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 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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October 28, 2009
mitch @ 8:25 am on October 28, 2009
WHAT!?!?! COMCAST and QWEST CONSIDER YOURSELVES NOTIFIED of atleast myself and EVERYONE I WORK WITH (20+ people) that would all agree that FAST internet access is desired. With a $50/month Charge for 50Mbit too!?!? Hell yes! Where is Utopia when I need them… Damn South Jordan City for believing in their lies.
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October 24, 2009
mitch @ 7:44 am on October 24, 2009
well… its been a really long time… but now, my iPhone has broken. I don’t really feel to bad about it… it was a First Gen 4GB model… and I’ve been wanting an Android based phone for the better part of a year now. So, if anything I’m a bit upset that it broke a week to early. As the Motorola Cliq isn’t being released to the public until November 2nd. I’ve been back and forth over what phone I should get, and I’ve decided on the Cliq, mostly because its cheap… I’ve never used a phone with a full keyboard, so I’ll be using that as a comparison too… I will probably Root the phone and put the normal android build on it too… instead of the Motoblur interface, because, if you didn’t know, I’m not big into the social networking sites… I avoid them actually.
Anyway… come next week I’ll let you know how it works out.
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August 31, 2009
mitch @ 7:19 am on August 31, 2009
I’ve attempted, very poorly I might add… to put to words what I think of our current political situations… With listening to George Orwell’s 1984 on my drive home for the last week, I’ve been making comparisons to today’s world and the one imagined by Orwell… and the certain similarities are alarming to be honest. Anyway, I came across an article entitled: The Republican Party Is Turning Into A Cult. And, I believe it describes how I’ve felt for some time… but I believe it manages to remain “fair” and “balanced”.
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August 23, 2009
mitch @ 12:15 pm on August 23, 2009
So, I ran into an issue that didn’t seem to be really documented anywhere that I could find anyway.. and it has to deal with a LAG (Link Aggregation Group) between a J6350 (any J-Series would be similar) and a stack of EX4200T switches in the DMZ for a company I’m doing some consulting for. The J6350 has an additional uPIM of 8×1gige ports on it, and I had taken two of them and connected them to two interfaces on the EX switch. I had created three zones on the J6350, one for the Internet drop or Untrust, a second for the Core network or Trust zone, and the third being the DMZ zone. I setup policies permiting the Trust and DMZ zones to access the Untrust zone, and the trust zone is allowed to access the DMZ zone. The DMZ zone is routed on the J6350 for ease of managing access between the different VLANS. This is where the point of confusion came. Zones need the connecting interface added to their zone, and I had been thinking that adding the LAG interface (ae0.0) to the zone would work… It wasn’t. Once I added the virtual vlan interfaces (vlan.100, vlan.101, vlan.103 and vlan.190) everything worked as it should.
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March 6, 2009
mitch @ 8:22 am on March 6, 2009
So, I was reading my daily dose of digg and I came across a story about a guy with one very upset windows support “tech” yelling at him in a gas station. And, I have to say, its ridiculous. I mean… its been the case for many years that Microsoft has created a whole ecosystem around fixing their Broken OS(tm). But to say that Open Source is the reason these people are loosing their jobs? Pfft, if they couldn’t see that this Open Source(tm) thing wasn’t a fad, then they deserve to loose their job. The Technology Field isn’t about just one Technology (Broken OS spoken of previously), its about many different ones, that all work together (some better than others… see previous comments) and form what’s commonly just referred to as “technology”. Which also has a saying, which even those asshats would know, is that its constantly changing, as soon as something makes it to market… its outdated within a month. Just the nature of the beast, and you learn to roll with it. I would also say that being able to roll with it, and not locking myself down to any one particular technology is the reason I’ve gotten as far as I have in my own career. I definitely have my preferences(see my blog…), but that guy just needs to find his cheese.
