NETWORK: FIOS is waiting for an invite to play along?

Saturday, October 1, 2011

Last login: Thu Sep 29 08:16:27 on ttys000

ferdinand-reinkes-macbook-air:~ reinkefj$ traceroute legacy.com

traceroute to legacy.com (64.29.209.53), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets

1 192.168.2.1 (192.168.2.1) 2.182 ms 1.029 ms 1.036 ms

2 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1) 1.804 ms 1.662 ms 1.564 ms

3 l100.nwrknj-vfttp-142.verizon-gni.net (173.54.118.1) 9.966 ms 10.157 ms 10.182 ms

4 g14-0-5-1342.nwrknj-lcr-03.verizon-gni.net (130.81.146.210) 11.384 ms 10.288 ms 9.350 ms

5 130.81.29.192 (130.81.29.192) 11.378 ms * *

6 0.so-7-1-0.xl3.ewr6.alter.net (152.63.17.141) 11.219 ms 11.654 ms 8.044 ms

7 0.ge-7-3-0.xl3.mia4.alter.net (152.63.1.110) 54.991 ms 55.924 ms 55.475 ms

8 0.gigabitethernet4-0-0.gw9.mia4.alter.net (152.63.81.165) 56.610 ms 56.595 ms 55.118 ms

9 splicetelecom-gw.customer.alter.net (63.65.188.30) 60.230 ms 61.798 ms 58.155 ms

10 g0-7-0-0.br2.mia.terremark.net (66.165.161.74) 75.413 ms 75.862 ms 78.487 ms

11 t0-7-0-1.br2.dfw3.terremark.net (66.165.161.230) 73.765 ms 74.308 ms 74.614 ms

12 g0-5-0-1.br1.dfw3.terremark.net (66.165.161.237) 73.760 ms 72.505 ms 72.477 ms

13 66.165.161.34 (66.165.161.34) 74.895 ms 96.776 ms 74.905 ms

14 66.165.160.94 (66.165.160.94) 74.315 ms 74.715 ms 75.395 ms

15 64.29.192.169 (64.29.192.169) 74.479 ms 73.667 ms 73.206 ms

16 legacy.com (64.29.209.53) 74.099 ms 74.647 ms 78.211 ms

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ferdinand-reinkes-macbook-air:~ reinkefj$ traceroute legacy.com

traceroute to legacy.com (64.29.209.53), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets

1 * * *

2 * 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1) 4.325 ms 1.766 ms

3 l100.nwrknj-vfttp-142.verizon-gni.net (173.54.118.1) 7.405 ms 9.316 ms 12.011 ms

4 g14-0-5-1342.nwrknj-lcr-03.verizon-gni.net (130.81.146.210) 43.334 ms * 9.774 ms

5 so-6-0-1-0.nwrk-bb-rtr1.verizon-gni.net (130.81.29.192) 9.888 ms 7.858 ms 9.550 ms

6 0.so-7-1-0.xl3.ewr6.alter.net (152.63.17.141) 9.036 ms 9.648 ms 7.047 ms

7 0.ge-7-3-0.xl3.mia4.alter.net (152.63.1.110) 55.140 ms 55.427 ms 85.065 ms

8 0.gigabitethernet4-0-0.gw9.mia4.alter.net (152.63.81.165) 56.946 ms 66.278 ms 58.106 ms

9 splicetelecom-gw.customer.alter.net (63.65.188.30) 57.717 ms 58.689 ms 60.307 ms

10 g0-7-0-0.br2.mia.terremark.net (66.165.161.74) 76.709 ms 76.813 ms 81.045 ms

11 t0-7-0-1.br2.dfw3.terremark.net (66.165.161.230) 76.421 ms 103.590 ms 72.552 ms

12 g0-5-0-1.br1.dfw3.terremark.net (66.165.161.237) 74.357 ms 74.819 ms *

13 66.165.161.34 (66.165.161.34) 74.476 ms 79.334 ms 72.652 ms

14 66.165.160.94 (66.165.160.94) 74.853 ms 74.175 ms 76.947 ms

15 64.29.192.169 (64.29.192.169) 72.631 ms * 73.467 ms

16 legacy.com (64.29.209.53) 73.761 ms 74.728 ms 75.582 ms

ferdinand-reinkes-macbook-air:~ reinkefj$

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SERVICE: Anyone else seeing problems with GMAIL?

Thursday, September 29, 2011

Lately, I’ve been noticing poor response times from GMAIL, but not GREADER?

Strange.

Could the vaunted Google email infrastructure have problems?

A lot of folks have organized their personal lives and corporate careers around free Google apps like GMAIL.

Is their a chink in that armor?

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HARDWARE: Smarter roads?

Wednesday, September 28, 2011

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2011/09/27/massapequa-park-to-use-sensors-to-detect-illegally-parked-vehicles/

Massapequa Park To Use Sensors To Detect Illegally Parked Vehicles
Mayor Insists Move Has Nothing To Do With Money, But Villagers Not Impressed
September 27, 2011 9:37 PM

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MASSAPEQUA PARK, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) – Be careful where you decide to park your car.

