Month: February 2007

crossing the atlantic on cogent wire is like traveling on a Zeppelin

internet

traceroute.

sad traceroute:
5 pos2-0.core01.ham01.atlas.cogentco.com (212.20.158.38) 375.207 ms 375.056 ms 377.128 ms
6 p4-0.core01.dus01.atlas.cogentco.com (130.117.1.177) 429.681 ms 481.387 ms 481.802 ms
7 p13-0.core01.ams03.atlas.cogentco.com (130.117.1.125) 57.307 ms 56.128 ms 55.016 ms
8 p1-0.core01.lon01.atlas.cogentco.com (130.117.1.225) 61.937 ms 59.841 ms 56.989 ms
9 p3-0.core02.jfk02.atlas.cogentco.com (66.28.4.189) 230.387 ms * 247.512 ms
10 t3-3.mpd03.jfk02.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.5.234) 234.125 ms 230.982 ms 230.780 ms
11 t9-4.mpd01.dca01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.6.138) 237.025 ms 239.146 ms 237.933 ms
12 pc13.mpd01.iah01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.2.146) 315.621 ms 315.980 ms 316.001 ms
13 t2-1.mpd01.lax01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.3.38) 319.648 ms 316.373 ms 316.045 ms
14 g9-0-0.core01.lax01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.1.101) 314.054 ms 317.387 ms 315.319 ms

Dear Cogent, if you don’t have the connections to do things, then please don’t pretent that you can.

tourism

free of any reason

If I would be in charge of tourism for a city I would spend as much money as possible to make the restrooms of the local airport as nice as possible. Sitting in a A330 waiting to take off to Amsterdam, the restroom is pretty much all I remember from Memphis. Those 15 minutes I had on the ground could have been better used to the advantage of the town.

Speaking of travel restrooms: On the first leg the flight attendants had put a bag of coffee on the coat hanger in the bath room. The smell of the room was better than usual. Funny how those bags are usually not more than 5 feet away from the bath room. But it took years before some smart flight attendant had that idea. It was probably that cute deadhead sitting one row behind me.

looks like what it is

technology

drive that looks like a drive

uncle festers bluf: called

linux M$

simple, yet powerful

cingular sucks ass

economy marketing

Phone companies. Now they call Cingular AT&T. Whatever that means.
I realized that I picked the wrong minutes plan. Too high. Trying to change it.
Of course the web form get’s stuck when you try to submit your information.
The Cingular site is the worst orange thing I ever saw.
It will not help if they make it blue again, and call it at@t.
It should work, and it does not:
The autopay feature somehow stopped working. That’s the only
thing that it has to do: pay my bills. The card is right, still works, is still valid and covered.

debian NO_PUBKEY apt-get update error

linux


W: GPG error: http://security.debian.org etch/updates Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
W: GPG error: http://ftp.debian.org etch Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems

get’s fixed by

gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net --recv-keys XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
apt-key add /root/.gnupg/pubring.gpg
apt-get update

as stated here

Substitute the missing key for XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

genesis assembly

technology

The genesis of a Genesis slightly edited

some links

misc

list of things that improve customer relations
book about linux programming
video about journlists in Iraq
a way to clean up your desk from tech stuff
uncle fester threatens to throw a chair at a pirate

zodiac articles

confessions of a pixel pusher media

about the Camera
Local news in Napa Valley
the NY Times

Saw it today in it’s final form. Well, as a 35mm print. Which was kind of sad. On a projector that has serious focus problems. I liked it. It will be interesting how the general public will react. It is certainly not what people expect when they mention “Fincher” and “Serial Killer” in one breath.

the long last throws

history politics

eighteen Months ago the vice president predicted that the Iraq war would be over soon

What is ridicolous is that this administration is still been taken serious by some. Their track record of mis judgements is pretty stellar.