Category: Legacy

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For your viewing pleasure (this calls for a permalink):

BTW, the WMV is fine quality-wise, but the AVI is there for completeness (I’ve taken the AVI down for the time being, see below for mirrors). Also, if this starts getting slow, be sure to check out the bittorrent (also, check suprnova). It’s been /.’d so there are 4K+ seeds.

10/16 NOTE: at this point, the torrents will likely be faster than a direct d/l (Apache is handling 100+ simultaneous connections and avg’ing 7.0MB/s right now, 25GB/hr)

10/18 NOTE: Wow, this is crazy. I’ve updated the link to a redirector script as I’m going to pass the 1TB mark soon but want to keep this post accessible. If anyone has mirrors that they want to contribute bandwidth, drop me a line. I have a PHP script set up to do weighted round-robin redirection. Also, another pitch to try Phil’s bittorrent. You’ve heard all about this P2P thing, why not give it a try? There are over a thousand active seeders, so it’s going to be fast. Also, see this Daily Kos thread for some more links.

10/22 NOTE:

Oh, back to the files you’re looking for:

10/19 Update – Followup:

  • Daily_Show-Crossfire_Fallout.mov – boogah’s iFilm’s hosting the daily show followup
  • Jon Stewart, Again in the Crossfire – oh, back to absurd (or is that wickid retarded?), watch how Crossfire spin’s Stewarts appearance AND TOTALLY FUCKIN MISSES THE POINT
  • No Jokes or Spin. It’s Time (Gasp) to Talk. – NYTimes Television section gives Jon Stewart a big thumbs up

    Mr. Stewart is very funny, but it is the vein of “a plague on both your houses” indignation that has made his show a cult favorite: many younger voters are turning to the “The Daily Show” for their news analysis, and are better served there than on much of what purports to be real news on cable.

    And of course it was fun just to see television pundits who think they are part of the same media version of the Algonquin Round Table as Mr. Stewart lose their cool when he tore off the tablecloth and shattered the plates. “Wait,” Mr. Carlson said querulously. “I thought you were going to be funny. Come on. Be funny.” Mr. Stewart was funny. And it was at their expense.

See also, the CNN transcript:

CARLSON: I do think you’re more fun on your show. Just my opinion.

(CROSSTALK)

CARLSON: OK, up next, Jon Stewart goes one on one with his fans…

(CROSSTALK)

STEWART: You know what’s interesting, though? You’re as big a dick on your show as you are on any show.

(LAUGHTER)

CARLSON: Now, you’re getting into it. I like that.

STEWART: Yes.

Fun lasts until I hit 1TB or I get a takedown notice. 🙂

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Tonight I listened to Vincent Cerf give a keynote for an IMSC open house. I didn’t get to ask my question (what his thoughts on the impacts of software patents were on the principle of end-to-end), but I left feeling really energized. Also, MCI is still around? Is my Worldcom stock still a wash?

Vince Cerf w/ PowerBook

Afterwards, I skipped the free food and went back to McCarthy Quad, right in front of where I work. The programming board had apparently sprung some cash and brought Michael Moore out on his Slacker Uprising Tour. There were an impressive number of people (5K?), including a small, but loud protesting contingent. That was all good and fun until they became quite rude while a guest was brought onstage who talked about both the brother he lost in Iraq as well as the things that he thought were important as far as keeping hope, and doing the best that one can do (he is a substitute teacher in the LAUSD)… It’s quite sad, because his speech, plain-spoken and thoughtful, was one of the highlights of the night. Tom Morello showed up and played some folk songs. Also, Michael Moore responded to some of the Iraq war supporters by offering to sign them up for the army now, rather than having those “kids 2 blocks down the street” fighting and dying for you. That was a zinger that hit pretty close to home, one’d imagine.

McCarthy Quad was completely packed

All in all, a pretty unique event, just in the sheer numbers and the atmosphere. I took some photos, and will try to put together a panorama if I get a chance.

Also, upon reflection, a pretty good night. One that also makes me realize that in many ways, I’m completely spoiled in my current environment. Am I not appreciating it enough? Recently I’ve had some cause to think and reassess about my life (ahh, life decisions).

I just turned 24, but I have a lot of choices. More than most. An embarrassing amount actually. What are my options? What do I want to do with my life? Am I happy with where I am and what I’m doing? Am I jumping through hoops for something I don’t even want?

All good questions.

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  • Opening up the theyworkforyou.com development wiki – l/p in page
  • Migrating to del.icio.us – high on my list
  • Python Web Project docs – every doc site needs a PHP search equivalent
  • Mac Geekery: Random CLI Tools – /usr/sbin/screencapture is certainly the niftiest listed. Also, not mentioned there, but sips is great (but destructive, kids!)
  • Economist: The economy and the election – interesting chart
  • CivicSpace Labs – Joe Trippi swung by campus for a lunch chat, I got a chance to (very briefly) squeeze in my question to him, which was about what were the biggest tools missing, and he gave a plug on Zack’s CivicSpace (Drupal-based) project. I should probably write more about Joe’s talk, as I’ve missed his spiel at multiple conferences/events. He posits that the bottom-up, the distributed has won, and cites Napster and his campaign. While these are large ‘insurgencies,’ I think that the results of both his examples show that while things have changed dramatically that we have not won, but lost. This medium has not routed around the damage being created in the legal/social domain, and is being co-opted in a way that may ultimately corrupt its core. I think he brings up relevant points in the political domain and he’s not as rah-rah Wired 94 as his thesis might make you assume (after all, he’s a campaign manager), but still. Interesting that this wasn’t even up for discussion. Of course, almost all the dialogue was steered by the regular Annenberg crowd (hint: not students, not people remotely familiar with the techno-social landscape, but people who think the world revolves around their media power and more interested in rehashing their tired old theses than covering new ground).
  • Best of Vim Tips – some good stuff
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While I’m futzing around with hardware stuff, I want to make sure that I’ve gushed appropriately about OpenWRT and the super-router my $50 Linksys has now become.

Here’s the ping to my a work server:

10 packets transmitted, 10 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max = 8.33/12.443/21.739 ms

And here’s the ping while I’m rsyncing at 230Kbps (off of theoretical 300Kbps upstream):

10 packets transmitted, 10 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max = 9.119/51.399/95.571 ms

Oh, and now here’s while uploading at 250Kbps and downloading at 1.2Mbps:

10 packets transmitted, 10 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max = 11.564/34.727/51.772 ms

About a 20X+ improvement over performance w/o traffic shaping. It’s the difference between my shell being unusable and being productive while I’m transferring.