I’m watching something scary. It made me understand how people can be indoctrinated into any school of thought. People believe that which incites their emotions must be true. But what if the reason you have the feeling is because those spouting the doctrine are simply tapping into universal fears or desires? You can do...
Facebook: Mass erasing wall posts
I’ve been trying for a while to clear my Facebook wall. The less public information out there, the better. Facebook purposely makes it tedious to remove information from their service because it is in their best interest for it to remain there. I found inspiration from this post on Cynthia Perla’s blog. The post...
Information Overload
I belong in an age when computers were not said to multitask, but rather to timeshare. When the thought of asking a person to multitask would be laughable because people took pride in doing a job and doing it well, something not possible when juggling too much at once. A time before the constant...
OpenSolaris is dead. Long live OpenIndiana?
I have been very gung-ho about OpenSolaris in the past. There are some fantastic technologies in it. Unfortunately, when Oracle bought Sun they essentially killed the openness of OpenSolaris. There are so many who believed in it and the code was mostly open source. Now we have something new. Let’s see how OpenIndiana goes....
HFSC traffic shaping for QOS on DD-WRT: New test
After reading more about HFSC, I modified the original script I posted here. The main changes are: Used a different syntax to specify the different classes. Changed P2P ports to include most high-numbered ports Updated iptables rules to only use destination port, not source port. This is because we are only filtering outgoing packets,...
HFSC traffic shaping for QOS on DD-WRT
The situation: To have a backup to the backups of my computer offsite, I decided to trial BackBlaze. Their willingness to share parts of their storage architecture as well as the way encryption is employed attracted me to the company. The software has its own integrated bandwidth management. With its default settings, BackBlaze did...
Great article about using ZFS for a home NAS
The following post is from someone who has used ZFS on his home fileserver for a year. It is very well-written and I recommend it to anyone considering doing this. http://breden.org.uk/2009/05/01/home-fileserver-a-year-in-zfs/ Click here for a listing of all his posts on ZFS
Article about low CableCARD adoption
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Cable-Industry-Shucks-Guess-Nobody-Wants-CableCARDs-104768
CableCARD problems again after all these years!?
Please note the last update at the bottom of this post. The issue was once again solved by a firmware update from Toshiba. — It took more than a month of back and forth to get the CableCARD working in the first place. Once the CableCARD was set up properly and the firmware for...
Apple has a great sense of humor
Due to a power failure, my NAS device was powered down. When the connection failed, the icon used to represent the NAS changed. Normally it looks like a rack-mounted XServe, but when the connection was lost it showed up as an old-school CRT monitor with a Windows blue screen of death (BSOD). Here’s a...