Massapequa Park will be the first Long Island municipality to use electronic sensors embedded in the street to detect illegally parked vehicles.

Police can quickly slap a $25 fine on the vehicle after the wireless discs notify them of the violation by transmitting a signal to the officers’ cellphones.

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Of course, it has everything to do with money.

But, this brings up an interesting opportunity.

Why can’t cars be instrumented to help the drivers. For example:

(1) Why couldn’t the sensors broadcast a priority message to the car’s radio informing the driver? As opposed to just facilitating a ticket.

(2) Why don’t we have a whole class of infrastructure that makes roads “smarter”? I seem to spend a lot of time sitting at red lights with no cross traffic. Maybe we need a “go on red at your own risk”?

(3) Why don’t roadways “broadcast” their parameters? For example, speed limits should be transmitted to a dashboard gadget; no speed limit signs would be needed. For example, “wrong way” should trigger a dashboard audible alert “stop”.

(4) Why don’t we have inter car communication?

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HARDWARE: Don’t trust driving directions

Sunday, September 25, 2011

http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/09/24/2346222/IBM-Seeks-Patent-On-Retailer-Rigged-Driving-Routes

IBM Seeks Patent On Retailer-Rigged Driving Routes
Posted by timothy on Saturday September 24, @07:46PM
from the go-here-you’ll-like-it dept.

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theodp writes

“On IBM’s Smarter Planet, you may drive further than need be to get to your destination. Big Blue’s pending patent for Determining Travel Routes by Using Fee-Based Location Preferences calls for the likes of Walmart, Starbucks, and Best Buy pay a fee in return for having your route calculation service de-optimize driving instructions to make you do a drive-by of their stores, and an additional fee if GPS tracking of your car indicates you actually took the suboptimal route. The same IBM inventors also have a patent pending for Environmental Stewardship Based on Driving Behavior, which calls for yet another fee to be assessed when a retailer-friendly-but-suboptimal route causes your vehicle to enter a congested area and produce more pollution.”

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Wow, if it’s not ONSTAR selling your data, then it’s routing you the “wrong” way.

Seems like a FTC, FCC, DOJ, FBI, and SEC might take an interest in this one.

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HARDWARE: Parking meters are a sign of a strategy

Sunday, September 25, 2011

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/19/nyregion/uprooting-the-old-familiar-parking-meter.html?_r=1

The Last Days of the Old Parking Meter

By MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM

Published: September 18, 2011

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The city will remove its last decommissioned single-space parking meter in Manhattan on Monday, transportation officials said, the start of a yearlong process that will eventually eliminate all the steel-and-sludge-hued meters in the city.

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The old-fashioned, pole-mounted meter will now yield to the robotlike Meter of Tomorrow: a solar-powered box, equipped with Wi-Fi, that can handle eight parking spaces at once and can shut itself down on free-parking Sundays.

The city’s Transportation Department, which recently accelerated its meter retirement program, says the change will benefit city and citizen alike: the new meters read credit cards, speak seven languages, require less maintenance, and free up room on the sidewalk.

But the death of the classic meter also means an end to some of New York’s smaller pleasures: the satisfying clunk of a coin in its slot, the illicit thrill of finding an extra few minutes still counting down.

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This hardware upgrade demonstrates that the strategy is raising revenue; nothing else.

Parking meters were originally intended to ration limited parking so that a spot couldn’t be tied up all day.

Europeans solved this with a plastic “sundial”. The driver upon parking would put the “sundial” on the dashboard after dialing in the current time. If you cheated and dialed in a later time, then you risk a ticket. If you overstayed, then you risked a ticket.

Zero capital investment; simplicity.

Argh!

Not all hardware upgrades are worth it. If you’re rationing parking spaces, you could use “sundials”. But if you’re raising revenue, then it’s not enough. The upgrade should be issuing tickets. This doesn’t.

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SERVICE: “mouse to spouse”

Saturday, September 24, 2011

Read a fellow alum’s blog. It was too personal to link to. but she used an interesting turn of a phrase … “mouse to spouse”. Referring to the various dating sites. Having just attended a wedding that started with an internet chat, maybe she needs to rethink that disgust with such services.

Now I’m not shopping for a “spouse”, but a “mouse” might not be a bad way to go. As an ITSJ (sic), it fits my predilection.

To stay in my “mole hole” and pound away at the keyboard.

Argh!

