John Adams’ views on emerging technologies, software engineering, and various hacks
Often on our local network, someone will start using up all of our outbound Internet bandwidth, and this leads to the network administrator’s dilemma:
How do we find the user in question so we can thump them on the head to make them stop?
This is a basic exercise in information gathering. For the most part, [...]
On this page, Netgear releases Firmware version 1.0.30 for the WNR3500 router.
In my previous Apple Macbook Pro to Local network host (Mac Mini) testing, my top connection speed was around 2.4 Mbps. After the upgrade, it’s between 4.65Mbps and 7.5Mbps. Nothing near the promised speeds of 802.11N (300Mbit/sec), but I suspect that this is because [...]
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Macworld 2009 is this week in my home town of San Francisco, and while we won’t have Jobs’ famous Keynote speech nor the participation of Apple this year, we will have the usual barrage of Macworld Parties.
A great list of events and parties is right here.
My week looks a bit [...]
After building a new gigabit network here, we wanted to know exactly what our performance was like.
I turned to CAIDA, the Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis, which has long been a provider of excellent network performance tools. Their research focuses on developing tools to measure the Internet in many amazing ways, such as this map [...]
Here at my loft, which we lovingly refer to as The Concrete Bunker, or just Bunker for short, I have a Mac Mini attached to our 46″ LCD TV via a DVI to HDMI cable.
The Mini does a fair amount of work for us, playing music during dinner parties, pulling movies off of the hackintosh [...]
You’ve probably read my other article here on the Retina blog about building a Hackintosh, and recently I made the fatal mistake of killing my machine by attempting an upgrade of the working Kalyway 10.5.2 installation with Kalyway 10.5.3. It pushed the machine into a horrible state and all attempts at recovery have been lost.
I [...]
You be the judge. Aside from the extra memory, the CPU performace is nearly 200% better. 10.5.2 destroys 10.4.8. There is some minor lossage in disk performance because I’m using the onboard AHCI ports instead of JMicron ports, but wow…
Leopard is on the left, 10.48 AHCI is on the right. Leopard reports this machine as [...]
Last week’s fun was getting Leopard to run correctly on retina, which is a Mac Mini, running 10.5.2. After spending many days patching Directory Services and Postfix issues, it was time to break another machine.I headed into the studio where I’ve got a dual-monitor OSX86 machine running JaS 10.4.8.
This is commodity PC hardware, running Tiger. [...]
Retina.net runs on a Mac Mini, co-located through business cable service. For the last 8 months it’s been running on Mac OS X Tiger (10.4) with very little in the way of problems. Yesterday I started an upgrade to Leopard, which created many more problems than expected.
Major issues and caveats I experienced
No more NetInfo – [...]
Over at Pocket lint, we have what might be tomorrow’s Macworld Keynote from Steve Jobs.
It sounds plausible, with many of the expected hardware and software releases, but we’ll only know what’s going on once Macworld begins.
The iPhone API sounds somewhat open, but restricted (you must submit source code to Apple), with an opportunity for revenue [...]
