• Watching the original BBC Hitchhiker’s Guide series. Still amusing after all these years, and IMHO better than the movie. #

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• Looks like my WaMu card will be turning into a Chase card… #

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• goosh.org - the unofficial google shell.
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• Got another Sun (a slightly better one) for near free at the MIT flea, plus a standby VHF HT and a replacement multimeter. #

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• Debian 4.0 (Etch) LDAP Server « Linux Admininstration
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• Damn, it is COLD outside! #

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• The One Minute Case for Stock Shorting | The One Minute Case
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• BelmontNet is up and running with NFSv4 (though not over IPv6 yet). #

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• Linux Kernel ata Wiki
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• A new record volume day at work (previous record set in January). #

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• Fed leaves rates unchanged. The market goes wild! #

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• PySmell v0.5 released : orestis.gr
  PySmell is a Python introspective autocompleter for vim.
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• radio support for Reach the Beach relay. #

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• Kupel's Bagel - Brookline, MA 02445
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• We have a new modest 720p HDTV and mackerel is hooked up again. It looks so much nicer than analog… #

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• LHC turned on. World still here. Congratulations CERN for finishing the project. #

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Our home network is a bit complicated, since I’m a dork and I like networks. We have Verizon FiOS, Verizons Fiber To The Home network. We get 20Mbit down, 5Mbit up which is a lot by United States standards (if an embarrassment compared to some countries).

I’ve converted the supplied Verizon Actiontec NAT router into a bridge so that I can use anchovy, an old Dual Celeron 400MHz system. Anchovy is running Debian Etch. I have anchovy configured with DNS, NAT routing, QoS, firewalling, DHCP, and an IPv6 tunnel via SixXS.

Earlier today I grabbed some Ubuntu ISO images, and some other Linux rescue ISO images. This meant 7 TCP streams going at full tilt simultaneously, downloading to saturate the 20Mbit line rate. I checked the load on anchovy while this was happening:

Note the large amount of time spent in SoftIRQ, indicating heavy networking processing (in the kernel). The interrupt count remained relatively constant. Perhaps NAPI and/or interrupt mitigation was active?

Here is a picture of our “core switches” :)

Crooked lobbyist Jack Abramoff has been sentenced to 4 years in prison, 9 months longer than federal prosecutors had sought. Abramoff was at the center of extensive corruption in congress, with many nebulous ties to the Bush administration (and Karl Rove). The end result of the Abramoff investigation was the conviction of 10 officials, including a Republican member of congress.

Good to see the Judge recognized the gravity of Abramoff’s crimes. I’m still waiting for the conclusion of the U.S. Attorney firing investigation…

• Piwik - Web analytics - Open source
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