John Adams’ views on emerging technologies, software engineering, and various hacks
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Normally I don’t re-post Twitter articles here but this one on the New York magazine was wistful, fair, balanced, and gave a good representation of what it’s like to work here.
The reporter was in the office on the very day the US Airways flight crashed into the Hudson, and he [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 – [...]
