It's been a while since I wrote anything here, so I figure it's time I spewed some random thoughts. If you haven't noticed, I was playing with
Google AdSense and put some advertisements on the site. Well, I know you haven't noticed. I have the logs and the account with the $0.00 balance to prove it :) This is actually an interesting note for myself. I've been on the internet since it's inception, and this particular site is over 6 years old. Yet, I get almost 0 spam, and no hits on my site. That proves two things:
- I know how to keep myself private on the internet.
- I'm a loser.
It's all good though.
So here's some more random crap...
I bought the coolest remote I've ever had a couple of weeks back,
The Harmony One. This thing is great. It's a soap bar design, all the codes download from the
Logitech web site, it's easy to work with, and it even works as an
Xbox 360 controller. The coolest thing is the help system. If you miss turning on your receiver the remote "knows" and walks you through fixing/setting up all of your gear. I was really impressed. That's the first time in a long time that I bought a consumer electronic device and had a "wow!" reaction. Totally sweet if you're willing to shell out
$229.98 on a remote. I saved over $500 buying my
TV at
B&H, so I was willing to take the chance. The only downside is that it doesn't work with bluetooth devices like the
Wii and
PS3. Although there are
hacks to get the
PS3 to work too.
I built an
Ubuntu 8.04 (
Hardy Heron) box to be my mp3/dns/dhcp server over the
Memorial Day Weekend. I was pretty disappointed with the wi-fi setup on my server. I put a Linksys WMP54G card in there, and after a dozen times of playing with network manager and tweaking /etc/network/interfaces I finally got the card to run at 54Mbps. But even though I hard coded it, and was only about 2 feet away from my wi-fi router, I was still only getting 1-6Mbps. So that totally sucked. It was really annoying that I had to ifdown/ifup my wlan0 device in order to get link when I set up a static IP on my wlan0 device too. That was really aggravating. Oh well. I was thinking of trying
OpenSolaris just for
ZFS, but they use the same
ndiswrapper stuff and
wpa_supplicant code, so I think the driver is going to suck under any OS except
Windows. I was thinking of using
ZFS because I noticed that
mdadm and Linux software RAID in general is really slow. Plus the idea of having easy to manage snapshots was really appealing. I guess I'll just have to run some CAT-6 to my basement. I really wanted to avoid doing that. I might just try using my old
WRT54GS as a bridge and connect the server to that via ethernet and see if that gives me a decent speed boost.
Oh, mentioning
DHCP reminds me... I hate people who put static address stubs in the dynamic range. What am I talking about you ask? This:
subnet 192.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
range 192.168.1.100 192.168.1.150;
host foo {
hardware ethernet 08:00:2b:4c:29:32;
fixed-address 192.168.1.120;
}
}
That's just wrong, and if you don't know why, man dhcpd.conf(5)
