Author: spierzchala

So, I took advantage of the T-Mobile Upgrade a year program yesterday and went for the Motorola V188.[here and here]

Should be here next week. And no, I have no clue how Julia Roberts got my cell number.

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Technorati: tmobile, v188

If you chose your people well, and define the problem clearly, they will solve the problem.
Your job, Mr./Ms./Mrs. Manager: STAY THE HELL OUT OF THE WAY.
Oh, and Rick says it far more eloquently than I can.[here]

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Today, by special delivery, I got notice that FIOS is available at my house.
I called Comcast and asked how they were going to match this offer. They offered me $29.95/mo. for 6 months.
Now, because of my unique situation (i.e., requiring a semi-permamnent IP address to allow people to access my servers), I may be stuck with Comcast, because Verizon uses the much smarter random release on DHCP addresses.
But for 97% of the Web-surfing public, FIOS will be the cat’s meow. And that the the flow of customers from Comcast will become a flood. A cable company that continues to think like a cable company in this new world will look like Bethlehem Steel in 3 years…or less.
I have a good friend who is a senior network engineer at Comcast; I hope he is looking for a new job.

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I started gathering data on a number of large MSM Web sites, and created an index, similar to what I created for Search sites.
Check it out!
GrabPERF News Index

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This is the second day in a row that I have been working from home. Why? My car developed a terminal electrical problem on Sunday. This should surprise no one when I mention that it is a late 1980s Honda Civic.

Honda/Acura #4: Honda Accords, Preludes, Civics and Acura Integras built from 1986-1989 (Bosch reman alternators AL256X, AL382X, AL383X, AL386X, AL387X, AL388X, AL451X) are prone to a no-start condition due to a low battery charge. This condition can be traced to frequent short trip driving with the rear window defogger left in the “on” position, along with high underhood temperatures. The combination of the continual discharge due to the defogger being left on and the high underhood temperatures, tends to cause these models to dine out frequently on batteries.
To curb the battery appetite of these cars, Honda and Acura have introduced defogger switch/timers and a battery heat shield. The defogger switch/timer automatically shuts off after 25 minutes, and the heat shield helps deflect some of the engine’s heat away from the battery. Honda part numbers are 35500-SE0-A11 (defogger switch/timer) and 06377-SE3-A00 (battery cover kit). Acura only offers these parts as a complete kit: 1986-87 models are kit 06377-SD2-A01 and 1988-89 models are kit 06377-SD2-A11.
Understanding Your Import Car’s Electrical System

This means the alternator needs to be replaced (second one in 6 years).
Looks like cold beans and uncooked rice to eat for a while…

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Checked my GrabPERF logs just now and was shocked.
Not every day a billionaire checks out my home-rolled Web performance measurement tool.
Hi Mark! Thanks for dropping by.

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There are now 3 GrabPERF locations running.
Now I am looking for some folks to run it from the West Coast, Europe and Asia.
Go Go Gadget Monitor!

Technorati: GrabPERF, Web Performance, Web Performance Measurement, Web Performance Monitoring, curl, linux
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There are now TWO GrabPERF measurement locations.
There have been a few adjustments to the collected statistics as a result.
Many thanks to Sean Walberg for getting this debugged.
Ok folks…whose next? Who wants to host a GrabPERF measurement location?
Requirements here. The only addition to this is that I need to know what time zone you’re in.

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…and why I will NEVER go back.
Jeremy Zawodny on the Bay Area housing market. [here]
Earth to SiliValley Employers: No one who has lived in the Bay Area, and escaped, will EVER return…unless the money is right.
And for me, getting me to work in that nightmare area again will take as much money per day as it would take me to commute to work in Manhattan every day.

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Well, due to the paranoid 1d10ts who run my work network, I can’t test the remote script from my work linux machine. I have one beta tester and need some others to ensure that it works.
Again, what you need on your linux machine:

• cURL (compiled from source or with the devel packages)
• MySQL client and devel packages
• Time::CTime for PERL
• A static external IP address so I can allow you to access the backend systems through my firewall

I am ready; sign up now!

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