According to a new report by Torrent Freak, Cox will soon begin throttling all FTP, Bittorent, Usenet, and possibly other forms of “Non time sensitive” traffic. Although this may or may not effect me as a business customer, I can safely say that I am exited to see Verizon FiOS trucks outside my house stringing fiber onto the telephone poles. In a couple of months I’ll be able to switch.
Cox to Begin Throttling Multiple Protocols: At least I’ll have FiOS Soon
Computers
bandwidth, cox
I missed the screenshot for the bigg one-oh-oh, but the above screenshot gets the point accross. I personally like the easter egg that htop shows when you reach the 100 days of uptime. Notice the (!) to the right of the uptime readout. This is one of the many reasons I love linux…
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Computers, This Site
htop, server, uptime
I’ve been seriously considering getting a pair of Seagate’s 1.5TB drives in order to make a secondary backup of my file server (which is what I back up every other computer to), and I think waiting has paid off. According to Engadget, Western Digital has just begun selling a 2TB hard drive using their “green power” line, the same line that I bought six 1 TB hard drives from. The market price should be around $250, which amounts to 12.5 cents per GB. While this is higher than purchasing two 1 TB hard drives, it does not include the extra SATA ports or electricity needed. This would be an easy way for me to upgrade my storage capacity to 4TB, from the 3TB I have now. As a note, I have used 2 TB of space, with about 8XX GB free.
Computers
A friend of mine was wondering how Port Forwarding works, so I decided to whip up a post to try to explain it (with pictures! …well, diagrams at least).
Let’s start off with a single computer connected directly to the internet (with a cable or DSL modem, or something).
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Computers, How To
nat, port forwarding
I was wondering if there was a way to monitor hard drive use in a terminal the same way it is possible to monitor CPU and RAM usage with top. After a quick search I found a post on the OC Forums that suggests install sysstat, which does exactly what I want. Installation is simple:
sudo apt-get install sysstat
Then run the utility with:
iostat
You can also set it to automatically refresh by putting the number of seconds to refresh in after the command. For example, to refresh every five seconds, type:
iostat 5
Computers, How To
command, hard drive, iostat, terminal
Today marks the first time I have had a computer reach 100 days of uptime. This same system had once made it to 94 days of uptime, but I had to physically move the system to it’s current location. The above screenshot was taken a few minutes ago from my IPCOP firewall/router and demonstrates just how reliable linux can be. My webserver that is hosting all of my websites (and physically located imediately bellow my router) is on it’s 88th day of uptime. I’ll post again when my web server reaches it’s first 100 days of uptime as well. I wonder how much power it has consumed in those 100 days…
Computers, This Site
ipcop, linux, uptime
My 4850×2 was running hotter than I am comfortable with under linux because the fan was set to the lowest speed. After a quick Google search I found a fourm talking about using aticonfig to solve the problem. As it turns out, the command is very simple:
aticonfig –pplib-cmd “set fanspeed 0 100″
where 0 is the card identifier and 100 is the % you want the fan speed to run at.
Computers
ati, heat, speed, Video
I ran across this when I had the yahoo home page open. I found it humorous.
Humor
Humor
Three out of four of my video outputs are now in use… hopefully I can add a fourth monitor soon.
Computers
computer, LCD