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...
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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...
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...
JohnChow.com: The Internet’s Biggest Google Whores
JohnChow.com: The Internet’s Biggest Google Whores: The following is a list of the Internet’s eight biggest Google AdSense publishers. The information was compiled from interviews and articles found on the Internet. Whenever possible, I list the source of the information. All I can say is “WOW.” It takes a lot of pageviews to earn...
BroadbandReports.com: 25 Cents to Stream a DVD Quality Film – 80 Cents for HD, a nickel for iPod TV…
From BroadbandReports.com: 25 Cents to Stream a DVD Quality Film – 80 Cents for HD, a nickel for iPod TV…: Dave Burstein crunches the numbers behind offering video via broadband and concludes that it costs a quarter to stream a DVD quality movie, 80 cents for an HD film, or a nickel for iPod...
CNET News.com: Will Vista stall Net traffic
CNet News.com reports: Vista will also support the current IPv4. The side effect, according to Mockapetris, is that a Vista PC will make two DNS requests, one for each IP version, instead of just one. “It is going to try a DNS lookup for the IPv6 address and then a DNS lookup for the...
Survived a digging!
This site got dugg yesterday in response to my post about the State of Florida’s People First job portal shutting out alternate browsers. The post rose to the front page of Digg and remained there for several hours. It continued to be included in the rss feed after it was no longer on the...
Email to state – PeopleFirst@dms.myflorida.com
I followed the the advice of a user of digg, Sillywampa, on Digg’s entry about my earlier post on Florida’s People First Job Portal and emailled PeopleFirst@dms.myflorida.com about this issue. Here is what I wrote:
State of Florida job portal shuts out alternative browsers
Update: I wrote a post about an email I sent to the State of Florida and the response I received. This was suggested by Sillywampa on Digg. Thanks Sillywampa for the email address. The State of Florida’s People First job portal is still running an outdated script that locks out users of alternative browsers...