Posted by bronson
Fri, 21 Oct 2005 18:00:00 GMT
Verizon just hooked up our ADSL. It tests at 2.58 Mbit down, 690 Kbit up. Great, except that it's PPPoE and I can't keep a TCP connection up more than about an hour. If you're wondering why every 45 minutes my IRC nick changes bronson -> bronson_ -> bronson__ -> bronson___, it's thanks to grandfathered dialup technologies and lazy telcos. I am constantly SSHing back into remote hosts and recovering edit sessions. Arg!! Hurry up FIOS!.
On the other hand, maybe this will finally get me to set up proper VPNs.
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Posted by bronson
Fri, 21 Oct 2005 17:28:00 GMT
Apparently I just moved into The Cave. I discovered my new apartment had history when I found Nat’s LinuxWorld Expo 2001 badge and some keys in a closet. Good omen or random coincidence? Time will tell. (Links from google.)
Notice how white paint is carelessly slathered over everything? Beautiful mouldings, glass, latches, doors frozen shut, everything is carelessly obliterated with thick generic latex. At one time (the 80s?) this apartment was really nice. It’s tragic.
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Posted by bronson
Fri, 21 Oct 2005 09:33:00 GMT
Though I have admired a few blogs in the past few years I never figured it would be worth the time to set up one of my own*. Most bloggers either take themselves too seriously or just use them to urinate in public. Who am I to think that I could do any better? Besides, who came up with the awful jargon? Blog, blogger, blogosphere… It sounds like the product of an overfed urban marketing department. Count me out.
On the other hand, I do wish that I had a simple record of the past few years of my life. Today’s trivia beocomes tomorrow’s nostalgia. So, damn the social ramificaitons. Today starts the journal. Although, I did carry over one article from my previous blog attemtps.
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* Well, not quite never. I did set up a few blogs in 2004. Started with MovableType but within a few days they changed their licensing terms. Best get off that train before it goes too far. Set up WordPress but jettisoned it when I started playing with the code. Apparently it’s improved a lot since then. Then I tried Blosxom. At first I was amazed… Here is a large and complex system compartmentalized into easy to understand discrete components! Brilliant! Except that trying to integrate the components into a usable, bug-free system was an utter nightmare. I spent two days code monkeying, ironing out stupid conflicts and shortsighted design decisions. When I finally had a system that worked to my satisfaction, performance was abysmal. And there was no way to speed it up without tightly connecting the components together again. Oh well. It makes sense when you think about it. So I shelved blogging for a year and a half.
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Posted by bronson
Fri, 04 Jun 2004 05:53:00 GMT
Back on the Mac
I been too long
I’m glad to be back
Yea, the fingers are loose
with the juice that’s kept me up since noon
I’m just bangin’ through the docs cause it’s the only way
Forget old source cause it got no API
I got mad books, secret hooks
And the whole time I’m wondering why
Cause I’m back
Yes I’m back
Mama I’m back
Well I’m back, back
Well I’m back on the Mac, yes I’m back on the Mac. Ow!
(in honor of AC/DC’s Back in Black)
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