Posts Tagged ‘Europe

Gtalk rocks!

In: Life| Technology

24 Apr 2006

Ok, I decided to try this Gtalk thing. Called a friend of mine and it smoked! Sound quality was superb, with no lag. I will have to set Samantha up with a headset and mic for when I go to Europe!
PS: I am spierzchala on Gtalk.
Technorati Tags: Gtalk

Scott Johnson writes about how we all want to drop our mobile provider every once and a while. [here]
I have the same provider that Scott does: T-Mobile.
I am a complete T-Mobile lover. The coverage is great, and the use of GSM makes it so perfect for my travel needs, which includes the occasional trip to [...]

Looks like my brother Dave and I will be in different places in Europe at the same time. He is going to be in Warsaw (Ah! the ancestral homeland of our Family Name!) and I will be in London and Hamburg.
For those of you who track these things:
London – May 13 – 17 (evening)Hamburg – [...]

It turns out that my boss had an old Treo 600 lying around the house he wasn’t using. And it turns out that it was a T-Mobile Treo 600, not the Verizon crud that the company provides. And since the company upgraded him to a Verizon Treo 700 (which doesn’t work in Europe, much to [...]

I was reading online (Slashdot) that some videos from Iraq are censored in the US.
Yup, it’s true

So much for “Do no evil”.
Any wagers on where the first internment camp will be opened in the United States? Guantanomo Bay and Eastern European “democracies” are not included in this pool.
Technorati Tags: Google, Google Video, censor, censorship
UPDATE: Turns [...]

If anyone wants to know why I am proud of GrabPERF, this graph should give you a clue.

Every hour, an aggregated value is produced for every test url. Counting up the Geometric Mean aggregations on a daily basis, the growth line is pretty amazing.
Doing a rough calculation, the system has grown from testing 40 urls [...]

Here are the IP Block and Address allocation by registrar, as well as the number of officially allocated IP Addresses in each country (with 65536 Hosts or more) as of September 22, 2005 00:30 UTC.
This data has been extracted from the GrabIP database

IP REGISTRAR BREAKDOWN

registry NUM_HOSTS NUM_BLOCKS
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arin [...]

Here are the IP Block and Address allocation by registrar, as well as the number of officially allocated IP Addresses in each country (with 65536 Hosts or more) as of August 29, 2005 00:30 UTC.
This data has been extracted from the GrabIP database

IP REGISTRAR BREAKDOWN

registry NUM_HOSTS NUM_BLOCKS
——– ———- ———-
arin [...]

Here are the IP Block and Address allocation by registrar, as well as the number of officially allocated IP Addresses in each country (with 65536 Hosts or more) as of August 17, 2005 00:30 UTC.
This data has been extracted from the GrabIP database

IP REGISTRAR BREAKDOWN

registry NUM_HOSTS NUM_BLOCK
——– ———- ———
arin [...]

There are now 3 GrabPERF locations running.
Now I am looking for some folks to run it from the West Coast, Europe and Asia.
Go Go Gadget Monitor!

Technorati: GrabPERF, Web Performance, Web Performance Measurement, Web Performance Monitoring, curl, linux
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