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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

Wonder if the people at Xantrex or Amazon.com are wondering what's with all the PowerSource 400s I've been buying? The latest acquisition brings the total to 5. With the latest being the 3rd unit in one room. Somewhere in a past shuffle/outage...I… more »

Was going through my photo collection and saw that it had been over two years since I last snapped a shot of "My Mess". So, here's what it looks like today: As you an see there are still empty spots in my setup, some more obvious than others. The… more »

Today, I finally pulled the trigger again....and canceled my home phone service. But, I'm keeping DSL.Originally, when I first moved to Manhattan, KS there were issues on whether or not I could get a local number from a VoIP provider. And, I was in… more »

Yeah, NetFlix asked me about this. :cool:I was looking around on NetFlix website trying to figure out how to report video problems of instant viewed material. But, couldn't find anything.At one point during the play back the video broke up and w… more »

Well, here I am sitting in the dark....had to make some reconfigurations of stuff so I can still be online for the moment....But, this is like the 3 significant outage in the last couple of weeks. Didn't I get a letter earlier this year saying that… more »

While at work this morning, I tried to ssh into 'box'....mainly to make it see the changed ssh host keys. But, turned out it was a test to see that it was working correctly.I couldn't get to the second ip on 'box'. All my linux servers have 2 IPs,… more »

I'm can't think any more....don't know what's missing that I didn't intend to leave off.Sure there's stuff that I wouldn't mind having back, and stuff that isn't readily available for the distro I'm using...namely no mondorescue for 9.04 yet. I also… more »