid not to combine iChat, Facetime, and iMessage.
It would be awesome.

I'm basically putting this post up for Google to index it and maybe it'll help some people solve the problem in the future.

PortVar Lookup failed on '$FILE_DATA_PORTS'

If you came to this blog post by searching for the above error, or if you have the above error in Snort, you should read this post on the VRT blog that we wrote.  It'll help solve your problem:

http://vrt-blog.snort.org/2011/11/say-hello-to-file-identify-category.html

There. Check that out.

Yield Thought, I swapped my MacBook for an iPad+Linode:

This guy is nuts. I could never do this. Even though 99% of my work is done via screen @ work as well.
Interesting though.
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