Posts tagged as:

Linux

Holy Bandwidth - Take 3

July 17, 2008

I just upgraded my existing Road Runner turbo connection to their Business Class service and I now have 15Mbps downstream and 2 Mbps upstream along with QOS to give my packets priority over the rest of the regular Roadrunner customers.

Road Runner Turbo - Business Class bandwidth test

Prior to this upgrade, I was getting 15Mbps downstream and 1 Mbps upstream and so the extra Mbps of upstream is nice but I can really tell the difference in the QOS. I did a speed test to a server in Chicago and then to another server in San Francisco and didn't notice any drop in speed or overall bandwidth. Prior to business class Road Runner, there was significant drop-off in speed as you traveled further away from my location. Next step - static IP and then I can put the Linux boxes at home to good use

Tags: bandwidth, business, Linux, qos, roadrunner, upgrade

{ 0 comments }

Daily del.icio.us for July 12th through July 14th

July 14, 2008

visualvm: Home - VisualVM is a visual tool integrating several commandline JDK tools and lightweight profiling capabilities. Designed for both production and development time use, it further enhances the capability of monitoring and performance analysis for the Java SE pl Comparison of 2 Java Excel Apis on Large Workbooks/Worksheets - Ramblings of a Java Developer - Essentially what I did was to compare the Apache POI HSSF Api and the JExcelApi. iPhone: The New Personal Computer - ReadWriteWeb - Increasingly, desktops and laptops will be for professional computing. iPhone and its descendants will be our new personal computer. This is an exciting page in the history of our technology. It's the start of an era: ubiquitous, portable, personal comput Our Electric Future — The American, A Magazine of Ideas - A policy that favors sticky energy with multiple sources and that aggressively moves vehicles first toward dual-fuel mode and ultimately to running on just electricity provides the answer stevenf.com - Don't use FTP - FTP has served us well, but it's time to move on. You wouldn't use a 23 year old computer to do your work, so don't use a protocol from the same vintage. Demand modern transfer protocols from your host. How to Install Media Codecs for Flash, DVD, QuickTime (MOV), MP3, WMV, WMA, and ACC (MP4, M4A) Playback in Linux [Ubuntu Guide] : Zaphu - Due to copyrights, Ubuntu (currently Hardy Heron 8.04) is distributed without codecs to play many of the most prevalent media formats. This guide shows you how. Slipstream - On a Small Screen, Just the Salient Stuff - NYTimes.com - Visiting Web sites that have been redesigned for the iPhone is often a quicker and more pleasing experience than it is on those increasingly cinema-style desktop displays, which routinely have 20-inch or larger screens. Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmer's Guide - This book is a tutorial and reference for the Ruby programming language. Use Ruby, and you'll write better code, be more productive, and enjoy programming more. Political Irony › If today’s Congress presided during Watergate - If today’s Congress presided during Watergate TV Review - 'Generation Kill' - In ‘Generation Kill’ Comrades in Chaos Invade Iraq - Review - NYTimes.com - “Generation Kill,” an HBO seven-part mini-series about the invasion of Iraq that begins on Sunday, is bold, uncompromising and oddly diffident. Java Sorting: Comparator vs Comparable Tutorial - Computerized World - This article will discuss the java.lang.Comparator and java.lang.Comparable in details with a set of sample codes for further clarifications. theJavaJar.com - Groovy, Grails and JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA - he JetGroovy plugin does a great job of exposing a new Groovy developer to an environment that most seasoned Java developers are already accustomed to.

