Update

Overall I have been pleased with the shaping solution below, but I've made one fairly significant change since first publishing this page. I've switched my DSL Modem to one of the new Westell 6000 series with the turbo tcp mode. In a nutshell this mode does the upstream ACK packet shaping for you, and it does it in the right place (the last hop out of your home network.)

A long while back I posted how I enabled frequency scaling on my p4-ht linux system to keep it cooler by running the 2.8ghz cpu slower when the load was low. It was working ok using the cpuspeed userspace governor, setting a low speed of 1ghz but it was a bit sluggish to kick speeds up or walk them down, and I felt it could be better... anyway, I just redid my kernel to the latest, and finally got the intel ondemand kernel-space governor working. Wow, that thing works really well. I tweaked the controls so it kicks up whenever load goes over 25%.

First gadgeteer post is up @ Streaming Media: Not Just For Computers

Now all I need to do is come up with an endless stream of additional stuff to write about.

In the category of 'why didn't I think of that term' I read about the weisure lifestyle over at CNN this morning.

Why I hates Browser Programming - it's Wicked. Tricksy, False.

There are a few New Media shows I watch regularly. I figured I'd write up some reviews. First installment: The Totally Rad Show

Just a quick note, if you've got shell access to your drupal install, this site provides patch sets so you don't have to do the massive copy dance for every new release.

Reflections on the apparent end of the world, swine flu, climate change, economic collapse and evolution.

We Americans borrow a lot of our (pop?) culture from England. Instead of cloning it, why don't we just give ourselves back?

Depending on how you count, Sunday is either the seventh day, or the first. Whichever day it is, I'm Resting & Worshiping

If it wasn't for the threat of death, I would indeed just sit on my arse every day.

The discipline of fasting prepares us for communion with God and for His service. Does the discipline of blogging accomplish anything?

Part Two in my infinite series on New Media: Geek Brief.

Memorial Day (and let's go ahead and toss the whole weekend in) should be a time to remember those who have paid for our freedom

While waiting for a massive SQL data load I went surfing for the bibbet and ended up at BDS C

Finally, we have glow in the dark monkeys

The past four and a half months have been an interesting journey. It's a journey that is just a few weeks from ending. I can see the shore, but I'm not yet safely in the harbor. I'll blog it all out once this phase is over. Just a wee bit more to go.

Shopping On Black Friday. Why?

Got my Nokia n900 work/dev phone up on T-Mobile 3G/gsm... it's a LOT slower then Sprint's EVDo that I use for my personal phone

I keep hearing THE TIME IS NOW! for 64 bit Linux. Then I try it. Much Sadness Ensues.

It's finally here. It's amazing. It's astounding. It's - uh, pretty much what you would expect

Well, hello there. You may have noticed that the blog content is stale. A post a year just isn't enough, is it?

Why would you want NMEA logs from your iPhone? Well... it's a GPS. And you have it. And sometimes NMEA logs are handy...

Twitter in Drupal. It works. Simple. Well, sorta.

Viewsonic rebranded a first generation Tegra2 Android tablet from Malat (the Zpad, more or less) and slapped a horrible version of Android on it.

Just in case anyone reads this blog (doubtful) but isn't connected to me on LinkedIn, I've recently changed jobs. This follows a pattern for me of a long stint with a company, followed by a brief transitionary company, and then (hopefully, because I'm really liking this new role) a long relationship with a company. Sorry, Nokia, you were my rebound company.

I use Munin to monitor stuff on the home network. Recently, I added a couple monitors - one is a simple web scrape for the new Boxee box that replaced the dedicated HTPC running GBPVR, the other for a Win7 VM (running under Virtual Box on my Ubuntu server, just like the CentOS image that drives this Drupal blog...) needed to run the Boxee Media Manager and also to stream content to the Xbox.

As part of the new reality of working for Microsoft, I'm learning all the Microsoft ways of doing things. I'm in an Operations group doing very large operational things. The intersection of these two lines of thought are PowerShell and Perf Counters.

In the last major chunk of work I did for Nokia, I was working with mongodb (one of the crop of NoSQL document stores popping up like mushrooms in the fall in New England) and, despite some serious warts, I was impressed with the value of an unstructured schemaless data store when working on a fluid prototype. I've been thinking ever since that drupal's data store would be a natural fit for something like mongodb. I wasn't alone.

Another quick Munin monitor script, this time for drupal 6 (since it works on the database itself, YMMV and who knows if it works on drupal7.)

Just finished up two days of finding out what's new with C++ (C++ 11) at GoingNative2012. You should view the rebroadcasts at that link.

Today I updated stuff. For a few hours. Yay, the simple life provided by modern technology.

Part 3 in my ongoing Microsoftification is now complete. I'm using an HTC Titan with Windows Phone 7.5, and not my iPhone.

It's update time again. This time, the Macs got some love.

Error log when iPhone has bad dock?

Another in the endless series of Munin monitors, for the sharing on the internets - Intellinet 450N Wifi Router

The spam hit parade keeps on rolling!

Who knew this was open source?