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NETWORK: What do you do when the inet doesn’t inet

Friday, September 23, 2011

http://www.irishcentral.com/

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ferdinand-reinkes-macbook-air:~ reinkefj$ tracert http://www.irishcentral.com

-bash: tracert: command not found

ferdinand-reinkes-macbook-air:~ reinkefj$ traceroute http://www.irishcentral.com/

traceroute to http://www.irishcentral.com/ (67.215.65.132), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets

1 192.168.2.1 (192.168.2.1) 1.725 ms 1.114 ms 1.281 ms

2 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1) 2.185 ms 5.412 ms 3.534 ms

3 l100.nwrknj-vfttp-142.verizon-gni.net (173.54.118.1) 8.548 ms 6.758 ms 8.521 ms

4 g14-0-5-1442.nwrknj-lcr-04.verizon-gni.net (130.81.146.236) 9.607 ms 7.261 ms 7.487 ms

5 so-6-0-1-0.nwrk-bb-rtr2.verizon-gni.net (130.81.29.194) 13.408 ms 7.395 ms 7.574 ms

6 0.so-7-0-0.xl4.ewr6.alter.net (152.63.20.13) 17.648 ms 11.947 ms 12.394 ms

7 0.so-6-0-2.xl4.iad8.alter.net (152.63.0.130) 17.047 ms 52.156 ms 17.317 ms

8 pos7-0.gw4.iad8.alter.net (152.63.41.33) 17.796 ms 19.431 ms 17.285 ms

9 65.222.158.82 (65.222.158.82) 19.852 ms 22.606 ms 20.081 ms

10 * * *

11 * * *

12 * * *

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Sort of like calling an old friend who’s cross country and the number just rings off the hook. Or they “go AWOL” from FACEBOOK or email.

Argh!

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TECHNOLOGY: An ereader or IPAD as a survival tool

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

http://lewrockwell.com/spl3/long-term-survival-tool.html

The One Long-Term Survival Tool Everyone Forgets
The Survival Mom

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We have three Kindles, and a hand cranked charger that will charge them and our MP3 player. A hand crank charger is dirt cheap, easily repaired if it breaks and takes up almost zero room (as usual, I am not affiliated with this site or product in any way, merely a happy customer). Two of the Kindles have yet more manuals on them, with duplication of the vital ones.

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I’m not so sure about the need for “entertainment” when the world is falling down around your ears.

But, I did note that Orthodox Jews have the entire Talmud, other sacred writings, and all sorts of utilities (i.e., concordances, vocabularies, dictionaries, etc. etc) on an IPAD.

Her point might be more accurately that it is possible to have the wisdom of the world on a Faraday enclosed electronic.

While technology is never cheap (i.e., matches are more expensive than Tom Hanks’ two sticks on the island), sometimes it’s “cheap” as compared to the alternative (i.e., ignorance).

imho!

I’d suggest the ipad as less “locked in” than a kindle, but that’s merely a technical opinion.

Her opinion notwithstanding, it seems like good advice.

Besides what are you going to do with your worthless fiat paper currency when it’s only value is tinder (i.e., Zimbabwe dollars)?

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TECHNOLOGY: “Great Courses” puts a nail in the over-priced University education

Thursday, September 15, 2011

http://city-journal.org/2011/21_3_the-great-courses.html

HEATHER MAC DONALD
Great Courses, Great Profits
A teaching company gives the public what the academy no longer supplies: a curriculum in the monuments of human thought.

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The canon of great literature, philosophy, and art is thriving—in the marketplace, if not on college campuses. For the last 20 years, a company called the Great Courses has been selling recorded lectures in the humanities and sciences to an adult audience eager to brush up its Shakespeare and its quantum mechanics. The company produces only what its market research shows that customers want. And that, it turns out, is a curriculum in the monuments of human thought, taught without the politically correct superiority and self-indulgent theory common in today’s colleges.

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Here’s a way to get wisdom.

<<Remember I’m a practicioner of dikw (i.e., data, information, knowledge, wisdom). Where “data” is the elemental atom of the paradigm. “Information” is data in context. “Knowledge” is actionable information. “Wisdom” is knowing the implications of knowledge. Nice to know where the world’s edge is!>>

It’s a shame that we waste children’s most productive ages for learning (imho 6-26) by follow an obsolete meme (i.e, Gooferment Skrules).

Argh!

We need to challenge the children by supplementing their education.

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TECHNOLOGY: Solar Bottle Bulb

Tuesday, September 13, 2011

http://www.impactlab.net/2011/09/04/solar-bottle-bulb-a-cheap-and-sustainable-way-to-light-homes/

September 4th, 2011 at 12:52 pm
Solar Bottle Bulb – a cheap and sustainable way to light homes
in: Great New Product, Green Friendly, People Making a Difference, Science & Technology News, Solar Power

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Now a simple innovation called the “Solar Bottle Bulb” is popping out of roofs and illuminating the lives of many.

Fixed into holes in a corrugated iron roof, the “bulb” is a recycled plastic bottle that contains bleached water. Bringing more light than a traditional window that can crack or leak during typhoon season, the bottle bulbs refract the sun’s rays to create 55-watts worth of light.

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Hmmm, a useful idea for any house, garage, or shed?

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