Peter’s Blog about lots of things

Ok, i am digging them, i think i will change this site in fact, i just have to make sure i have all the back end crap working..

Oh, this is gunna get me in trouble for sure.
I can’t believe this has sat in my drafts for so long. There are regifting parties, there are swaps, there are the regifts to people at weddings, big clue here folks… if you get a present that was NOT on your list of crap you wanted from stupid crate and barrel, it was a regift.
Done. peter

Hey folks, I am conducting another survey about network peering for nanog in philly, upcoming in June… Here’s the link. The survey speaks for itself.  If you don’t have an as#, you don’t want to be filling that in, as you will be lost!

Results will get posted here again in a pdf.. .Search for “nanog” for the previous one.

Peter

HERE are the results from the latest survey, given at Nanog in Philadelphia in June.

So, i look out my office window.  Thousands of trees have been yacked to make room for more lanes on one of the worst roads ever, I 495, aka The Beltway that circles Washington, DC.  All the cloverleafs around route 7 and the beltway have been completely removed and now there are large empty spaces where the trees use to be.  Now i am not some crazy treehugger, but the Hot lanes concept seems like a waste.

The hotlanes have some additional lanes with the ability to pay extra and therefore get in the less trafficy lanes and speed to your destination.  There is no way this is going to work, and it hurts the little guy.  The people that live in Springfield, Virginia and commute to Maryland or Tyson’s corner are not the people that can afford the extra costs.  This is a stupid idea.  Bail on the stupid hotlane thing and figure out an equitable solution to the little guy and the rich folks.

peter

495 & rt 7, vienna, va

So yesterday the washer and dryer showed up.  I bought an LG steam washer and dryer from Sears.  Overall experience?  10 out of 10.   Went in there, looked at all the models that were more or less in the same range of 1000 - 1400 per unit, and then ultimately went with the LG that was on sale for ~1049.

It was surprising that the other models were more, including Sears, Whirlpool, Bosch, Electrolux, etc…  I really liked the Bosch but it was like $700 more between the washer and dryer.  That is real money.  If it would have been say, $250 or less between the two, i would have gone for that one.

So I have washed everything in the house and now i need some more dirty clothes, so if you have any, mail them to me and i will wash and send back.  So far, this thing is awesome.  It is quiet, has more settings and you can turn off the beeper/ringer when it is clean, vs the old 1988 things we had.

I highly recommend LG so far…  I always have recommended sears.  They are just good.

Well folks… the old washer and dryer are getting long in the tooth.  Whirlpool?  LG?  Electrolux? Sears? Who knows anything about these and so forth…

We have a daily load with the two kids, plus you get the random smelly tennis and golf clothes in there from both me and the wife.  Kids have poo stained clothes now and then, plus their usual applesauce covered overalls, onesies, etc…

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so, gradually, what little i did outside of facebook seems to be getting ignored or absorbed into facebook’s apps.  I’m sure i’m not the first guy to point this out.  Surely classmates/reunion/etc… are all going to suffer.  I think another one is linkedin.  As soon as facebook has a professional edge/area, out goes linkedin.  I guess time will prove me right or wrong, stay tuned and tune back in a couple of years…

Hello folks… I am posting the pdf raw version of the results from over 100 ISPs, etc… that answered questions to the survey i put out.  Basically we got a lot of networks from Europe.  That meant that some of the results when presented to the skeptical nanog audience was full of “i don’t believe Dtag was so far up there in traffic… etc…”  Well, that is because those skeptics now understand that the Internet is more than just their USA /Canadian isp traffic beliefs.  So welcome to the internet folks, it is worldwide ! ! !

Here’s the pdf file, i promise to do a better job on the interpretation of the results when i have time!  And thanks to Bryan Berg and Ben Kirkpatrick that helped a lot on it!  Peter.

Folks, i’m on a evdo u727 card sitting in a suburb of philadelphia.   it works quite well, i am impressed.   Now, if you had to pay for it yourself, might not be worth it unless you are rich.

So if you travel to hotels, and airports, do the math:

call it $60/month for evdo

Call it $10 for a hotel or airport internet access each time/ per 24 hours…

Do the math, 6x equals you are a head with a evdo card and you have more reliable service, plus if you ever  needed to, you could use it in the car in a parking lot, while waiting for someone, etc…  Doctor’s office, you name it…   Go buy one!

Well folks, 8 days in the dominican republic and all i can conclude is:

• Food sucks at resorts, but a good restaurant line in Santo Domingo
• Roads suck - no doubt about that
• Service sucks - yeah, especially at resorts…

Not a lot of praise going on, tell me i’m wrong…   Two locations, Santo Domingo and Punta Cana, but only a resort in Punta… Basically, you could die stepping off a curb, as there were massive holes in the roads.  Seems like a poor country and thus, that is what you get…  But other poor countries seem to have better infrastructure, but i guess it is the hurricanes that wipe out the place regularly…

Oh well, enough ranting… back to the meds