Disabling Android 4.0 ICS Emergency Alerts

After being woken up a few times by Emergency Alerts on my new Droid Incredible 4g, I finally decided I had to disable these things. After looking online, most of the advice didn't lead me to where I need to go to disabled them.

Instructions:

• Open up your text message app.
• Go to "Menu" -> "Settings". You need to be at the home screen of your text messages. If you are in a particular text message conversation screen, the "Menu" button won't show you the "Settings". 
•  There should be an "Emergency Alerts" category/option, where you can check off the severity of alerts you want to receive. One alert, "Presidential Alert" can't be disabled.

I believe that my text message app is part of HTC Sense 4.0. I can't be certain that other Android phones don't have a slightly different setup. Either way, I'm fairly certain that, in Android Ice Cream Sandwich 4.0, the option to modify/enable/disable "Emergency Alerts" is going to be in your main text message settings.

Workhorse Cisco PIX 515, keeps going and going

I'm not even sure if this is a long time by everyday standards, but figured I would share:



















Total: 3 years and 51 days of uninterrupted uptime for this Cisco PIX 515e, and pushing traffic the whole time.

If it wasn't rebooted to update the OS, it would be easily 5+ years of uptime.


It's doubtful that the longest uptime is an encouraged achievement. There are probably multiple exploits that are going unpatched. 

Unfortunately, we will be retiring this firewall for a new ASA 5510. As much as it's dumb to fix what's not broken, we need to keep up with newer software/security. One of my worries about keeping the PIX is a situation where it's so old it's unsupported or unable to transition the config over to new firewall because so much has changed.