Monthly Archives: June 2008
traceroute from Comcast to BlueHost [wtf?]
I was wondering why my site was taking FOREVER to load… Looks like something between Comcast and level3.net (AT&T) is really bad.. Here is the trace: troy@troy-desktop:~$ sudo traceroute troy-watson.com traceroute to troy-watson.com (69.89.31.181), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets 1 * * * 2 * * * 3 * * * 4 COMCAST-IP.car1.Seattle1.Level3.net (4.79.104.110) … Continue reading
Vista SP1 [w00t?]
Well I booted my machine to vista… And this is how it went down… Yay! Service Pack 1! WTF Service Pack 1?
Dust Devils on Mars [OMG]
This is the coolest thing I have seen in my life. These animated images are from photos captured by Mars lander Phoenix.
MySpace.com [finally] Jazzes Up Their Design
Looks like MySpace has upgraded their look and feel. Finally.. I wonder how long it will be before they update and optimize their datacenters. For those of you lucky enough not to have accounts, here is their (my) new home page… It doesn’t look bad at all.
OpenSolaris 2008.05
I’ve never really been a huge fan of Sun or Solaris, but after running it for a couple hours, it seems that almost everything “just works”; its great! To an novice it would seem like any other Linux distro, but its not! Its about 20% more responsive, and very stable. Great job Sun! Enough talk, … Continue reading
Use Hugin to Automate Panoramas in Ubuntu
I’ve been using Hugin for a couple years now, and its saved me hundreds of hours of work. Creating a great panorama is hard without a tool like Hugin, or Photoshop. With Hugin, you have greater control, and some really inteligent code to get the job done a lot faster than Photoshop. Most the time … Continue reading
Win2Lin
Linux is gaining more and more popularity everyday. Right now Windows in the grand scheme of software is well supported legacy software. Its simply out of date. Unix, Linux, and BSD have always been lighter, and more stable. Unless you’re a gamer, there is little reason to switch. BUT if you are a gamer that … Continue reading