Tags: apache, apple, book, books, business, cars, codecs, coding, computer, computers, design, development, economics, economy, electricity, Energy, environment, excel, flash, ftp, green, groovy, hbo, Humor, idea, intellij, internet, iphone, java, jetbrains, jetgroovy, jexcelapi, Linux, media, mobile, monitoring, movie, Music, network, performance, platform, plugin, poi, politics, profiling, programming, rant, reference, Ruby, security, sftp, software, sorting, technology, television, tutorial, ubuntu

{ 0 comments }

Daily del.icio.us for June 29th

July 1, 2008

Sun Bundles MySQL Database, GlassFish App Server — Sun Microsystems — InformationWeek - In one of the first results of its $1 billion purchase of MySQL, Sun Microsystems (NSDQ: JAVA) has packaged the popular open source database with its GlassFish application server and is offering the two as a $65,000-per-year bundle. InfoQ: Mark Little on Transactions, Web Services and REST - In this interview, recorded at QCon London 2008, Red Hat Director of Standards and Technical Development Manager for the SOA platform Mark Little talks about extended transaction models, the history of transaction standardization, their role for web servi ScreenSteps: Rapid Documentation Tool - ScreenSteps takes the drudgery out of creating visual, step-by-step software tutorials/guides. With ScreenSteps you can communicate software instructions clearly and quickly. Vespa: A better MVC » Semicolon - Vespa is a refinement of the old MVC (Model View Controller) architectural pattern that better reflects how Web applications actually work. I have refined the basic MVC pattern in light of typical usage patterns I’ve encountered Featured Windows Download: iSpring Converts PowerPoint Presentations to Flash Video - Freeware PowerPoint plug-in iSpring converts your PowerPoint presentation to an interactive Flash video with the click of a button. The exported movie even preserves all of your slide transitions, animations, and hyperlinks Google Code Blog: OAuth Available for Google Data APIs - We love open standards, and we've just added support for a new one: OAuth is now supported on all of the APIs. OAuth is an open standard for authentication that allows applications to authenticate users without ever directly handling usernames/passwords InfoQ: Kilim - actors and message passing in Java - Kilim is a message-passing framework for Java that claims provides ultra-lightweight threads and facilities for fast, safe, zero-copy messaging between these threads. Andrew Peters' Blog » Blog Archive » My Language of the Year - Erlang is important because it combines both functional and concurrency-oriented programming models in a very powerful way. Specifically, it turns out that the Erlang approach is ideal for harnessing the power of multi-core CPUs. dragtable - Drag and drop HTML table headers to reorder columns using a simple interface similar to sorttable. - Once you include this script, you can give an HTML table drag-and-drop reorderable columns by setting "class=draggable". dragtable can be combined with sorttable by setting 'class="draggable sortable"', thus producing highly interactive HTML tables

Tags: ajax, appserver, architecture, authentication, capture, concurrency, conversion, css, design+patterns, development, documentation, drag, erlang, flash, framework, freeware, functional, glassfish, google, howto, html, infoq, J2EE, java, javascript, kilim, lifehacks, Linux, MVC, mysql, oauth, OOD, powerpoint, presentation, programming, redhat, rest, scalability, screencapture, security, software, sort, sun, table, tools, transactions, tutorial, vespa, video, webservices

{ 0 comments }

Netflix Player by Roku - Internet TV done right

June 30, 2008

I just want to say that if the future of Internet TV is anything like the Netflix Player by Roku, we are going to be just fine. I was one of the lucky ones who ordered the Netflix Player by Roku right away and have had the opportunity to play with it for the last few weeks. I absolutely love my Netflix player box – unequivocally If you haven't heard anything about the Netflix player, it is a little hardware device (box) that allows instant streaming direct to your TV over the Internet.

The box, made by Roku is a $99.99 one-time purchase which connects to your existing broadband (wired or wireless) connection and allows you to instantly watch content from Netflix web site. This box plugs into the same infrastructure over at Netflix that lets you watch streaming movies and TV shows on your PC. The nice thing is that this is part of your standard Netflix membership and there are no extra monthly charges. The same flat fee DVDs you receive are not impacted by your instant streaming. The Netflix/Roku box connects to any TV using HDMI, component, s-video, composite or good old RCA and you get full DVD video quality if your bandwidth permits.

