Well all my friends are doing it, I might as well jump in. I have to admit the results surprised me. I was experimenting with snmpwalk recently and this has skewed my results terribly. On my daily use laptop: polycarb:~ alan$ uname -a ; history|awk ‘{a[$2]++} END{for(i in a){printf “%5d\t%s \n”,a[i],i}}’|sort -rn|head Darwin polycarb.local 9.2.2 …
Monthly Archive: April 2008
Apr
25
Apr
20
Teledyne Continental Slapped with Damages
Thanks to a tickling from a co-worker, I noticed that Philip Greenspun has posted a quick note about the Teledyne Continental (TCM/TDY) judgement and award. As a General Aviation flyer, this is really disturbing. People really need to start taking responsibility for their actions and the courts need to back that stance. This is just …
Apr
14
Swiss Interface Syndrome
Swiss Interface Syndrome: John Gruber over at Daring Fireball pointed me at Sebastian de With’s outstanding gripe on interface design and rendering type on monitors in small pixel-sizes. This is not an easy problem to solve and you can really, truly, do a miserable job of it. I think that not enough people understand fonts …
Apr
13
More local riding.
I’ve been looking at a mountain bike for a few weeks, mostly just kicking tires in the shop, but today I took one out on a ride, almost the same ride we did last week (which is good for comparison). Last week I rode a friend’s Specialized S-Works Elite (from 2005) and this week I …
Apr
09
False Finishes & Veneers
On my commute into the office this morning, I passed an vehicle that was being used by a business that, according to the sign on the vehicle, offered “False Finishes, Faux Granite & Veneers”. Ostensibly for your kitchen countertops. The irony was that the vehicle was an H3. Something of a veneer or faux-finish itself. …
Apr
06
DSL Upgrade Completed in Record Time
Unlike my initial service order request, AT&T seems to have had no trouble ‘upgrading’ my service. I just ran a test today and things appear to be faster already. They told me I would likely have to wait 2 weeks. vs the old results which were: This appears to be a 2x increase (approximately) for …
Apr
06
Unpowered Ride.
I managed to finally get out around town and do some mountain bike riding. Cullen was kind enough to loan me a bike, and his good one at that. We didn’t set any speed records and stopping for a snack on the way home wasn’t exactly hard-core, but it was great to get our and …
Apr
04
Some stats on some friends.
A selection of stats on some friends that viewed a thingy I sent around. Certainly not representative of the web at large. I for one, am shocked at the lack of Linux.
Apr
02
DSL Speeds in Santa Cruz
When I first arrived, AT&T insisted that they could get me their “Elite” package, which claimed some certain download speed (6Mbps IIRC). When I ordered it I was downgraded to the “Pro” package at a mere 3Mbps maximum download rate. The reasoning AT&T gave me for this (orginally) was my distance from the CO. I …