In a situation where you have to share a single (relatively slow) internet connection with lots of simultaneous users, it’s important to squeeze out every last bit of bandwidth possible, and make every optimization possible. Here are a few “tricks” that are pretty easy to implement, once you’ve got a router with the excellent Tomato [...]
It’s been nearly a year since my last blog entry, partly since Facebook and Twitter have satiated my desire to express myself online, but mostly because I didn’t really have anything important to say… until now. We bought our first iPhone a little over a year ago, for Cathy. She really liked it, and after [...]
This past weekend, I had the privilege of visiting another new country, together with Cathy and Ben. I counted the trip as an opportunity to finally put my old Canon HV20 high-def camcorder to some good use! The combination of in-camera optical image stabilization with the ability of iMovie ’09 to add stabilization during editing [...]
For about a year now, we’ve been having trouble with our otherwise trusty 11-year-old Honda Accord. On very rare occasions, it refused to crank when we tried to start it… It’s got a manual transmission, and it was acting exactly as it would have if we hadn’t stepped on the clutch: dead silence. After waiting [...]
During a recent vacation in Turkey, we saw a quite a few interesting signs and placards. While we were grateful to have things translated into our language, small mistakes were sometimes quite entertaining. Here are a few of our favorites: Okay, so my German (and Cathy’s) isn’t that great, but a little punctuation goes a [...]
Since switching over to Macintosh computers completely over a year ago, I’ve noticed quite a few bugs in released products. Some have been more serious than others, but they’re always frustrating! Here are just a few that have bothered me for quite a while: Nested soft RAID in Disk Utility is glitchy (I’m definitely an [...]
Ever since Dreamhost moved me to a new server without warning, I’ve been trying to get my custom SpamAssassin install working the way it used to. I’ve finally succeeded, but it hasn’t been easy… Because of the new infrastructure plan, new email accounts and shell accounts have been completely isolated. I thought that I wouldn’t [...]
Recently, I had occasion to try to remedy an intermittent internet connection in Turkey… It ended up being more challenging than I had anticipated. There was a LAN with a remotely-located (around 100 meters away) proxy server, and it worked intermittently. A ping to the proxy server showed no problems, unless there was congestion on [...]