: Netflix Player & Remote

: Netflix Player - Rear View

: Netflix Player - Front View

: Netflix Player unboxing - IV

: Netflix Player unboxing - III

: Netflix Player unboxing - II

: Netflix Player unboxing - I

I've had the pleasure of using this box and I have been completely and totally impressed with the design of box, the software and the actual quality of the content being streamed. Setup/installation was incredibly easy and I was able to get the box to connect to my WPA secured wireless network in seconds. The first thing the box did was download an update from Netflix and automatically update itself – nice feature. Once the box was up and running, I was able to link the Netflix box to my online Netflix account and anything in my 'Watch Instantly' queue was available for viewing on my TV. So I start watching Blade Runner and it's almost an hour before I realize that I'm not watching a DVD on my TV and it's actually being streamed live over the Internet. The picture and sound quality is unbelievable and rewind/fast-forward is decent with the little time-series snapshot of scenes to help gauge how far or back you're going. The box supports HD but Netflix doesn't support that at the moment but I fully anticipate Netflix enabling that feature as they build up a bigger library of on-demand material that is of HD quality.

I only have two complaints with the box and I think one of them will probably be handled in a software update. The first one is the lack of a power button – Once the box is plugged in and turned on, you cannot turn it off. There is no OFF button on the box or the remote and that's just annoying. There is a little light that's always on and it's not blindingly bright or anything but I would like to be able to turn it off. The second missing feature is the lack of Closed Captioning – I think this is a big miss and a must for me as I'm often watching movies late at night while my wife and daughter are sleeping. I can live without the power button but I really want Closed Captioning enabled in the next software release – please!!

In closing, I cannot stress how good the quality of the picture is and I haven't had a single issue with video glitches or slowness or pauses while it's buffering or anything like that. I've seen several long movies along with the most of the first season of Heroes and I haven't had a single issue. I do have a nice broadband connection with 15 Mbps down and 1 Mbp up but that's fairly standard these days and Netflix recommends about 3-4 Mbps for the service. The other nice thing about this box and the use of the Flash memory is that it doesn't have a fan and so its whisper quiet. I am also excited about the future as this box runs on a embedded Linux OS and Roku has released a lot (if not all) of the code under GPL. I can't wait for all the mods/patched kernels and apps that are going to surface in the coming weeks and months.

Tags: internettv, iptv, Linux, netflix, roku, streaming, video

{ 1 comment }

Daily del.icio.us for May 20th through May 24th

May 24, 2008

Computing | Down on the server farm | Economist.com - One day soon, these “virtual machines” may migrate to wherever computing power is cheapest, or energy is greenest. Then computing will have become a true utility—and it will no longer be apt to talk of computing clouds, so much as of a computing atm InfoQ: Integrate Flex with Spring Framework - A key to project success is creating an architecture that new developers can rapidly integrate themselves into and begin to be productive on day 1. Flex with Spring, iBATIS, & Cairngorm help me to quickly produce a patterned- based, repeatable architectur New Adventures in Software » Visual SourceSafe: A Public Service Announcement - “Visual SourceSafe? It would be safer to print out all your code, run it through a shredder, and set it on fire.” - (Attributed to an unidentified Microsoft employee). SSIS Junkie : SSIS: Suggested Best Practices and naming conventions - I thought it would be worth publishing a list of guidelines that I see as SSIS development best practices. These are my own opinions and are based upon my experience of using SSIS over the past 18 months. I am not saying you should take them as gospel but IntelliJ IDEA Blog » Blog Archive » Neal Ford Advises on Boosting Developer’s Productivity - Neal tells you how you can become more accustomed with the shortcuts, get used to using them in the daily routine, and demonstrates the magic of different key combinations while coding with IntelliJ IDEA. Twitter Technology Blog: Twittering About Architecture - Twitter is, fundamentally, a messaging system. Twitter was not architected as a messaging system, however. For expediency's sake, Twitter was built with technologies and practices that are more appropriate to a content management system Enterprise Java Community: Extending Spring LDAP with an iBATIS-style XML Data Mapper - This article explains how to extend Spring-LDAP with an iBATIS-style XML Data Mapper to access LDAP data through intuitive JavaBean operations. About - XML Hammer - The XML Hammer application is a free and open-source tool that simplifies elementary XML actions like checking for well-formedness, validation, transformation and xpath searches using any JAXP implementation. Novell, Red Hat upgrade Linux offerings - LinuxWorld - Novell released SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 Service Pack 2 (SP2), while Red Hat shipped Version 5.2 of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Both vendors added improvements on the desktop and the server. There were many areas of overlap, especially with virtualization. JasperReports: 3.0.0 released - JasperReports, the market leading open source business intelligence and reporting engine. This project is being moved to http://www.jasperforge.org/. This project is the home for all things Jasper, Reports, Analysis, Server, and Intelligence.

