I finally was able to hit my FiOS line’s 1.8 MB/sec maximum, by downloading OpenSolaris from Sun:
Why do I have the feeling that, shortly, this is going to somehow seem slow? I’m already thinking, “Ugh, six minutes? Come on, already!”
Well, I just got my 15 Mbps up/15 Mbps down FiOS installed. And it is cool. How cool? This cool:
The install took about 6 hours; the tech had to run the fiber from the pole to the house, install a box on the outside, install a box in the basement, and run coax from one of the boxes (I’m not yet sure which one) to my office (which is on the second floor), going through the outside wall. He did a great job!
The router that they give you, an Actiontec MI-424WR, seems decent, but it only does 802.11b/g. So I followed these instructions to put it in to bridge mode, hooked up my 802.11n AirPort Extreme, and everything worked great, as evidenced by this picture I just took:
For the record, it took 10 minutes, total, to download that ISO, which breaks down to about 1.17 MB/sec on average. A little bit slower than the speed tests would indicate, but, man, I’ll take it.
Eschewing the fine Evan Series tradition of abandoning blogs without copying their content over, I have indeed import the content from The Evan Series and moved it over here. In addition, all links to evanseries.org will redirect here, which should hopefully make things pretty seamless.
Also, in the same spirit of limited data loss, I’ll be trying to import my old LiveJournal entries in. Be warned: this will cause lots and lots of embarrassing high school angst to show up in the evanseries.org archives. But I’d rather have that stuff in my database than LiveJournal’s.
Uh, never mind about that LiveJournal part. A lot of that stuff is just too embarassing.
Talking Points Memo has a video up with some highlights from Obama’s interview on Fox News Sunday today:
In addition, Greg Sargent at TPM Election Central has provided his take on Obama’s performance, especially as regards a senior Obama advisor saying that Obama would “take Fox on”:
This will likely further dismay liberal bloggers who had worked very hard to get Dems to boycott Fox as a way of deligitimizing the network and who already criticized Obama for agreeing to appear in the first place.
I haven’t been following the liberal bloggerstorm to which Sargent is referring, but this idea that Obama should stay off of Fox to delegitimize it strikes me as counter to everything that he stands for.
Obama stands for unity. For him to boycott Fox would make about as much sense as if he were to boycott working with Republicans. The kind of coming together that Obama advocates isn’t just about bringing different races or sides of the aisle together, although it is about those things; it also includes discussing your ideas with media outlets, impartial or not.
So if, like Sargent, you take offense at the fact that “the broadcast was clearly a big victory for Fox and Chris Wallace, too,” I would counter that I’m looking forward to having a president who is actively working to turn seemingly oppositional situations into win-win ones. If Obama can do it with Fox News, he can do it anywhere.
Update: Josh Marshall seems to agree.
I literally tossed and turned for most of last night. I couldn’t stop thinking about the primary today.
In a few minutes, I’m going to walk down the block and cast my vote for Barack Obama. I’ve been following him for a long time, and am convinced that he offers a new, bright vision for America, the likes of which we haven’t seen for a long time, but that we desperately need now.
He’s more than just an eloquent speaker; anyone who takes the time to visit the issues section of his website can see that. But, once the position papers have been written and the inaugural dust has settled, I want someone in the White House who can inspire and energize this country to take on those issues. Barack Obama is the one candidate who has proven he can do it time and again.
That’s why I’m so excited to be able to vote for him, as I know many others are.
But we need your help. So, if you live in Pennsylvania, please get out and vote for Barack Obama today! You can find out everything you need, from your polling location to your voting rights, at the Obama ‘08 website.
I received this several years ago, when my friend Kurt returned from his tour in Iraq. I keep coming up with it when I do reviews of my inbox, but I have no idea where to put it. I think I’m going to file it under I for Iraq…
So, I planned on getting in a good 30 minutes of guitar practice today. (I just had my second lesson ever on Saturday). I did that, and then I decided to try and re-create the blues shuffle improv exercise that I did with my teacher in lesson, using Garageband.
So here it is: Blues Shuffle. (Collectors will note that it is the first song from my very first album, “Practice Makes Perfect”.) Note that I didn’t try to edit the hell out of it, so there’s definitely some, uh, figuring it out going on in there, but it should be like a fine wine to those of us who like our artists raw and our mix unpolished. Or something like that. Please enjoy.
Wondering where to tweet about the fact that Twitter seems to be hosed.
Whoops, wrong venue.
