Lawrence "The Dreamer" Chen's Blog

Well, this is interesting....The best I was getting after the latest Cox speed upgrade was:But, with Wondershaper(QoS) turned off, I'm now getting speeds like these:It might be acceptable to stay with my current set up, rather tha… more »

Last weekend, while checking my usual daily websites....I came across mention of a gadget on gdgt called WakeMate. I have been toying with the idea of getting one of these gadgets for years, decades? Definitely well before I learned of my sleep disorde… more »

I had been thinking of getting one of these units for a while, though wondering if I could use just as an AP.Meanwhile, Cox has been improving its speed...but I wasn't seeing the improvement. Could see the upstream improvement, but not so much with… more »

Decided to go ahead and upgrade to 3.3.3, even though the dashboard said I was already running the latest version at 3.3.2. more »

wonder if I'll continue and upgrade to 3.3.3 .... more »

In a somewhat planned and somewhat impulse move, I have acquired another scanner. A Fujitsu ScanSnap S300. Noting that I've mentioned that I already own a ScanSnap S300M, it may seem odd...though its more of an annoyance. That I need to buy the same s… more »

box is such an important server to my home network, while the last time it failed wasn't due to drive failure...there had been times in its past where it was. And, since I was playing around with RAID a lot on orac, I decided that it was probably time… more »

I haven't used my AppleTV in a while, but I've been meaning to sit down and use it....and I sense with the coming holidays that I might have time to sit down and do some marathon watching of stuff. So, I've been meaning to let the AppleTV upgrade to t… more »

I only needed to scan one photo, and while I do have a Fujitsu ScanSnap 300M somewhere....its Mac only, and I don't own a Mac. I had acquired that scanner during Black Friday last year, not realizing that it was Mac only. It won't even work on Linux.… more »

I finally went to my first Doctor Who Convention....and I got a lot more out of it than I thought I would. Like I got a picture of me with Yee Jee Tso, Paul McGann, and Daphne Ashbrook: more »

Found another problem with my karmic upgrade of 'box'. The clocks on everything were starting to drift....well 'box' is my NTP server. I check the ntp.conf, and it was still correct. Then I realized ntp started while bind wasn't....so it omitted a t… more »

With a couple hours to kill this morning, I decided to see about upgrading 'box' to karmic. Ideally it should've been LTS, but that's another story.... It gave an estimate of one hour to download. Well, it ended up taking those couple of hours. And… more »