Lawrence "The Dreamer" Chen's Blog

Apparently, they just don't care that they are unreliable....and its not just consumers, it hits KSU. (though it is especially bad because both primary and secondary DNS for the university go down, so not only are on campus sites down...but all name loo… more »

Long after I got broadband service, I continued to have a dialup ISP account. Namely with IBM->ATT Global->Business Net (I think that's how it evolved).... I was principally using the account so that I could access the Internet when traveling, though I… more »

Well, got it set up, and everything seems to be good, once I did a quick reconfigure of some of the hardware. Namely the network adapter. Though I can't really fully test it, because as luck would have it....it is the 6th of the month.....which means m… more »

It is done... My landline number now rings through on my Lingo service. ;D At first there was a problem, because they had somehow gotten the number wrong and had changed one of the '1's to a '2'. Probably an internal note to somebody there tha… more »

Well, I removed some of the wiring nest...and worked in the WRT54GS. Everything went smoothly...the only tweaks afterwards mainly involved getting PRTG and WallWatcher working again. With WallWatcher, the WRT54GS seems to log way more. Or perhaps… more »

Got a letter that RoadRunner speeds in my area have been upgraded. So I rebooted the modem to see...and yes...it does get close to 5MBps/512kbps....up from about 3MBps/512kbps. Though the Poopli freak that I am...it really isn't that much of a boost.… more »

Found out the SPAMAssassin settings are rather limited on my new hosting provider. Having it on results it too many false positives and no options for tweaking/training it. The old provider had a .spamassassin/user_prefs file in the home directory of… more »