The eclectic musings of a bitter software engineer.

A new apartment

Friday September 10, 2004 @ 05:18 PM (PDT)

I signed the lease this afternoon and inspected the apartment. Very clean and in excellent condition. I like it!

There’s a nice walk-in closet in the bedroom that will be a perfect server room.

The living room is the perfect size and shape for my home theatre equipment.

Ordered Speakeasy DSL. That’s 6 perfect megabits of downstream bandwidth, baby! And no phone line! Ha!

Moving in tomorrow. Pictures on photoblog soon.

Comments

So why are you moving?

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RainMirage
Friday September 10, 2004 @ 10:06 PM (PDT)

I felt like having my own place again. Things are easier that way.

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Friday September 10, 2004 @ 10:09 PM (PDT)
Looks nice in the photoblog...

Although I think Buffy isn't the right decor statement for that room :P
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Eilonwy
Saturday September 11, 2004 @ 12:53 PM (PDT)
Congrats on your new place.

I know this is offtopic, but I can't really create threads here... :) I was just thinking your website is perfect for being designed just like gmail's conversation style cleint side expanding pages...
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dhess
Saturday September 11, 2004 @ 07:18 PM (PDT)

I dunno if this is happening to anyone else but a good few times I get pages ending up like this:
wonko.png

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TimTim
Sunday September 12, 2004 @ 07:55 AM (PDT)

you do realize that your problem is xp right?

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impeesia
Sunday September 12, 2004 @ 11:11 AM (PDT)

And why is that, exactly? I use XP and have never seen anything like this.

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GreyStork
Sunday September 12, 2004 @ 04:56 PM (PDT)

Have you tried disabling AdBlock and any other add-ons that may alter the page?

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digdug
Sunday September 12, 2004 @ 07:36 PM (PDT)

There shouldn't be a problem with ad-block, my version only disables links which I specify and unsolicted pop-ups. Unless there is bits of doubleclick.net or other crap like that embedded in the site.

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TimTim
Monday September 13, 2004 @ 01:09 PM (PDT)

But I live in Keller, TX and I just had my 15Mb/s Down 2Mb/s Up Fiber to the home installed by Verizon. It rocks! :) No more copper lines to my house!! $49.99 a month.

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Mike
Monday September 13, 2004 @ 01:12 PM (PDT)
I'm curious: what are the terms of service? Do you get a static IP with that?

There are some pretty big institutions that squeeze through a T1 line. This is significantly more bandwidth (even upstream) than a T1 provides, so I om curious what the usage restrictions are like.
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Mithrandir
Monday September 13, 2004 @ 02:06 PM (PDT)

No servers are allowed unless you get the business package. It allows servers and is 30Mb/s down, 5Mb/s up for $199.00.

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Mike
Tuesday September 14, 2004 @ 03:28 PM (PDT)

Still much cheaper than any other solution with similar specs. One wonders if this will have much of an affect on the price of bandwidth in the larger market while it's in trials.

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Mithrandir
Tuesday September 14, 2004 @ 04:34 PM (PDT)

I don't know. I do know that for the first time in my life the server bandwith is uaually slower than my link. Occasionally I will hit incredible 15Mb/s down (Microsoft, Redhat, etc). But most sites I download from never get above 5-6Mb/s down.

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Mike
Thursday September 16, 2004 @ 03:13 PM (PDT)

How long did it take for SpeakEasy to set up your connection and send you the needed hardware from when you first ordered your OneLink package? I'm planning on switching ISPs, but I don't want to be offline for several days because of it...

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GreyStork
Saturday September 25, 2004 @ 11:47 AM (PDT)
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