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Largest Citywide Wi-Fi Deployment
Grumpy writes "Yahoo! News is reporting that Aiirnet will begin installing, next month, the largest single Wi-Fi deployment in the nation in the city of Cerritos in Southern California. Ultimately, anyone with a laptop or wireless device will be able to surf the Web from virtually anywhere in the city's 8.6-square-mile area. Scores of wireless networking transmitters are being placed atop public buildings, traffic lights and other structures to blanket the city. The 51,000 residents of Cerritos have not had DSL broadband access to the Internet because the city is too far from the telephone company's central office and Cable Internet access has not been an option either."
Ok its a big deal for me cause its the first time I got a first post
"And The Geek Shall Inherit The Earth" --Jeff Darlington
It's been a long time! Pudge fixed our last substantial memory leak in Slash a few weeks ago... under some sets of circumstances, messages could swell up to unreasonable sizes, and using Apache::SizeLimit, the fork would suicide. The biggest problem with this is that the reader loading the page would experience some lag, and then immediately hit reload 2-3 times... since the load balancer liked to send all those requests to a single head, it didn't take much to barf. It shouldn't barf, but it did. Anyway, we fixed some code, and changed a few rules (essentially limiting the number of messages users could keep on Slashdot... I don't want our message system to be an archive for folks... this is more akin to IM than email) and last night we've confirmed that our memory leak appears to have gone. Apache forks now serve out their 1000 MaxRequests in peace...
Speaking of messages, I think I mentioned in a journal a few weeks ago of the tremendous volume of bounced messages that slashdot at slashdot dot org gets. We first became aware of this when our ISP asked us to delete messages since we were over our quota.... 2.5 *gigs* over our quota. Turns out that nobody had been checking the account since Robo left us a few years ago. We were getting 20,000 bounces every day to that address. Over the course of the last month, we've been catching bounces to the address, and in the case of repeat bouncers, we turn off the emails on in their user preferences. This is mostly automated now with a couple scripts. After a few weeks, our bounces are down from 20,000/day to 1,500/week... of course, that address is also a spam magnet. Putting spamassassin on it helped a lot.
Thanksgiving went really well this year. We had the family over to our place for the big dinner. Kathleen cooked dinner for 15... her first large cooking experience. She did a really great job... especially considering she's never played host to a party of this size. I was pretty impressed. Speaking of Kathleen, yesterday was our one year anniversary. Crazy really... a whole year. Seems like we've been together forever. Couldn't be happier.
Kathleen and I are now neck deep in that most favorite of holiday festivities... shopping. She has this gigantic sticky note on her mac desktop listing the dozens of people that we need to shop for, ideas, and notes of things we've actually ordered. This is approximately as complicated as as huttle launch... tis the season... fa la la la... blah.
Having recently watched the extended version of The Two Towers, I have opinions. Once again, the box is a tremendous value, packing four hours of movie, plus like 8 or 9 hours of bonus videos and documentary material and picture galleries and such. It took Kathleen & I a full week to watch it all (and we still haven't watched the commentary track!). They didn't add as much core material to this movie... I felt liek Fellowship's extended cut was a vastly improved movie. TTT extended was just longer. Some really good stuff was added, but nothing absolutely critical. But it was still super cool, and has got me stoked for RotK which is now just over a week away. I've even started re-reading the book in preperation (as I did for each of the first films... I was just a child when I first read these stories. Coming back to them is very satisfying).
Anyway, thats enough rambling... much to do... Final Fantasy X-2 is out, and I *still* haven't got my copy... what kind of fool am I? Girl Pop, Costume Changes AND final fantasy? It's like they put all the greatest things into a single video game just to taunt me!
PF
"Yo quiero Pacific Bell"
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"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
Can we please abandon the phrase "Surf the web" to Sunday supplement columnists and others of a related ilk? I guess it was an apt term years ago when people actually mindlessly followed links, but it just sounds so John Q Public anymore.