Specifically, this is about the bumper they are selling as a “case”. It’s ok, seems adequate assuming the glass front and back are tough enough. Time will tell there.

However, the little slot that’s on the bottom of the bumper that let’s the iPhone dock cable hook to the phone isn’t quite big enough to work with older iPod/iPhone cables or aftermarket cables. I could understand aftermarket incompatibility, but its not even compatible with older Apple cables. The picture shows a Belkin cable, but I’ve got this issue at home too with an Apple cable.

I think the “fix” is to cut the little lip out of the bumper. I’ll do that here in a bit assuming my pocket knife is sharp enough.

So, I got my iPhone 4 yesterday. I stood in line with my buddy Jason at the Valley Fair mall. I was impressed by the Cheesecake Factory, Haagen-Daas, and Starbucks delivering food and drink to folks in line, gratis. Nice touch, Apple.

Anyway, the phone itself is pretty darn nice. I’ve made a couple of FaceTime calls so far and it is pretty “magical” (Christ, I just used that word) but I’m on the fence as to its actual utility. We’ll see.

I’ll post more things… tips, tricks, gripes, as I come up with them.

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Hopefully there’s nothing to see here (in terms of things breaking or anything). I’m sure someone will let me know if the upgrade has gone horribly awry.

OK, so we’ve got an ASA 5510 that’s simply acting as a VPN endpoint. Today, I’ve got a need to go ahead and poke at the configuration of it. So I log into the thing… and the Java-based ADSM administration tool just sits and hangs. OK, I figure I’m up against a Linux incompatibility so I jump over to my Mac. Nope, same deal - the ADSM tool downloads some code then sits and spins with an hourglass.

Hm. Well, I’m not defeated that easily. I reach under my desk and pull out my seldom-used Windows laptop, fire it up, and try logging into the firewall.. and get the same thing. I’ve seen this kind of junk happen before with Java Webstart enabled applications, so I upgraded the JRE on the laptop. Nope, still broken. Ok, let’s downgrade - so I grab 1.6.0u7 and put it on the laptop. Nope, still broken.

WTF. Now I begin googling, and I find bug CSCsr89144 – Cisco ADSM 6.1(3) fails to load on an ASA with uptime> 1 year. Wow. This is just massive fail. Fail of the first degree. A nice, first class, all expense paid trip on the fail boat.

I don’t really care TOO much as this is just a VPN endpoint and I can run down to the datacenter and kick this at my leisure, but my point is for the amount of money that is shelled out for Cisco gear, I shouldn’t HAVE TO.

It used to be Microsoft Windows was my nemesis, not because they’re evil or any of that religious claptrap, but because Windows had stolen more of my free time than anything else. Cisco has taken second place in this race, and is rapidly gaining on Microsoft.

Lame.