January 27, 2010
mitch @ 11:51 am on January 27, 2010
So… I’m at home today watching baby Zoey, and I’m flipping back and forth between CNN and Fox News…. CNN spent a good 20+ minutes showing whats going on on Haiti. During that same time… Fox… Nothing but how the state of the union tonight is very critical for the Presidents reputation, even within his own party! There are things he has to say in order to keep the Dem’s from turning on him… yeah… so CNN is showing the horrible situation in Haiti… and fox is bickering and FUD stirring. Then Fox moves on to the recall of the “faulty” gas pedals of 8 models of Toyota’s. Basically saying Toyota is a HORRIBLE company for having a faulty product AND RECALLING IT. ie: THEIR FIXING THE PROBLEM!! at the cost they even stated of 8 million a week! It wasn’t government mandated… it was done at their own accord. But some how this is bad… they show up outside a New York City Toyota dealer and act surprised when someone doesn’t see it as a big deal… of coarse they don’t put that person on camera, because he was looking for a hybrid, but as soon as they find a crazy lady that agree’s that toyota is a horrible company, she gets a full minute to spout her bias moronic view. Her pedal stuck in her toyota camery and she hit a pot, making her an expert that should deserve some face time on the TV, that these cars should be taken off the market (which they were… as noted previously in the story) but they were even hinting that people should stop buying Toyota’s all together? WTF Fox! Really… Your about as fair and balanced as an iceberg.
===== Update ======
Just heard commentator say that “American’s” probably wouldn’t be so against the Health Care Bill, if they just knew what was in it. I’m befuddled… WTF!!! I don’t know of any other channel thats put more mystery and added more confusion over just what was in the bill other than Fox News… so… to answer his question… its because of you, you ass-hat…
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January 21, 2010
mitch @ 10:39 am on January 21, 2010
Ok Republicans… Want something we can both be mad about? Want to talk about special interests? Want to know why I would have NEVER voted for McCain?
Supreme Court Rolls back Campaign Spending Limits THIS is VERY upsetting. What it means to you and me? Well, any corporation now has the same rights in the eyes of campaign elections as you or I. And they have MUCH deeper pockets. Want your voice to be heard? Not likely to happen because WalMart will get special time with each and every politician that will take their money. When was the last time you could sit down with your senator and have their undivided attention?
Oh and just so you know… Every Justice appointed by a republican… voted FOR this, Dems’ appointments… were against. Just to make sure you know.
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January 19, 2010
mitch @ 12:37 pm on January 19, 2010
Thanks Jon, we need more to say it… why is it it has to come from a comedian?
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January 7, 2010
mitch @ 1:12 pm on January 7, 2010
According to an article I found today… this is the case.. I would have to concur to a degree… I would however say that my “low” was more last year than this… As this one has been more of an upswing… slowly but up none the less. I still don’t have the time any more to collect my thoughts and thoroughly research things as much as I would like. Also the reason I haven’t rewritten my blog or changed the way it looks in years. However… this will change… soon. It may not be prettier… but I will have written it all… and… I will be modifying it and adding new as I see my own needs for it change.
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December 19, 2009
mitch @ 9:48 pm on December 19, 2009
Funny image fan boys
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mitch @ 10:46 am on December 19, 2009
So I haven’t been following it to closely because I can’t stand all the petty bs spewing from both sides. However one side is definatly doing more than the other…. But Democrats…. grow a pair! I mean I don’t understand why you do anything to attempt to please the republicans, because they are against you because of who you are not what you stand for. No matter what, they will disagree with you because that’s what they are supposed to do. Their followers will do the same. They don’t vote on issues, they vote party lines. Stop trying to please them, because it doesn’t matter they won’t change their vote. It will be a lot more misinformation and FUD. So if your not willing to step up and do what you were voted in to do. Could we get the Green Party to please stand up?
