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Root the Motorola Cliq

November 30, 2009 Posted by mitch | android, cliq, technology | 0 Comments

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.

and then there was a baby

November 22, 2009 Posted by mitch | family, life | 0 Comments

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.

Root my Cliq

November 19, 2009 Posted by mitch | technology | 0 Comments

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.

NetXen Incorporated NX3031 Multifunction 1/10-Gigabit Server Adapter

November 18, 2009 Posted by mitch | work | 0 Comments

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....

Why I'm not on facebook....

November 7, 2009 Posted by mitch | thoughts | 0 Comments

Wow... the drama and racisim of facebook... Some have asked why I'm not on facebook... and well... I wouldn't have many friends after a while.. I'd have a hard time holding my "tongue" with the hate, racism, and stupiditiy. I'm sorry, I watch fox news for as much as I can stand, I listen to KSL which retransmits hannity et. all... and honestly... If you know me, I'm very into technology, and my job depends on how well I can logically put things together, and so far... Fox News hasn't really stood the test of logic in my mind... most of their "reason's" fail basic Logical Fallacies tests. After having experienced a formal class on the topic, I have been wondering why these classes are not taught earlier in life... Why must one attend College to experience a class such as these? Do we not want our youth *thinking* to early? I mean I also believe our school system needs an overhaul... but thats another issue entirely. Because, by the time someone is college age... they've clearly made up their mind about things already... and there are a large portion that are... clearly, wrong. (Argued with quite a few of them in my classes...) Yes, I just went there. In my life I've experienced a very wide range of people, as I've been communicating with people from all over the world since I was 12 years old (again, if you only knew half of my background in life... you might be amazed at some of the things I've done....) I've known a lot of different view points, and I too... used to claim to be Republican (I grew up in Happy Valley in Utah after all). What happen you might ask, well... during that time I must admit politics annoyed me, I still believed politicians were liars.(and to a degree I still do) But anyway, what I was working on in my life was trying to see how my "skills" I had self taught myself on the computer with many, many, many hours of reading and trial and error would fit into a paying career. Where I had been learning about "Free Software" and "Open Source", and what it means for Software Freedom, and the term FUD (Fear,Uncertainty and Doubt). This term became engrained in me and the deep meanings associated to it. I then figured, I could apply such ideals to everything else in my life, as those meanings were very well thought out and reasoned. This is where my political views began to change. Part of my FUD mentality, I began to question everything, nothing was sacred and couldn't be touched. So everything I was supposed to believe went into question and I wondered why? Why? This is something that I still do today and a large reason why I describe myself as an Independent. I'm independent because I don't believe in having one type of answer for every situation. I'm not entirely conservative, nor am I completely liberal, but there are a few things they portray they stand for that I agree with. For example... I love the idea of being financially conservative, however I don't think either Republican's nor Democrat's are. I also believe US Citizens have the right to keep and bear arms(As I believe in the ideals set by the constitution). As I believe that its an excellent way of protecting ones self. Which leans me towards something else that bothers me.... A *Free* society is not a *Safe* society. So, to have freedom does not mean you *will* be safe. If you believe you can prohibit the rights of someone else, because one person or small group did something unspeakable, then what's to stop it from happening to you? Thats a slippery slope when would it end? The serial killers I can name off the top of my head are all white middle aged males... does that mean I should be locked up? Timothy McVeigh was also a home grown terrorist.... also white and middle aged... What I'm trying to say is that its *impossible* to say that one type of person is dangerous and should be barred from doing something. So.. you weigh your risks... you have to keep your eyes open, and watch for signs because it could be *ANYONE* and to be free means everyone has to be vigilant because stereo types won't get you anywhere. One more thing... this health care bill... what do you people have against people getting well? What do you have against the government setting a minimum requirement of what a persons Health care plan covers? You already allow it for Auto Insurance... After all that is what the Bill dictates... its not anything really alarming its just gathering a bunch of standards *we already have* and reaffirming we have them, and then making some extensions like saying an insurance company doesn't get a get out of jail free card under the guise of *"PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS"*. That is utter BS... I've seen PERSONAL stories straight from the person affected about getting dropped when they most needed the insurance because they were finally actually sick... paid all their life. I fear that one day that could be me... and if we can stop it now... we should. I know some of you will say that there are problems with health care but that this bill is not the right answer. And what I find amusing is that this question has been asked of the fox and friends crew... all of them and NONE of them have given an answer to that question, and what I've noticed is you also will not have a solution. You will however deviate and try to change the subject onto something other than health care and somehow thats how we can fix the health care system? what? really? Its a straight forward non trick question. And all I see is misdirection or ignorance to the problem from the right. The fact remains, ALL other fifth world counties have a national health care system, and they ALL rate above us according to the WHO. So... again, what exactly is it in this bill that will ruin our health care? All I hear is that it will ruin it, but why? I've heard it be the money issue, which is rediculous, because canada spends half what we do on their national system and medicade doesn't cover a third... there's lots of waste, theres lots of issues not saying the bill is going to fix them all, but its a good start.

For Fox Sake!

November 2, 2009 Posted by mitch | media | 0 Comments

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart	Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c
For Fox Sake!
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