Youtube down?
I was about to take my daily dosage of vlogs, but to my surprise Youtube is experiencing some problems today, its the second time i see the Http/1.1 Service Unavailable error, hope the service is going to be restored soon!
life with JTAC :)
Yeah OK i lied - THEY didn't fix it :/ Well at least i didn't want to lie, i just hoped for the good :) As it turns out my everyday life is still connected with JTAC and looking for MAC addresses that our EX4200 decides not to learn. (or for whatever reason discards them just after being learned). I can not say we have a progress in our problem although lots of things happened that made me think that things are going better now. In the mean time Juniper decided that our switch had a hardware defect and we send us a new one. That sounded great and we have removed the old one, rebuild the virtual chassis with the member and hoped for the good. Nothing more misleading - the situation is exactly the same :( Well now our last hope is the new Service Releases of JUNOS that is supposed to be out in the middle of April, i am looking forward to that date so we can move on with different things and stop dealing with MAC addresses.
utorrent on macosx !
Something that was long awaited is coming to Mac users - utorrent! If you download torrents then you know what a pain it was on mac. Now things are changing rapidly - currently i am using Transmission which runs natively on leopard. The program is ok, i have used it before in ubuntu, but it definately has some problems with high speed downloads. My favorite torrent client comes from windows - µTorrent. The development of mac version has been ongoing from quite a long time (2 years?), and users have been pretty eager to use the new version. The µTorrent were spammed with questions about when is the mac version going to come out, resulting in moderators locking every single topic that was concerned with the mac :) My advice - to pledge your support go to mac.utorrent.com and show the developer that you are interested! I download lots of torrents and cant wait till the stable release comes out, of and BTW a beta leaked out just recentely - grab it here!
are linux flash nightmares over? probably not
Thats a good question, all that time i had to view flash based content in my browser my processor suffered, and i suffered at the same time because the browsing pleasure was very low. On October 15 Adobe released a new flash - version 10. And guess what on the download page there is a direct link for Ubuntu 8.04+! Being a Ubuntu user from a couple of years i was very pleasantly surprised. I removed my old flash install and flawlessly installed the new version. With new versions there is always now hopes for better but not this time :( It crashed on the adobe.com page, second impression it kills my work Ubuntu box that is equipped with AMD Sempron 3000+. Watching a small youtube clip consumed 60 % of my processor resources. So nothing changed, i hope the first crash was just a single accident :)
Amarok on Mac OSX becomes reality
Yes this is true and i confirm it, after long time compiling and having end up compiling something which was totally unusable and ugly i finally got my hand on something which is 10000 time better then awesome -
ubuntu server is going enterprise
Canonicals efforts to popularise the ubuntu server editions have some visable effects - Wikimedia Foundations adopted ubuntu as their server platform! That was something very pleasant for me to see. It definitely proves the reliability that ubuntu provides to is users. There is nothing that they have to proved to me - i use ubuntu from 4 years and i think its great, but there is still a lot to do to convince those hard minded Red Hat and Novell administrators that ubuntu is worth giving a try.
Don’t you hate itunes?
Ok by now i can cay i am a pretty confident mac user, managed to compile some of my open source favorites, as well as got used to some of the mac substitutes for what i used till now. I even bought a mighty mouse to enhance my mac experience (to be honest i don't like the one button idea). But there is this one thing that drives me nuts, its called ITUNES !!! I literally hate this stupid piece of software! I used it the first time when i bought an ipod last year, and i thought it was pretty stupid but then my girlfriend took over the ipod and i didn't get to used it that much. Now that i have a mac i was brutally forced by apple to use their full of bullshit music player! Can't apple admit that people get their music from different sources then just their stupid store ? Screw the stupid DRMs :/ Now i thought this would be pretty simple - you dont like this software then you try something else, right? But for mac there is no something else ! I compiled amarok and used it for a while in X11 but it is unstable, sloooow, and there is no database support :( Well there is nothing left but waiting for the official mac port of amarok2.
Amarok on OS X ?
Well well check this out Cant wait till Amarok 2 will be released ! I love Amarok it is the very best music player i have ever used, and it is one of those programs i miss the most, now i am going to try to compile from the how to thats given there. But overall it would be great if Amarok officialy supported Mac.
DD-WRT
Yesterday i did something which i would never do in a normal world :) Recently our network bought a neighboring network with around 110 clients and we were in the process of connecting them to our network. But yesterday something unexpected happened - the MAN provider refused to leases the optical fiber to them and about 90 ppl stayed without net for half a day. As a quick solution to the problem we connected out fiber connectedly to their office and i tried to SNAT their net to our router but for some reason (it always works doesn't it?) i didn't succeed to do that :( So the best solution was... DD-WRT :D Since the office they have is used as a warehouse now we had a couple of Linksys WRT54G, i grabbed one and quickly flashed it with fresh DD-WRT v24, NATed the old IPs and routed them through our router. I didn't expect a miracle to happen but it it all went nice and smooth - the network was feed up with Internet again. For the whole day poor Broadcom worked just fine caring around 30mbps/10mbps up/down traffic, but as the evening approached things got worse and worse :( Around 22:00 when the peak traffic came (about 50mbps) the router stopped to forward packets but i was still about to SSH it. When i tried to reboot it it died. As i said in the beginning i didn't expect a miracle but a total death was not expected, i think i will do some other probes and try to ask the guys at the dd-wrt forums what could have caused the sudden death ?
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