Archive for the 'Internet' Category

Is Firefox 3 really *that* different ?

Tuesday, August 5th, 2008

I was invited to web conference today. I spend a lot of time in web conferences and phone conferences. This one was being hosted on the Sametime Unyte service (formerly WebDialogs). I was connecting from a new machine so I ran the “system test tool” It said I had the right browser, JVM, plugin, and […]

Large scale server management via xmpp chat ?

Sunday, August 3rd, 2008

When I read this article, it was one of those; “Oh, that is too obvious - why didn’t I think of that !?”
… our use of XMPP for Command & Control could also be refitted to act as a cluster / machine monitor. The cool part of XMPP is it acts as both a presence […]

Being big *and* funny

Thursday, July 17th, 2008

It’s nice to see big companies can still have a sense of humor … Who has such humor ? If you’ve never seen this error, you can search for it to find out who gives you a chuckle when the chips are down.

Visitors - near and far

Monday, July 7th, 2008

I took a look at my blog’s statistics for June. I’m not sure what has been so interesting to the Italians … ?

 
Countries
 
Pages
Hits
Bandwidth

Italy
it
49710
49894
83.76 MB

United States
us
16080
40003
583.54 MB

Unknown
ip
509
1714
31.27 MB

European country
eu
361
1104
18.95 MB

Great Britain
gb
280
863
13.60 MB

Canada
ca
173
756
11.82 MB

Brazil
br
167
277
6.53 MB

Australia
au
160
718
10.12 MB

Germany
de
100
365
4.80 MB

Netherlands
nl
99
481
10.20 MB

Spain
es
77
327
7.29 MB

Denmark
dk
62
129
1.93 MB

Sweden
se
58
160
2.68 MB

France
fr
32
116
1.77 MB

Taiwan
tw
26
96
806.70 KB

Singapore
sg
24
104
1.13 MB

South Africa
za
24
82
1.50 MB

Poland
pl
24
91
1.35 MB

Austria
at
23
73
1.38 MB

Hong Kong
hk
22
101
1016.82 KB

Switzerland
ch
21
85
1.42 MB

Croatia
hr
19
89
2.11 MB

Hungary
hu
17
51
1.07 MB

Mexico
mx
16
95
1.23 MB

Portugal
pt
14
43
843.97 KB

Czech Republic
cz
14
40
667.48 KB

Finland
fi
14
41
703.90 […]

Extending the wireless network without “jumping the shark”

Saturday, July 5th, 2008

I’ve been trying to find ways to extend my wireless network to the backyard and possible to the adjacent building. There have been three great challenges: (1) I don’t want to buy any more networking gear while I am renting; (2) the rental has limited - aka old - infrastructure; and (3) I want to […]