November 2009
34 posts
Tracking Routed Connections →
Netstat is great for looking at connections between a given local machine and remote machines, but about connections that a machine is acting as a router for, as in the case of a Linux box running Netfilter/IPTables? The Perl script linked does just that, by parsing /proc/net/ip_conntrack into an easily readable form, complete with reverse lookups on IP addresses.
I had posted this earlier with a...
Home Routers with Faster Internet Connections →
One of the more interesting Ask Slashdot questions I’ve seen in a while. The Linksys routers are pretty good, especially loaded up with DD-WRT, but I’ve found they still aren’t quite as capable as an old Linux box loaded up with NICs. I ran Linksys routers with DD-WRT at each of my college apartments, and they all needed to be reset on occasion, and I’m sure they...
Vehicle Popularity
It seems as though every time I head to my local auto parts store, they’re always out of oil filters for the four cylinder Subaru lineup, specifically the Purolator ones. Coincidentally, there are tons of WRXs on the road, driven by young kids finding that the cars are reasonably affordable and easy to extract plenty of power and speed out of. Unfortunately for me, and quite unlike the...
It Goes Both Ways
goldenrat1o:
sds:
marco:
Cynical-C Blog: (via Paul Scheer) > On November 20, 2009 anytime in 2008, at a Borders bookstore in Columbus, Ohio, Sarah Palin Barack Obama held a book signing event in support of “Going Rogue” his memoir. Palin’s Obama’s supporters wanted her him to run for the presidency, but they weren’t exactly sure what she’d he’d do as president. Short on specifics, most of...
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Ars Technica Review of VMWare Fusion 3 →
Pretty good review of Fusion 3, as anyone would expect, coming from Ars Technica. I don’t see any terribly compelling reason for me to upgrade from version 2, except for this:
Some minor new things in version 3 include the ability to select a specific network adapter for bridged networking (with optional IPv6), and the ability to finally override the Ethernet MAC address of the virtual...
Chairman Mao's Underground City →
goldenrat1o:
piquant:
buyhercandy:
In 1969, Chairman Mao commanded the construction of a second Beijing beneath the surface of the original city, designed to accommodate all six million of its then inhabitants, so that if nuclear war did kick off, folk would still have somewhere to hang out and play Mah Jong while the rest of us burnt to death in a shower of atomic rain. War never came, but...
“I took a similar route and convinced my father, mother and both my brothers to...”
– IrrepressibleMonkey on Slashdot. Words of wisdom, Lloyd. Words of wisdom…
Drooling Over Remus →
If you’ve read Slashdot sometime in the past few hours, you’ve probably seen this. Outside of system admin types, it probably interests no one. For system admins, this is awesome, awesome, awesome. Imagine being able to failover services instantly, even if that service has no mechanism for replication or failover, with all state data maintained perfectly. It’s one of those things...
Have Your Parents Joined Facebook Yet? →
Instant follow. I barely touch Facebook nowadays, and my parents never will, but that doesn’t mean I can’t enjoy the experience vicariously…
237 members of congress (44 percent) are... →
jayparkinsonmd:
thedailywhat:
By comparison, only 1 percent of Americans are millionaires.
And the number of plutocrats could be higher still:
One caveat on those numbers: Federal financial disclosure laws don’t require members to list the value of their personal residences. That information could alter the net worth picture for many lawmakers.
So much for the whole “of the...
an0n1cal:
jasencomstock:
cyn1cal:
jasencomstock:
cyn1cal:
Mandatory health insurance. What a crock. It should be an option, a right. Not a mandate.
Why shouldn’t it be a mandate? If you can’t guarantee that you won’t be going to a hospital for emergency care and can’t afford it, or if you can’t guarantee that you won’t declare bankruptcy because of your health care bills and fuck over...
How Google Uses Linux
This is a really interesting article about, well, how Google uses the Linux kernel, and how they adapt it to their highly-demanding (and specific) needs. From the article:
Mike started the talk by giving the developers a good laugh: it seems that Google manages its kernel code with Perforce. He apologized for that. There is a single tree that all developers commit to. About every 17 months,...
More CDMA iPhone Rumors →
For the record, I don’t buy this at all. And I can’t imagine that anyone who makes an Android headset for Verizon or Sprint (let alone Palm) is all that thrilled about the prospect of the iPhone possibly stealing the premier phone spot on either decent US carrier. I say “possibly stealing” because there is a lot of time between now and the third quarter of 2010, and given...
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Go Wired →
No matter how well wireless works for most people today, the shortcomings of wireless will become more and more apparent in the coming years as bandwidth needs within a home become greater and greater. Streaming multiple HD feeds, audio feeds, downloading of movies, music, and games, it’ll all add up, and wireless simply won’t be able to cope.
If you’re building a new house,...
Apple Confidential
With Apple’s success over the past few years and the ever-increasing number of posts related to Apple on Tumblr, it amazes me that more people haven’t come across this book, by Owen Linzmayer. In my opinion, Apple has probably the most fascinating history out of any company in the past fifty years, and this book covers so much of it. Some of the more interesting pieces that...
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Skyfire Is Awesome
While I still maintain that more web sites need mobile-specific versions, there remain plenty of web sites I’d like to use while mobile that just aren’t and never will be designed for mobile devices. I thought Mobile Safari (and other WebKit browsers) were the best for browsing on smartphones, but I’m not so sure anymore. I downloaded Skyfire a month or two ago, but didn’t...
Is it the Phone or the Network? →
caseyliss:
Marco talks about the iPhone/Verizon debate:
I was a loyal Verizon customer before moving to the iPhone in late 2007. I frequently travel to the fringes of cellular reception areas, including many areas with zero coverage from any carrier. I’ve found: AT&T isn’t as bad as many people think, and Verizon isn’t as good as many people think.
I particularly liked this point, that...
Reading Docs == Not Waking Up Early On Sundays
So, a little over a week ago, I upgraded from CentOS 5.3 to CentOS 5.4 on two of my home servers, one of which has a simple RAID1 array with two 1 TB drives. On the server lacking RAID, the upgrade went very smoothly, with no complications whatsoever. On the server with RAID, however, I saw a few issues.
Last Sunday, I woke up to the sound of my cell phone alerting me to issues with the RAID...
Magic Mouse Review
ben:
The only reasons you shouldn’t get this mouse are if you are prone to hand camps or other hand and joint issues and/or you need auxiliary buttons for certain apps (usually CAD people like to have a middle click).
This is a great, simple mouse. Left Click and Right Click. Fantastic scrolling (Apple really knows how to do momentum scrolling right, after using the Wacom Bamboo touch I know...