Tags: analysis, architecture, bestpractices, bi, business, cloud, cloudcomputing, DAO, database, datawarehouse, development, environment, etl, flex, freeware, google, iBATIS, idea7, infrastructure, integration, intellij, internet, J2EE, jasper, java, ldap, Linux, messaging, novell, opensource, parser, performance, platform, productivity, programming, redhat, reporting, RHEL5, ria, scalability, scaling, sourcecontrol, sourcesafe, spring, SpringFramework, sqlserver, ssis, suse, svn, technology, tool, twitter, virtualization, vss, Web2.0, xensource, xml, xpath, xslt

{ 0 comments }

Daily del.icio.us for May 16th through May 18th

May 18, 2008

Google Doctype - Documenting the Open Web - Google Doctype is an open encyclopedia and reference library. Written by web developers, for web developers. It includes articles on web security, JavaScript DOM manipulation, CSS tips and tricks, and more. The reference section includes a growing library Testability Explorer - TestabilityExplorer.org records the testability scores for many open source and commercial Java libraries. The compiled bytecode for the library is analyzed and metrics are calculated for the testability of individual classes. Those classes fall into one Brandon Werner » Blog Archive » ACM Article: How Intuitive is Object Oriented Design? - There is an incredible article that was published in the Communications of the ACM entitled “How Intuitive is Object Oriented Design?” by Irit Hadar from the University of Haifa, Israel and Uri Leron from the Israeli Institute of Technology. It goes t cloudtools - Google Code - Cloud Tools is a set of tools for deploying and testing Java EE applications on Amazon's Elastic Computing Cloud (EC2). Wind power, alternative energy | Salon News - A stunning new report just issued by the Bush administration finds that for under 2 cents a day per household, Americans could get 300 gigawatts of wind by 2030 which would reduce carbon dioxide emissions from electricity generation by 25 percent in 2030. InfoQ: Getting Started with Grails - In this presentation from QCon San Francisco 2007, Jason Rudolph gives an overview and demonstration of Grails. Topics covered include Java/Grails integration, Grails plugins, creating a complete Grails sample application from scratch, the structure of a Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen - 11 Top Tips for a Successful Technical Presentation - 11 Top Tips for a Successful Technical Presentation peterpascale.com » TeamCity Lessons Learned (Build Trophy For Sale) - In honor of four months of successful TeamCity usage - I offer this set of TeamCity lessons learned: SpringSource Team Blog » Why should I care about OSGi anyway? - Michael Burke asked a great question on that thread which can be paraphrased as "forgetting the hype surrounding OSGi, what benefits can I expect to see if I port an application currently packaged as an EAR to OSGi bundles? Linux On A Stick: Fedora 9 Puts Your Desktop on a USB Drive - This week's release of the Fedora 9 Linux distribution makes putting a full-fledged desktop on a portable USB thumb drive a three-click affair. Even better, you don't need Linux installed to create it, you can leave the data on your thumb drive untouched,

