Because a lot happens on this pale blue dot
I know this list isn’t new, but I’ve come across it a few times and took the time to read it again because I still laugh at how accurate, after a few years out of college, they really have become.
1. Your houseplants are alive, and you can’t smoke any of them.
2. Having sex in a twin bed is out of the question.
3. You keep more food than beer in the fridge.
4. 6:00 AM is when you get up, not when you go to bed.
I sat down and looked at all the scientific evidence available. I came to the conclusion that, without a doubt, evolution has the most solid evidence backing it up, and believed that that any other theory was the not correct due to lack of solid evidence.
But, that was before I saw this video. They make make a tough point here. How can you argue when you’re going against evidence like this.
Continue reading ‘Evolution Proven False: Proof Using Peanut Butter’
I know you can simply search Google for a list of Dr. Seuss quotes, but here is a small list of some Dr. Seuss quotes that I particularly enjoy.
“Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.”
“I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some come from behind. But I’ve bought a big bat. I’m all ready you see. Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!”
“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.”
Over the last several weeks during my daily pursuit of Ron Paul news and coverage, I’ve started noticing an increase of people submitting posts from this “pro-Fred Thompson” forum. My first few visits were nothing more than a quick glance at a few posts before I realized how ridiculous those people who posted on those forums are and moved on. They would slam Ron Paul and the other candidates. I thought to myself, ‘why do these people seem so crazy, they make us Ron Paul fans look like saints.’
Recently, this group submitted a phony news story titled ‘Senator in ‘fake online campaign’, in reference to Ron Paul and his campaign. And no, I’m not accidentally confusing Senator with Congressman. It was submitted that way.
On my previous article I talked about how I’ve upgraded from DD-WRT to Tomato and how much of an improvement it was over DD-WRT. While I’m still tweaking my setup I thought I’d provide a quick tutorial on how to setup QoS in Tomato.
For those of though who don’t know, QoS (Quality of Service) provides different priorities to different users or data flows, or it can guarantee a certain level of performance to a data flow in accordance with requests from the application program or the internet service provider policy. In Tomato’s case we are going to set it up to give priority to data flows. In a nutshell QoS tries to guarantee that important network protocols are given priority over non-important protocols. For example, http has priority over BitTorrent.
I’d like to start off my mentioning that there isn’t just one correct way to setup QoS. This guide is only intended to give you a basic idea on how to setup your own.
About a year ago I discovered DD-WRT. I got excited when I started discovering the features it promised. I read a number of different forums about how much of an improvement it was over the “stock” firmware provided by Linksys. I was also sharing the internet connection between three people and was seeing the horrible performance. So I installed it.
After installing DD-WRT, I immediately saw a huge improvement. That slowly faded as the days passed. I started having to reboot the router after a few days of it being up. I spent countless hours scrolling through various wiki entries and forums to get the configuration perfect. I wasn’t alone in my issues with DD-WRT. I noticed that a large number of people were having issues similar to mine. Many people said how they have to reboot it after a few days. Other people were having issues with the QoS configuration. The biggest problem with DD-WRT was the lack of updates. The last stable released was in mid September 2006. I kept using it though because, regardless of its shortcomings, it was a much better solution than the stock firmware.
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