It has always bothered me that I need to dial 1 in front of any long distance number witing north america.
Found a dial plan that supposedly eliminates the need to dial the one. Just dial the area code and the number.
Old dial plan: (*xx|[23456789]11|0|[2-9]xx[2-9]xxxxxx|[2-9]xxxxxx|1[2-9]xx[2-9]xxxxxxS0|011xxxxxxxxxxxx.)
New dial plan (Aquired from HERE.): (*xx|[3469]11|0|00|[2-9]xx xxxx|[0]xxx xxx xxxx|xxxxxxxxxx|xx xxx xxx xxxx.|*xx*xx.)
Internet seemed slow tonight. Could have been due to the torrent traffic, but that never really affected the browsing speed much in the past.
DSL report speed tests:
Flash:
MegaPath San Francisco, Ca:
Latency 50ms, Down 1374Kb/s Up 898Kb/s
Latency 65ms, Down 4370Kb/s Up 859Kb/s
Radios I’ve tried:
1.56.21.18 – Came with the AT&T WM6.1 OS.
1.71.09.01 – Latest Kaiser OS. Reception seems crappy. Missed a call at work, and in the basement reception was poor while talking tonight.
1.70.19.09 – Recommended to work well on Rogers and WM6.1. Installed 09March09. Next morning the battery was 1/2 drained.
1.65.20.29 – Recommended to work well on Rogers and WM6.1. Installed 10March09.
Ran 1.65.20.29 for a couple of days, but it seemed like it would disconnect from the network, and take forever to regain a signal. And when it did regain it, it was full strength… weird.
Battery life didn’t seem to improve much. It improved much more once I turned off the Exchange sync which was set to automatic.
So on 13 March, I went back to 1.70.19.09. It seems dislike not being connected to a 3G network. If I turn off 3G in the Comm Manager, it just searches for network…
This site is great. Especially the bit on XEN Virtualization, found here.
Lots of good info on adding USB devices to guest, adding block devices to running guests, booting guests from a NFS share, and much more…
To backup virtual machines running on LVM use this guide.
Feb01 – Updated the weather
Feb02 – Updated the weather, added the gmail account to the phone. Dowloaded 6 messages
Fef04 0 Updated weather, and updated email account (2 emails)
30March09 – Synced the Android contacts and calendar
31March09 – Synced the Android contacts and calendar
I’ve gotten inspired to turn an old laptop into a picture frame/slide show.
Some sites:
Building a digital picture frame
Project Bling
Give an Old Laptop New Life
HackIt: New life for old laptops?
I’ve been thinking about re-doing the home network/server setup, for several reasons:
1. Redundancy (currently, the file server is integral with the XEN server)
2. The QoS the linksys router (with tomato firmware) is not up to par for my tastes. Surfins still seems kinda slow, wven when not downloading anything crazy.
I am trying to configure pfSense as a XEN VM, and the main difficulty is getting the network adapters to work properly.
I have successfully ran pfSense as a VM in OpenSuSE 10.3, and I am documenting this to make life easier for next time.
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I think I’ve hit upon the ideal (for me) setup of the firewall.
The internet connection will look something like this:
Internet –> Cable Modem –> pfsense router (as VM) –> Dlink 524? router –> LAN
The main reason for this setup is redundancy. If the VM dies, or the VM server goes down, I can very quickly go to this alternate setup:
Internet –> Cable Modem –> Dlink 524? router –> LAN
by just plugging the cable modem in to the dlink router instead of pfsense software firewall.
The router will take case of assigning IP addresses, so that feature needs to be disabled in pfsense (so there’s no fighting)
With this setup I can have control of the data that goes out on the net (shape it anyway I want with pfsense) and still have the flexibility to remove it from the chain, without making ANY setup changes to keep the network connectivity going (Very important, in order to keep a high WAF)