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My name is Karyl F. Stein and this is my website--a place to collect artifacts related to my family and interests. Family and friends may enjoy the journal entries. Perhaps some will wonder how I prepared a certain meal and look up the recipe. Searches for technical setup or configuration help may lead to one of my articles. Others may wonder how they got to this site and quickly run away! Whatever your reason for being here you are welcome and I hope that you find something interesting or useful within these pages.

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Category: Home Network

A naming convention is a way to give names to devices on a network so they are descriptive or easier to type into a connection string. In college I was a network administrator for the "spirits" lab where the various terminals had names like "vodka", "rum", etc. I did not start this, but did later modified it in another environment so that certain types of alcoholic beverages referred to a certain type of item e.g. switches were beers, servers were wines, etc.

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Category: Android

I recently bought a car with Android Auto. While the car's native infotainment system was pretty good and integrated so you could do things like change audio settings and channels with voice commands, it was restrictive in what you could say to it and you could not send text messages via voice. One thing that I wanted to be able to do is not only hear the messages read back to me, (which it did fine), but also reply or generate a new text message, (which it did not do). So I enabled Android Auto and thought things would be good. However, as soon as I asked Google to text someone, it responded that I needed to enable more access.

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Category: Poetry / Lyrics

This parody is based on the top-polling 2016 Presidential candidates at the time of writing.

(To the tune of "We Will Rock You" by Queen)

Trump Trump, Jeb!  (Replaces foot stomp and hand clap rhythm)
Trump Trump, Jeb!

Neurosurgeon Doctor
   Benjamin Carson,
Carly Fio-ri-na and Ted Cruz

You got Mike Huck-a-bee
   And Rick Santorum
Telling Chris Christie to lay off the Krispy Kremes!

Singin’

We want we want your vote!
We want we want your vote!

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Category: Poetry / Lyrics

This parody was written for one of our team members at work when she left the company leaving behind some ongoing projects. It contains references to projects and vendors specific to our job, so some things may not make sense.

(To the tune of “99 Problems” by Jay-Z)

If you’re having time problems I feel bad for you son;
I got 99 problems, but K2 ain’t one.

I got…the QC control on the mouse patrol--
Those that wanna make sure the defect’s closed.
Testers cryin’ out that the software blows.
I’m IT stupid what type of facts are those?

Sections

Home - Pretty much everything put on the site ends up here. If you want a full feed of all sections subscribe to this.

Cooking - Recipes plus ramblings about techniques, tools and more may be found here.

Technology - Information about the technology I use and how I use it.

Writing - Stuff that comes out of my mind and ends up on (digital) paper.

Résumé - I am not currently looking to switch jobs.

Family Site - Links to family photos and videos and more.

Contact - Click on "Contact Form" to send me an email.

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