Archive for June, 2008
traceroute from Comcast to BlueHost [wtf?]
by Troseph on Jun.25, 2008, under Uncategorized
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) 1051.037 ms * *
5 * * *
6 * ae-14-51.car4.Seattle1.Level3.net (4.68.105.5) 970.128 ms 829.879 ms
7 INTEGRA-TEL.car4.Seattle1.Level3.net (4.71.156.30) 840.020 ms 498.107 ms 388.462 ms
8 tg9-4.cr01.sttlwatw.integra.net (209.63.114.133) 84.859 ms 74.570 ms 77.684 ms
9 tg13-1.cr01.ptleorte.integra.net (209.63.114.98) 77.398 ms 95.024 ms 137.277 ms
10 tg13-4.cr02.ptleorte.integra.net (209.63.114.142) 895.688 ms 902.977 ms 905.247 ms
11 tg13-1.cr02.boisidpz.integra.net (209.63.114.18) 907.638 ms 910.046 ms 912.363 ms
12 tg13-4.cr01.boisidpz.integra.net (209.63.114.13) 917.004 ms 919.320 ms 921.591 ms
13 tg13-1.cr01.slkcutxd.integra.net (209.63.114.30) 923.985 ms 926.359 ms 928.767 ms
14 tg9-1.ar10.slkcutxd.integra.net (209.63.114.254) 930.246 ms 931.733 ms 933.158 ms
15 gw0-cust-bluehost-com.slkc.eli.net (70.97.59.22) 934.537 ms 74.875 ms 230.638 ms
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1051.037 ms!?!?!? Come on! This is like dialup! 15Mb/s my ass.
Vista SP1 [w00t?]
by Troseph on Jun.23, 2008, under Uncategorized
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]
by Troseph on Jun.22, 2008, under Food, Uncategorized
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
by Troseph on Jun.18, 2008, under Uncategorized
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.