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January 17, 2009
mitch @ 2:17 pm on January 17, 2009
I’m a computer systems consultant by profession… and I’ve come across the need to setup a backup system. I’ve used Bacula before, and I rather like it. I’ve used various different libraries with it, an MSL from HP and a StorVault from Dell, but this is my first time using a Storstation from Sony. I started setting it up, and I almost had it setup and a tried to start labeling the media… and I got this:
Sending label command for Volume “A0BJ3B” Slot 1 …
3307 Issuing autochanger “unload slot 7, drive 0″ command.
3304 Issuing autochanger “load slot 1, drive 0″ command.
3992 Bad autochanger “load slot 1, drive 0″: ERR=Child died from signal 15: Termination.
I was setting this up on an Ubuntu 8.04 LTS server and it all had gone well until this.
Turns out the library is to slow and I had to make some modifications with the config. In the bacula-sd.conf and make the drive config look like this: (its counter intuitive I would think it should have been in the AutoChanger config… but its part of the Drive config.
Device {
Name = Drive-1
Drive Index = 0
Media Type = AIT-4
Archive Device = /dev/nst0
AutomaticMount = yes;
AlwaysOpen = yes;
RemovableMedia = yes;
RandomAccess = no;
AutoChanger = yes
Maximum Changer Wait = 600
}
The key is the Maximum Changer Wait. Default is 120 seconds… I tried 300 and that didn’t work… but 600 is working for me.
I thought I’d post it tho, because I didn’t find anyone talking(in english) about this library with bacula…
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January 3, 2009
mitch @ 2:43 pm on January 3, 2009
So… I’ve been wanting a new phone for a while… and I want an Android based phone. After seeing the G1, while I believe its nice… its not worth the move just yet… But after seeing the announcement from Samsung that they will be releasing sometime in Q2 of 2009.
Its rumoured to resemble the Samsung Omnia… which from the looks of it: I love it.
Sweet Looking Phone
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December 7, 2008
mitch @ 10:01 am on December 7, 2008
The title… absurd right? How is it possible for them to use more bandwidth than they pay for? Short answer… its not, but according to this study, its not only possible its happening.
From another article at arstechnica criticizing this new “research”, they made a rather amusing comparison that I feel explains it perfectly.
Imagine that I proposed to you the following argument. I have (let’s pretend) added up all the fuel consumed in the process of getting WidgetCo’s widgets from the factory to consumers. There’s all the gas burned by the trucks that bring the widgets from the factory to the retail store. And then there’s the gas each consumer burns driving to and from the store for widgets. And having added up the costs of all this carbon, I discover that WidgetCo is paying only a tiny fraction of the total cost of the fuel consumed in the process of getting widgets from the factory to the homes of customers. Now suppose I claim that this is evidence of some form of outrageous unfairness—WidgetCo is somehow forcing you to subsidize their shipping costs! (The widgets, by the way, are free.)
If, in fact, I were to make such an argument, you would rapidly conclude that there are really only two possibilities: (1) I am a moron, or (2) I must think that you are if I expect you to find this persuasive.
To put maybe a little simpler… for the amount of traffic the Google sends out… they have to have an internet connection to equal that. And on the receiving end… the end user buys an internet connection thats capable of the speed with which they would like to download at. In short BOTH ends have paid their share of their bandwidth usage. What’s really the concern however, is that the people Google buys their bandwidth, and connections from is not the telcos, its from the same providers the Telco’s buy theirs from. Otherwise known as the backbone providers, and ultimately this is the problem. They feel that they should get a cut of the money Google is paying to their upstream providers because they’re having to build infrastructure to support their users wanting to connect to Google faster and faster. And they’re complaining about Google subsidizing? Sounds like they want to be, even in a time of record profits… yeah you heard me. Sad thing is, is the Telco’s currently get subsidized by our Government through our Tax money, which is supposed to pay for the continual upgrades required to infrastructure. I’ll give you a guess where they’re not spending it… In the end, this is ultimately the result of why I was a huge supporter of Utopia for community based fiber infrastructure.
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