Tags: amazon, article, aws, blog, build, cloudcomputing, cloudtalk, Cluster, continuous-integration, cruisecontrol, css, ec2, economics, Energy, fedora, google, grails, groovy, hosting, howto, html, idea, infoq, intellij, J2EE, java, javascript, lifehacker, Linux, maven, methodology, mockobjects, oo, OOD, osgi, politics, powerpoint, presentation, presentations, productivity, programming, reference, s3, screencast, software, speaking, spring, teamcity, technology, testing, tips, tutorial, unix, usb, virtualization, web, wiki

{ 0 comments }

Daily del.icio.us for April 22nd through April 25th

April 25, 2008

Bonus Quote of the Day — Political Wire - "The Clintons know that she can?t win this. But they?'re hell-bound to make it impossible for Obama to win." Thank you, Javascript - The Daily WTF - Javascript supports octal numbers. Any number starting with a zero is octal, even if it can't be an actual octal number. In certain languages, like Perl, trying to use a non-octal number as an octal number results in an error. In other languages, like Jav Screencast #1 - Amazon EC2 plugin for IntelliJ | Elastic Grid Blog - Here is a screencast demonstration the use of the Amazon EC2 plugin for IntelliJ IDEA a little madness » Ext Discovers Step 2 of the Slashdot Business Model? - The saddest part about this is that the Ext team really have built a fantastic library, and a vibrant community around it. The library had all the hallmarks of an open source success story. Now, however, Ext have committed the cardinal sin of an open sour Application Development Trends - SpringSource Enterprise Edition Now Live - The new SpringSource Enterprise Edition product is specifically designed to support large organizations, providing enterprise-class tools and features. The product aims to meet enterprise requirements by being "certified, warranted and indemnified,". Sun looks to free up the rest of Java | The Industry Standard - By freeing these up, Java can be fully open-source and thus be packaged more easily with Linux distributions. In conjunction with this activity, Sun is talking with Linux distributors, including OpenSuse, Ubuntu and Fedora to have them offer an updated ve Windows Server 2008 Now 'PHP Ready' - Microsoft and Zend have worked together on Zend Core, Zend's tested, certified and supported version of PHP. Zend Core and PHP are now certified for Windows Server 2008. InfoQ: Comparing JEE Servers - When picking which JEE server to use for your application, you have a number of choices to select from. Knowing which application server is the best is key. Jonathan Campbell took a handful of JEE application servers, and came up with surprising results Ext JS - Blog - Ext JS is pleased to announce the latest release of the Ext JS toolkit and the introduction of a new product, Ext GWT 1.0 (beta 1). The Ext JS version has been updated to 2.1 and includes new components, performance improvements, bug fixes and more. Ajaxian » Ext JS 2.1 Released - Ext JS 2.1 has been released. In this point release the featured changes are: Full REST support, Added Ext.StatusBar Component and Samples, Ext.Slider Component and Samples, Example to demonstrate Remote Loading of Component Configs, Grid Filtering Sample

Tags: ajax, amazon, component, date, ec2, enterprise, ExtGWT, extjs, fedora, foss, framework, glassfish, gwt, idea, intellij, interesting, J2EE, java, javascript, jboss, library, license, Linux, microsoft, news, obama, octal, OpenJDK, opensource, php, politics, programming, review, server, spring2.0, SpringFramework, ubuntu, WebLogic, window, windows2008, zend

