I am amazed by how much it helps to have a pad of paper next to me while reading Great Expectations for Brit Lit.
Month: February 2009
Justice’s Birthday
Happy birthday, Justice!
World of Goo Linux!
The World of Goo Linux version is released! The deb is for i386, but the tar.gz works fine for me. I probably have some 32-bit libraries installed for Wine or something. The music seemed slowed down on one level, but that could be a problem on my end.
Wired!
No more wireless! I finally managed to crimp an end on the cable that we pulled up through a crack in the floorboards inside the wall of a closet. My hands were shaking because I was too lazy to eat enough today and I had Pepsi, which had caffine. I think I’ll stay away from Pepsi now. The baseboard had been taken off from earlier. I’m now connected at gigabit speeds, although from what I’ve read (in the rant linked to below) when I’m running Windows I won’t be able to saturate that link. 🙁 Everything seems faster now. ‘Tis awesome. ^^
Comcast
They’re at it again. This time, there’s a way to slip under the net, though. Comcast reduces your packet priority if you exceed 70% of your up or down pipe for more than 15 minutes. I think my up pipe is about 52 KB/s, but just to be safe I set my BitTorrent upload limit to 33 KB/s, less than 70% of that, and 0.6 KB/s less than 70% of the slowest upload pipe listed on their website. I’m glad that they now have concrete policies, and I’m happy that they’re no longer messing with BitTorrent directly, but I’m disappointed because I don’t see a meter anywhere so I can know how close I am to the dreaded 250 GB/month quota. I have no clue how much bandwidth I use.
I found this awesome rant on Microsoft’s almost criminal business practices and the buggy, bloated thing they call an operating system. There are some pretty ugly coding practices in there.