Configuring QoS on DD-WRT - Lifehacker

Adam Pash’s posts on DD-WRT have re-awakened my interest in playing with DD-WRT features. No net neutrality in my house … The first thing to try out is assigning “bulk” priorities to all my kids computers and/or popular applications.

Lifehacker | Feature: Ensure a Fast Internet Connection When You Need It

Just Noticed | Mac RSS Reader – NetNewsWire is now free

This great RSS newsreader is now free. If you read a lot, just get it. I found out this because my paid for version was not updating properly

Mac RSS Reader – News Reader for Apple - NetNewsWire by NewsGator

Here is a post discussing merits of a few RSS readers.

Long Live vi/vim

I always get a smile when I see evidence that vi/vim is still kicking

For example. The Tao of Mac Blog has a good vi/vim post that includes a set of links to cheat sheats and apps.

On another tack. A few weeks ago I was talking “Mac” with Bill R and he was amazed that OS X included vi/vim (and that I actually use it occasionally).

Rockin’ PC Heat Sinks!

I’ve always enjoyed the synergy between complex semiconductors and cooling technologies. It’s been a while since I’ve seen the latest heat sink. I found this while perusing the Home Theatre PC system guide at Ars.

So Cool

bye bye yahoo mail plus

I had to phone in my cancellation of service for yahoo mail plus today

I was going to let my cancellation of yahoo mail plus go by silently. I felt that I’ve posted too much wrt/ my Yahoo mail problems, but then the “cancel service” button didn’t work online

I had to phone it in. “Can you say Irritating”.

Hackintosh - Mac OSX on PC Hardware

Last week Bill tipped me off to Hackintosh

which led me to this cool article on Lifehacker Build a Hackintosh Mac for Under $800

Then today there is a post on GigaOm’s Web Worker Daily Psystar - $400 Mac?

This site … looks like a “beautiful time waster” OSx86 Project

File Renaming - Renamer4Mac - A Good Tool - Mac OS

I’ve found Renamer4Mac to be a very useful tool. I particularly like the “Regular Expression” (grep) search & replace capability.

I do a lot of file processing every week which often requires renaming files. I’ve written Perl scripts for most of my batch jobs, but there is always something new that pops up.

too late — yahoo mail to shaw works today

First time since mid-Feb Wonder if it will work tomorrow?

Of course Yahoo mail support has not contacted me yet. I’ve given up on them. It’s now been 9 days since the last contact. The only thing they have been able to tell me in the past month is — go to this online problem report report page, or it’s not our problem

fyi .. I’m a long time premium Yahoo mail user who has switched to gmail. I hate switching. I hated having to switch from @netscape.net in ‘98, but it was necessary. I hated switching from @yahoo.com this past month, but it was necessary. I hope I that I don’t have to change from @gmail.com for ten years as well.

So much for Yahoo Mail Support :-( 6 days and counting :-(

It’s been six days since I sent the mass of undeliverable shaw e-mails to Yahoo Mail support group that their Live Chat guy recommended. So much for replying in 48 hours

From: abuse-admin@cc.yahoo-inc.com
Subject: Auto Confirmation - Your Yahoo! Mail support request was received (KMM66772997V5872L0KM)
Date: March 7, 2008 8:04:45 AM PST (CA)
To: xxxxxx
Reply-To: abuse-admin@cc.yahoo-inc.com

Hello,

This is an automated message regarding your recent request for Yahoo!
Mail Customer Care support. We have received your message and will
respond within the next 48 hours with an answer.

Thank you for reaching out to us. We look forward to helping you!

Sincerely,

Yahoo! Customer Care

**Please do not respond to this message as no one will receive it.

yahoo mail is breaking: yahoo to shaw and now verizon!

My yahoo mail just gets worse I replied to a blog comment from my yahoo account to the verizon domain. It failed. Wow! Shaw.ca and now Verizon.com are unreachable from my yahoo mail.

On my continuing saga. Yahoo to Shaw still doesn’t work for me. On the plus side — I did get an e-mail thru, but it took 2 days ( my march 7th test was received today).

Sorry, we were unable to deliver your message to the following address.

<xxxxx@verizon.com>:

Remote host said: 550 5.1.1 <xxxxx@verizon.com>… User unknown [RCPT_TO]

— Below this line is a copy of the message.

Received: from [216.252.122.217] by n73.bullet.mail.sp1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 09 Mar 2008 17:56:28 -0000
Received: from [68.142.200.224] by t2.bullet.sp1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 09 Mar 2008 17:56:28 -0000
Received: from [68.142.201.241] by t5.bullet.mud.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 09 Mar 2008 17:56:28 -0000
Received: from [127.0.0.1] by omp402.mail.mud.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 09 Mar 2008 17:56:28 -0000
X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 263999.90212.bm@omp402.mail.mud.yahoo.com
Received: (qmail 90218 invoked from network); 9 Mar 2008 17:56:27 -0000