{ 0 comments }

Daily del.icio.us for April 20th through April 22nd

April 22, 2008

InfoQ: Top 10 Mistakes when building Flex Applications - In this post, Adobe’s James Ward teams up with InfoQ.com to bring you another Flex Top 10 (our most recent Flex Top 10). Flex is an open source application development framework for building rich Internet applications that run in the web with Flash Play InfoQ: IntelliJ IDEA Supports Flex Development - JetBrains' IntelliJ IDEA is one of Java developers' the most favorite development IDEs. The recent IntelliJ IDEA 7.0.3 release includes some new features supports Flex application development. To understand how Flex RIA developers can utilize InitelliJ's IntelliJ IDEA Blog » Blog Archive » Type Renderers - I’d like to tell you about one of the IntelliJ IDEA features - type renderers. They provide you the ability to customize how objects are displayed in the debugger, offering “logic-oriented” presentation of data vs. structure-oriented as it is by def Cloud Security: Where is Your Computer Today? - A new blog that launched last week–Cloud Security–is devoted to looking at the security issues of cloud computing, which encompasses grid computing, utility computing, software as a service, storage in the cloud, and virtualization Cloud Computing. Available at Amazon.com Today. - Key in your Amazon ID and password and behold: a data center's worth of computing power carved into megabyte-sized chunks and wired straight to your desktop. Clones of that HP tower cost 10 cents per hour — 10 cents! Why 'no Macs' is no longer a defensible IT strategy | InfoWorld | Analysis | 2008-04-21 | By Galen Gruman - According to NPD Research, Apple's share of the retail market has climbed to 14 percent as of February 2008. Gartner and IDC report that the Mac's share in the U.S. as of March 31 was 6.6 percent. The Norway Vote - What really happened « Topic Maps and All That - The process which led to Norway’s Yes vote on OOXML was so surrealistic that it deserves to be recorded for posterity. Here’s my version of the story. For AT&T, U-Verse Is Picking Up Steam - GigaOM - UBS’s John Hodulik, one of the best telecom analysts, has pegged AT&T as his top pick for this earnings seasons and is expecting some good tidings from Ma Bell. What caught my eye in his note was the progress made by AT&T’s IPTV effort, U-Verse. Virtualization: VMware, Xen, or VirtualBox? (by Jeremy Zawodny) - I wish to virtualize my computer life. However, I face an abundance of choices from which you will help me select the right one. What are the pros and cons here? And are there other solutions worthy of consideration? /var/log/mind » Blog Archive » Turbocharge your string keyed hashmaps - In most most situations the possible universe of keys in the hashmap are known upfront either when writing the code or when starting up the application. If instead of creating hard coded strings or by using various string key parameters from say an XML fi

Tags: actionscript, adobe, air, amazon, apple, aws, blog, business, cloudcomputing, Cluster, datacenter, development, ec2, ecma, flash, flex, foss, hashmap, ide, idea, intellij, internet, iptv, iso, java, jetbrains, Linux, mac, microsoft, mxml, networking, norway, ooxml, performance, politics, programming, ria, s3, security, standards, telecom, tips, tools, UVerse, virtualization, virtualpc, vmware, Web2.0, windows, xensource

