November 2005 Archives
Have you ever wanted to find out what speed/duplex your network card negotiated to? mii-tool is the tool for you.
List NIC speed and configuration: mii-tool eth0: negotiated 100baseTx-FD flow-control, link ok Verbose mode: mii-tool -v eth0: negotiated 100baseTx-FD flow-control, link ok product info: Intel 82555 rev 4 basic mode: autonegotiation enabled basic status: autonegotiation complete, link ok capabilities: 100baseTx-FD 100baseTx-HD 10baseT-FD 10baseT-HD advertising: 100baseTx-FD 100baseTx-HD 10baseT-FD 10baseT-HD flow-control link partner: 100baseTx-FD 100baseTx-HD 10baseT-FD 10baseT-HD flow-controlCheck out YoLinux Tutorial - Linux Networking for more great tools.
Wow - I just had one of the most amazing conversations this morning with Internap this morning. I have been thinking about paying the crazy fee to run Internap bandwidth for my VoIP service (so that way I don't have to worry or be responsible for the connectivity - VoIP is extremely finicky about paketloss and jitter and with Level3's madness in LA lately I don't want to deal with it). Anyways after speaking with the Sales Rep this morning it comes out that they do not have access/facilities in either of the two major NAPs in Los Angeles - no One Wilshire, no Equinix. Why in gods name would you be selling bandwidth in this City and not be in these facilities? It just doesn't make any sense.
Yes that's right. I am experimenting with Internet Explorer again. I have been using Firefox for some time now and some random things have started to annoy me more and more. Honestly with XP SP2 IE seems much better now. I just wish someone would implement the tabbed browsing which I really, really like.
It's been quite some time since I last posted here. Honestly I've been way to busy with my Companies (Creative Thought, CT Location, Pacificnet, etc...) to find time to share my thoughts with the world.
Quick update on a site change - due to an overwhelming amount of blog spam I have disabled anonymous comments. Users will have to register with the site to comment on any of my posts. I would prefer not to have to do this - but the spam is just out of control. If anyone's comments have been lost in the past couple of weeks due to this I apologize.
See: Evolution in the bible, says Vatican
THE Vatican has issued a stout defence of Charles Darwin, voicing strong criticism of Christian fundamentalists who reject his theory of evolution and interpret the biblical account of creation literally.
