Ever wondered why 3G from Vodaphone is so crap? I did, so from Central station I did a ping test on each network one after another. Here is the difference between the latency to an AARNET connected host @ ANSTO. The results speak for themselves. Vodaphone: — 137.157.8.5 ping statistics —10 packets transmitted, 10 packets [ View Post… ]
Telstra 3g vs. Vodaphone 3g Latency
Cat5’O Nine Tails
I think the plastic clips would hurt … Yes, you are looking at a flogger crafted from cat-5 wiring. (Internet cable, in other words.) It sports a D-ring for easy hanging. This will satisfy your inner – or outer! – geek for sure. 🙂 Each tip is firmly wired in place and secured with bonding [ View Post… ]
mplayer2 (and other goodies) on OpenIndiana (possibly Solaris 11)
Want mplayer2 (the newer fork of mplayer) that uses ffmpeg goodness to play all the latest avi’s with funky codecs and mp4 hidef goodness. Some Openindiana contributors are building a lot of friendly packages in the oi-sfe repo. [plain] sudo pkg set-authority -O http://staticdev.uk.openindiana.org:10002 oi-sfe sudo pkg refresh –full sudo pkg install SFEmplayer2 SFEgccruntime [/plain] [ View Post… ]
ipadm Script for Openindiana / Solaris 11 Ex
I love ipadm. It rocks. Much needed for Solaris and derivatives. I seem to keep forgetting the dam new ipadm commands tho. So I wrote this script to help me set up new Solaris machines and thought I would share. [bash] #!/usr/bin/bash INTERFACE=$1 ADDRESS=$2 GATEWAY=$3 V6AUTO=1 errorCheck() { if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then echo "ERROR: [ View Post… ]
Old School Lecture Typewriter Trolling
“What is that? Can you mute it?” [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iE7AaTVMXA0&w=480&h=390] “It dosen’t do that.”
KFC 20Twenty Top 10 6’s
If you did not see all the biggest hits of the 2010 KFC Big Bash here they are – Awesome stuff. I do love David “The Canon” Warner’s hit out of Tasmania off Hilfy … FoxSports Top 10 6’s 2010 KFC Big Bash
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