{ 0 comments }

Daily del.icio.us for April 17th through April 19th

April 19, 2008

Canada Likely to Label Plastic Ingredient ‘Toxic’ - New York Times - The Canadian government is said to be ready to declare bisphenol-a, or B.P.A. as a toxic chemical. It is widely used in plastics for baby bottles, beverage and food containers as well as linings in food cans. Jodd Library -Proxetta - Proxetta is all about dynamic proxies. Using just Java. In the same way you would code it by yourself. And the only dependency is Jodd & Asm library. Census for open-source apps kicks off - CNET News.com - Open-source management company OpenLogic, IDC and Unisys launched the Open Source Census. The project is based around a tool, OSS Discovery, that scans systems for known open-source projects and anonymously submits the data to an OpenLogic database. Process Monitor - Process Monitor is an advanced monitoring tool for Windows that shows real-time file system, Registry and process/thread activity. It combines the features of two legacy Sysinternals utilities, Filemon and Regmon MySQL adoption: Deep and wide | The Open Road - The Business and Politics of Open Source by Matt Asay - CNET Blogs - I love this anecdote from Jonathan Schwartz's blog. As is demonstrated again and again, enterprises have no idea just how awash in open-source software they are…until they ask. Java Community News - Rod Johnson's Predictions for Enterprise Java - In a series of predictions for the future of Java EE, Rod Johnson, founder of the Spring project, shares his opinions on de facto versus de jure standards, the role of the JCP, and on why Java EE 6 will usher in renewed app server competition. Amazon Web Services gets serious about enterprise | Software as Services | ZDNet.com - It now seems that Amazon is moving aggressively to make its cloud computing services palatable for enterprise users — not surprising, given that enterprises including The New York Times and Nasdaq are now customers Google delivers; Maybe paid clicks weren’t such a big deal | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com - Google on Thursday allayed concerns about its paid click growth rate with first quarter earnings that topped Wall Street’s expectations. Google reported first quarter net income of $1.31 billion, or $4.12 a share, on revenue of $5.19 billion. Red Hat News | What’s Going On With Red Hat Desktop Systems? An Update - Red Hat team notes that they will not be working on a consumer version of their Linux product in the foreseeable future, instead focusing on enterprise software. Hiring the Rowing-Forward 30% - His anecdotal "70% Rowing Backwards" sounds roughly right to me, and it bothers me a lot. Studies show that programmers derive their primary satisfaction by being productive, so such an environment sounds downright depressing. But managers obviously don't

Tags: amazon, AOP, aws, best-practices, bpa, business, career, cglib, debug, desktop, developer, earnings, ec2, enterprise, freeware, funny, google, hiring, idc, interview, J2EE, java, jboss, jcp, library, Linux, microsoft, mock, mysql, openlogic, opensource, plastic, predictions, process, programming, proxy, redhat, revenue, rhel, s3, saas, software, spring, SpringFramework, survey, sysinternals, tools, toxic, ubuntu, Web2.0, webservices, windows

{ 0 comments }

Road Runner vs. U-verse

April 13, 2008

I am one of those people who hate Time Warner (because of the crappy and recently unreliable service) that can't wait for Verizon FOIS or AT&T U-verse or anything faster to show up in my neighborhood. My dream Internet provider for home would be what people in Europe have - 50Mbps connections but I'll settle for Verizon's Faster Plus services that claims to provide 15 Mbps download and 15 Mbps upload. But Verizon is slowly rolling this out and I am not going to get this for a couple of years. AT&T U-verse is my only salvation as they are slowly offering service in my neighborhood and their Max plan would work for me. U-verse Max offers 10 Mbps download and 1.5 Mbps upload and that would just rock but Time Warner has been upping their game in terms of broadband speed (not service or reliability, mind you) and I am currently getting 15Mbsp download and 1Mbps upload.

Bandwidth Test

I just did a bandwidth test and discovered that I am truly getting close to 1 Mbps upstream and that's pretty awesome as I use Mozy for my remote backup and I also use Rsync and Subversion to backup my code and other essentials files to my remote (Linux) server. My current thought is to get the AT&T U-verse service and run it side-by-side with my Road Runner connection for a while and see which one is consistently reliable and faster. I sure hope its AT&T as I would like nothing better than to dump Time Warner.

If you're not using Mozy (or another online backup provider), you should consider getting one!

Tags: backup, bandwidth, broadband, Linux, mozy, speedtest

{ 4 comments }

← Older Entries

Linux

Holy Bandwidth - Take 3

Related posts

Daily del.icio.us for July 12th through July 14th

Related posts

Daily del.icio.us for June 29th

Related posts

Netflix Player by Roku - Internet TV done right

Related posts

Daily del.icio.us for May 20th through May 24th

Related posts

Daily del.icio.us for May 16th through May 18th

Related posts

Daily del.icio.us for April 22nd through April 25th

Related posts

Daily del.icio.us for April 20th through April 22nd

Related posts

Daily del.icio.us for April 17th through April 19th

Related posts

Road Runner vs. U-verse

Related posts

Archives

Infrequent Tweets

Blog Supported By

Tags