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Thursday, February 4, 2010 - Hoover Dam

Category: Photo Gallery

Hoover_Dam
Hoover Dam, Nevada-Arizona border. July 20, 2009.

Tuesday, January 26, 2010 - Pinning Down Accidents Caused by Cell Phones

Category: Public Policy

The National Safety Council (NSC) estimates that 25% of all crashes are caused by cell phones. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) estimates that driver distraction from all sources (including cell phones) contributes to 19 percent of all crashes (2008). Even then, this is not necessarily the cause of the crash.

Both cannot be true, someone here is wrong. The NSC report is merely a statistical extrapolation of what might have happened, heavily based on averages. More real world data to corroborate their numbers is needed. The NHTSA has the opposite problem. Their numbers are based on real world reports. These suffer from reporting errors, often because those involved in a crash might not report being distracted while driving.

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Wednesday, January 20, 2010 - Almost Flooded

Category: Photo Gallery

Almost_Flooded
My apartment nearly flooded once the downpour started. Its a good thing that I was able to improvise and put my phone books to use for once and fill in the cracks with dirt and mulch from nearby (and the rain slowed). Minor flooding isn't unusual for this apartment since it is low lying, but it usually doesn't go much past the stairs or porch. Today was different. The combination of over an hour of heavy downpour and a new landscaping job left my apartment especially vulnerable, turning my staircase into a river. I called the office, they said they would send maintenance but I lost hope of that since its already past 5 PM here. The video and first few photos are from before my handywork, the remainder are of the aftermath. San Diego, CA. January 18, 2010.

Wednesday, January 20, 2010 - JavaOne

Category: Photo Gallery

JavaOne
Moscone Center, San Francisco, CA. Taken June 1-5, 2009.

Wednesday, January 20, 2010 - Mackinac Island

Category: Photo Gallery

Mackinac_Island
Mackinac Island, MI. August 14, 2009.

Monday, December 7, 2009 - IPv6 Quirks

Category: Computing Technology

After playing with IPv6 extensively over the weekend, I discovered a number of oddities about the protocol.

First, autoconfiguration only works with /64 subnets. Anything more or less, even if the router advertises the prefix, clients will not add the prefix to its own interface. This seems like it can problematic as users cannot easily break down these prefixes into smaller subnets. This could be a key area for using DHCPv6 as a replacement.

Second, autoconfiguration will not work if the computer is configured as a router for IP forwarding. This means that additional work for defining routes needs to be done even if you only plan on using the default gateway on a network. This can either be in the form of static routes or a full blown routing protocol.

Third, 2002::/16 (IPv4 transition addresses) doesn't count as a real IPv6 address when source address selection occurs. Instead it is considered a separate scope, similar to an IPv4 address. This means when websites have both a 2001::/16 IPv6 address and a IPv4 address, the IPv4 address is used by default. If the website has a 2002::/16 IPv6 address and a IPv4 address the 2002::/16 IPv6 address is used to connect. This seems very odd and inconsistent and can lead to confusion.

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Tuesday, November 3, 2009 - Appupdater 1.3.1 Released

This is a bugfix release of 1.3. This fixes the major bug where the repository selection is not saved during install and on first run.

- Updated build requirements to newest versions of dependencies
- Fixed installer bug where data storage directory %APPDATA%\Appupdater isn't created
- Fixed installer bug where tray icon is not killed
- Fixed Service bug on Windows XP where is uses its own (incorrect) cache directory

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Tuesday, October 27, 2009 - Appupdater Research Publication

The paper, "An Implementation of the Linux Software Repository Model for other Operating Systems" was included in the Second ACM Workshop on
Hot Topics in Software Upgrades (HotSWUp'09). The paper and presentation can be downloaded from the workshop website at: http://www.hotswup.org/2009/

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Thursday, October 15, 2009 - Cantenna

Category: Photo Gallery

Cantenna
Taken April 30, 2005.

Wednesday, October 14, 2009 - Appupdater 1.3 Released

IMPORTANT: You must either upgrade to 1.3 or newer OR download the 2010 key (https://www.nabber.org/Nabber.org.2010.pub.asc) to your "keys" directory OR do a manual update (GUI: Download Apps List, Console: --update --force). Failure to do ONE of these by December 31, 2009 will cause you to stop receiving updates.

Version 1.3 CHANGELOG
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- Automatic gpg key installation fix
- Faster search algorithm with threading
- Added tray icon
- Changed included key from 2009 to 2010
- Fix for loading configuration files
- Added more keyboard shortcuts to Qt GUI
- Upgraded GPG to 1.4.10b
- Patch for UTF coding
- Added icons and more options to Help Menu
- Added Menu icon to view Windows Service log file

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