Linux gets Goooed, I got Tomato and They fixed our EX4200
Those things happened closely at the same time and they are all for good ! First thanks to some good people Linux gets a native game World of Goo. BIG Thanks to two ex - EA employees who BTW. had spent their entire savings to develop the game. I only wish those guys will get their savings back, it might be hard since 90% of Windows users who play that game have STOLEN IT!!! So far i only heard about World of Goo but didint have time to try it personally, but now when a native linux port is available i will give a shot for sure!!!
Second i got rid of DD-WRT, and become a happy Tomato user. One evening i decided to give it a try and i will never come back, and I got good reasons for it. First with Tomato my net is 40 % faster, second QoS really works, third i found that, do some research and its actually true. DD-WRT uses some crippled drivers both for wireless NIC and Ethernet ports. Since i got Tomato my ping to my provider lowered with 0,4 ms !!! My router is always accessible through SSH and WEB, so far it never froze! (dd-wrt used to freeze 2-3 times a week!!!).
And the last one from good things is that they (JTAC), finally admitted and i hope fixed our problem. In November we got 2 Junipers EX4200, and since then we understood that we have just become a part of Juniper beta testers team and that we better get familiar with JTAC and how to manage a support case there. Our problem was that sometimes somehow and somewhere (totaly random times and places), the switch would refuse to learn certain MACs or it would not forward traffic between them. The last secure meeting (one of 1000 we had in the past 2 moths) revealed a problem - The Engineer who was looking at our switch discovered that PFE had two modes of MAC learning enabled - Packet Transfer and Message Mode. They were working concurrently in the ASIC and conflicting each other. After disabling the 1st one the situation seems to be stabilized, and i hope that was causing our troubles. The annoying this is that it took us more than 2 months to dig through their bureaucracy in order to reach an engineer...
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 :)
no more porn & ubuntu
I found that one while reading linux haters, it is in deed the most bizzare reason to switch operating systems i have ever heard of. Check it yourself link. Funny and sad at the same time, but i think its mostly funny :D In fact i laughed my ass when i have seen it !