Web Performance, Branding, and Social Media
In: RANTING
19 Oct 2005Seems there is an unannounced little issue sending mail from Comcast to Hotmail. [here]
I use a Web mail program; guess the twits at comcast think that everyone should be.
Technorati: hotmail, comcast, foobar
IceRocket: hotmail, comcast, foobar
So, I mentioned earlier that I have packet loss on the uplink from my Web server where GrabPERF and this blog are hosted. How do I know it’s packet loss and not some other issue?
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Notice the banding of measurements around 3 and 9 seconds? These values are the set TCP re-transmission timeouts for [...]
In: smp
11 Aug 2005Today, by special delivery, I got notice that FIOS is available at my house.
I called Comcast and asked how they were going to match this offer. They offered me $29.95/mo. for 6 months.
Now, because of my unique situation (i.e., requiring a semi-permamnent IP address to allow people to access my servers), I may be stuck [...]
In: smp
1 Jul 2005Tried to set up Verizon DSL last night. Didn’t work; rotating IP addresses; a variety of line related issues. Cancelled the service this morning.
Sorry for any interruptions you may have encountered last night.
In: smp
26 Jun 2005After 4.5 years of customer loyalty, I have decided that I have had enough of Comcast’s outrageous prices. I will be switching to Verizon DSL as soon as the install kit arrives.
Due to the way that my DNS is managed, you may encounter issues connecting to the server during the couple of days that it [...]
In: smp
8 Jun 2005Dear Arrogant Monopolistic Cable Operator:
The day of reckoning is upon you. Your formerly monopolistic power has been drained by years of failed mega-mergers, media plays, satellite providers and gross mis-management. Your cash cows are showing signs of Mad Cow Disease.
The final straw for me is your incredibly pig-headed strategy of price inflexibility on your high-speed [...]
In: RANTING
4 May 2005Gee, want to make those searches even more powerful? How about we track exactly where every person on the Web is going by tracking them using a piece of software that they install on their own computers?
Google Web Accelerator. The latest from Big Brother those folks at Google.
This also explains why Google wanted to buy [...]
In: smp
14 Apr 2005Now, I never even heard about this Comcast outage until this morning. [here]
One reason that I likely didn’t notice it is that I run my own caching name servers on my home network. I do this because I have never trusted any provider’s overworked name servers (goes back to the history of the industry I [...]
Streaming v. Torrent – The true promise of on-demand
In: Commentary| Streaming
29 Aug 2008Steve Gillmor comments on TechCrunch today that Comcast’s caps on bandwidth may finally drive people from the land of torrents, and to the land of streaming. [here]
While I agree that the promise of streaming is long overdue, there is the one area that streaming still can’t fill: The mobile viewer. I don’t mean folks on [...]