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November 30, 2009
mitch @ 3:23 pm on November 30, 2009
I’ve had the Motorola Cliq since the day it was released… and well… its “ok” I would say over all. Hardware wise I would say its great. I just really don’t like their software choices for Android and, well I don’t like the motoblur interface… why will they not let me change it? I understand fully why I can’t remove the apps I don’t use, because they’re part of MotoBlur. However, why does that mean I’m forced to root it to get a plain Android build on the phone? Why not provide the option Motorola? WHY?!!!
Anyway, since it is Android… it is only time before we have it rooted, and as such, I’m linking to boost up the site that wants what I do… and most android owners want… FREEDOM! Anyway, http://cliq-development.com Check it out if your in the same boat as me.
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November 22, 2009
mitch @ 8:42 am on November 22, 2009
It was a long labor but Zoey was born last night weighing in at 7lbs 14oz and 21″ long. Baby and Mother are doing fine.
Send me an email if your seeing this and haven’t seen a picture yet.
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November 19, 2009
mitch @ 9:14 am on November 19, 2009
I have to be honest… the Motorola Cliq… is fairly nice hardware, but whatever they’ve done to android… isn’t flattering… Motoblur is a huge waste of resources and apparently requires so much modification to andrioid that it must take months to modify it. Which is why it still has Android 1.5 on it, instead of the much needed 1.6 release which has a lot of speed and other improvements. But what really chaps me, is the fact that Droid has 2.0 on it… which Verizon must have paid off someone so they could get the exclusive for a while… So, sorry Moto, but I’m going with a C.. maybe a D rating on your software choices for the phone… its horrible. Maybe its because I don’t care about facebook? or any other social networking… but the fact I’m locked into a subpar sms app, can’t remove facebook, and the email apps are also quite horrible… I’ve installed new apps for these.. but I still get pop ups and such for them as well… anyway… Android is an Open Platform… why must these people lock it down? We want android for the flexibility it offers, not for you to force us into your horrible software choices! Moto… I gave you another chance… and you failed… I will be looking forward to another phone within a year or so.
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November 18, 2009
mitch @ 9:07 am on November 18, 2009
So, I installed my first 10GigE card the other week… for a high throughput NAS head for a digital printing company I contract for. For the last couple months I’ve been planning and preparing to swap out their entire network core with new Juniper equipment… I’ve installed a couple stacks of the Juniper EX4200 switches, and we even purchased a 10GigE module for a 300 meter fiber link on both ends of the building. As part of this… we thought we could improve their through put to the NAS server (CentOS 5.4 x86_64 with Samba and SAN disk, and RedHat Cluster Server) by trunking ports. As soon as I had two 1Gbit copper links trunked to these… the speed seemed to be cut in half with samba… SSH seemed to be very fast… some googling and I’m seeing reports that in a bonded nic senario, samba drops to half speed… but NFS and other protocols seem to be able to take advantage of it… Now… I’m sure an upgrade to samba would fix this… but I don’t want to introduce new variables going into their busy season… So, we purchased a 10GbE card for the server so we wouldn’t need to trunk it.
Moved over to this server with the NetXen 10GbE card… pluged it into the Juniper Switch… the link works fine… we move the digital presses over to it and it works fine for a while… after a couple hours running, I start getting errors in the log:
Nov 17 20:34:54 gondor kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth4: transmit timed out
Nov 17 20:34:54 gondor kernel: netxen_nic eth4: transmit timeout, resetting.
Nov 17 20:34:58 gondor kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth4: transmit timed out
Nov 17 20:34:58 gondor kernel: netxen_nic eth4: transmit timeout, resetting.
Did some googling, and I’ve found an article to turn off the tcp segmentation offload
so I run:
ethtool -K eth4 tso off
and you can check it with:
ethtool -k eth4
I will update this post if it makes any difference
—- UPDATE —- Nov 30, 2009 3:55 PM MST —-
After looking around… HP wants to use a nx_nic driver instead of the netxen_nic driver that comes with CentOS/RedHat Enterprise by default. So, I’ve compiled the SRPM with my build box, and Installed it on the new server. Version 4.0.516. I then upgraded the firmware on the NIC to the same. I will do some more testing to see if this is the fix I require….
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