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Does Verizon really think 15% packet loss is OK?I have a customer who has had some VPN troubles - flaky connections, disconnects, inability to connect. I've been telling them it's Verizon, but Verizon kept telling them that I'm wrong, so I went back in for another look. ..
Networking 1/8/2009 Tony Lawrence 7 views
Browser Waffling
Sometime recently I introduced a major error into my pages. It was a silly thing - just a mistype in a css style. What I meant to do was create a "div" with a fixed width of 200px (width:200px) but what I actually typed was "iwidth:200px". People who use vi regularly will smile wryly because they know just how that happened - my fingers bounced on the "i" key and I didn't notice. ..
Blogging 1/8/2009 Tony Lawrence 36 views
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ASUS motherboards and some others are imbedding Splashtop Linux in flash to give an "instant on" option with web applications ready to go: Firefox, Skype etc. This is obviously appealing, both for the quick access access to the web when you are out wandering with your notebook, but also for security concerns when you've joined an open network at some coffee shop. ..
Linux 1/7/2009 Tony Lawrence 166 views
Seeking Political Asylum - need ride
I apologize for not knowing how to address you properly - they don't teach us much down here. Or up here, over here: however you think of us in relation to where ever you came from. Come from. Are from. Were from? ..
Lighter 1/7/2009 Tony Lawrence 196 views
Passive Income Smooths the Flow
Passive income is income that requires no work - an annuity that sends you a monthly check is an example. It may have taken a lot of work to accumulate the money you used to purchase that annuity, but after that you just cash the checks - or not even that if they go right into your bank account. ..
Employment 1/5/2009 Tony Lawrence 243 views
Hitting the Google Sweet Spot
When I was researching the competition for my 'Working for yourself" e-book of course I visited Google to search for related books and websites. Imagine my surprise this morning when I searched Google for "Work for yourself" and found that page on page one in the sixth position! That's pretty darn good! ..
Blogging 1/4/2009 Tony Lawrence 279 views
Vista Boomers - Microsoft's Power Failure
Whenever there has been a protracted power outage, it has often been followed by an upsurge in births nine months later. We all understand why: people are bored, stuck in the dark with nothing else to do.
We're having a bit of a Microsoft power outage right now. ..
Microsoft 1/4/2009 Tony Lawrence 355 views
Book Review: Programming in Objective-C 2.0 (Second Edition)
I have to wonder how much of its intended audience will be reading much of this part either. I can't think too many people with no prior exposure to object oriented C are going to pick this up for their first venture into Mac OS X programming. More likely they'll come from a background even deeper and stronger than mine and will be skimming through the first 300 pages even faster than I did: classes, check - good analogies, not over drawn, basic types, check, inheritance, polymorphism, check, check.. let's get to the OS X stuff! ..
Books 1/3/2009 Tony Lawrence 348 views
Frustrated by LinuxToday's comment system
I'm very frustrated by the comments at LinuxToday's link to one of my posts. The problem is that it takes hours for comments to appear, and I'm not even sure that all of my replies have been posted at all. Therefore I'm going to dupe my response here: ..
Linux 1/2/2009 Tony Lawrence 320 views
Another look at Linux code dependencies
That's when I found out all of the Python module requirements. In true Python fashion, there's no convenient way to test the software before installation. I see this with many Python packages, and I think the casual nature of Python scripting discourages good programming and system hygene. Once I saw the large balls of Python that went along with this program, I decided to skip the installation. ..
Linux 1/2/2009 Tony Lawrence 342 views
Stupid is as stupid does and I've done plenty of stupid
A few of the comments here and at that LinuxToday post have questioned my competence and made fun of my selling an ebook on Linux and Unix troubleshooting. I have to smile a little myself. I've said more than a few times that I don't consider myself "expert" on anything, that at best I'm willing to call myself "competent" and I've also frequently noted that I (like most of us) can be bone numbingly stupid every now and then. ..
Opinion 1/2/2009 Tony Lawrence 338 views
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