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4:43pm |
Posted a tweet on Twitter.
Just when I had given up on Tom Cruise, he goes and does his part in Tropic Thunder; and TOTALLY REDEEMS HIMSELF!!
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Good show. Barney would be “the man” if it weren’t for the whole Doogie Howser thing. As it stands, he’s just “a man”…..that is awesome.
Exhibit A:
Exhibit B:
Congratulations to Sean and Molly on there recent wedding. It was an absolute blast, and I’m glad I could be a part of it.The Lobster Roll was an awesome time, and true to its name had the largest lobster roll I’ve ever seen. I have no idea how I ate it all. The wedding day was the perfect September day, couldn’t have asked for more. The highlight of the day/night, however, may have been the Lost Dog firetruck ride. As the St. Croix saying goes, “Some know, some don’t”.Have a look at some pictures from the Bryant camera:http://picasaweb.google.com/rossco23
Gave my home network some TLC, that’s what. During my “upgrade”, I noticed that Comcast upgraded my account. Nice. Uploading at a steady 300Kb/s vs. the 90Kb/s I was getting previously. And that’s after upgrading my account to the highest residential level possible, I was getting a measly 50Kb/s upload before that. Check out the new dd-wrt bandwidth monitor which monitors your LAN, WAN, and Wireless network traffic, the WAN being the best part, monitoring your entire network’s incoming and outgoing traffic is not easy to do. Luckily, with dd-wrt, my $60 router has been “turned into a $600 router”.
Next step? Well, have you ever let Bittorrent have it’s way with your bandwidth? If you have, then you would have lost the ability to get to any website, even google, because it would eat up all available bandwidth. Solution? Limit your upload to some stupid low number so that you don’t get close to your max upload and cripple your internet connection. New solution? QoS (Quality of Service). This lets your router handle bandwidth distribution. You can tell it to allow bittorrent to use up as much bandwidth as it wants…unless any other program wants to do anything. See below:
My rules are simple. Bittorrent is at the bottom of the totem pole. It can go crazy, but if anything else asks for a connection, it has higher priority. The 4 express rules are at the top of the pole, sharing 1st priority, while all other traffic (internet etc) still gets priority over bittorent but not higher than the other 4 services.
What else? Well, my Tivo has always limited my wireless security. If you’ve ever come to my house, you’ve either had to connect to a hidden ssid, type in a long ass wep key, or I would drop the security all together until you left because my Tivo could only do crappy WEP security. Well now I can do both. With dd-wrt I set up a virtual wireless connection. My main wireless has a nice wpa2 key while my Tivo connects to a hidden ssid with a crappy wep key. I could have even unbridged the virtual wireless as to separate it from my private LAN and just give it internet access for downloaded guide info, but I needed it to have access to my server for transferring shows.
Gotta say. It’s all running like a well oiled machine. Very happy. Thanks dd-wrt and linux based Linksys routers J Yeah Celts, nice work.
I’m no longer allowed to use the name I’ve coined for him, but if you’ve seen Chappelle’s Show, you could take a few stabs at. I think it has a nice ring to it. “Show us your face!”
Anyways, he’s Heather’s new beagle, and his name is Royce. He doesn’t realize it yet, but he’s Sampson’s new best friend.
http://picasaweb.google.com/rossco23/SampsonAndRoyce/
About 5-6 months deep, starting to fill up some of that skin. Check it.
http://picasaweb.google.com/rossco23/SampsonApril/
Just some pictures of Sampson’s trip to Maine and back home a couple weeks later.
