Microsoft releases VPC versions of IE (6, 7 and 8 ) for testing. Here is the link to the Official IE Blog.
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My Charter 16Mbit Speed Test
I had to call Charter back the next day – the first provisioning wasn’t performed correctly and now I’m seeing increased performance:
Not 16 mbits, but I like the almost 2 mbit up.
Charter Now Offers 16mbit/2mbit in St. Louis
Just called and I’m set up for 16/2. The pricing is the same as the old 10/1 price.
4 Gig, Windows XP and Too Many Windows
I have a Q6600 system (quad core) with 4 gig of memory (3.5 gig usable), Windows XP 32 bit and could not understand why I had trouble opening more than 10 or 20 IE windows without weird issues in the desktop. I’d be missing portions of the UI, couldn’t bring up windows and generally things slowed to a crawl. How could that be with lots of free VM as reported by the task manager?
Well the answer is a tuning parameter that limits how much memory a given desktop application can utilize. This blog post from 2004 describes the problem in detail and has the fix! Windows XP flakiness – solved
I set my SharedSection value to 8096 and I can now open 30 IE windows with no issues. This has bugged me for months and the problem was forming a proper Google search to find this post. Thank you Kevin Dente!
Oh My – Lost Was Awesome
Janna and I watched Lost last night and we were both blown away. Ben is a "badass" and Michael Emmerson is just an amazing actor to watch. I’m listening to the Jay and Jack Lost podcast on my normal morning walk.
Charter To Offer 16MB /2 MB in St. Louis
Not available yet but this link implies that Charter will offer this in St. Louis at some point:
Charter and Google Fixed in St. Louis?
I haven’t change my DNS back to Charter’s servers but a post in this thread seems to indicate that the problem has been resolved. http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r20199048-Charter-Google-Chicago~start=20
OpenDNS seems to be working well for me and I must might leave it set up for a few days to see if I continue to like it.
Found This Blog Entry: Agile Ajax: Ajax Testing: Doubling Down with Selenium and JMeter
Agile Ajax: Ajax Testing: Doubling Down with Selenium and JMeter
This could be a solution for our automated testing issues. Use Selenium IDE to record and test and then play back the test while JMeter is watching your HTTP traffic.
Google and Charter – DNS Issues in St. Louis – Is it Charter’s DNS or Routing?
Over the last week I’ve had trouble hitting Google with the address www.google.com. The following is what I see:
I decided to use OpenDNS as indicated below. It seemed to work at first but then an hour later I’m having the problem again – the following solution actually may not work. Upon reviewing the thread below, it seems the issue is routing of some sort and pointing at OpenDNS may not fix the problem. At this point the only fix seems to be to use the one of Google’s numeric IP address such as 64.233.167.99.
It appears to be a problem with Charter’s DNS as seen in this thread:
Google and Charter DNS Thread – Broadband Reports
Hitting the IP address 64.233.167.99 seems to work fine. Some solutions:
Use a host table entry for www.google.com to the IP 64.233.167.99 or point your DNS to Open DNS:
208.67.222.222
208.67.220.220It is definitely annoying and others have reported that Charter support does not accept responsibility for this issue.
My Microcontroller is now Colossus – The Forbin Project
I was working today on my little gadget I designed last year. On its first test run last December, it was dropped on the “on/off” switch and broke. The test trials were very short and the project was shipped back to me for what I thought was an easy fix. Well, the switch is fixed, but now the AVR decided to stop communicating with the JTAG interface so I can’t program the beast anymore. Unfortunately, I didn’t design a ISP interface onto the board so I have to tack wire wrap wires to the 4 lines on the Mega128 and hook up my ISP to try to get the JTAG fuse set to re-enable the interface. Well that doesn’t work either – the debug interface says the chip can’t go into program mode. But I checked some pins on the micro with my scope and it seems to be very happy doing something – sending data on the serial interface and flipping bits on the I2C interface like crazy. However the display doesn’t work and I can’t get a firmware boot to load either.
Well that reminded me of Colossus the Forbin Project – my favorite movie when I was 14 years old and I had to pop the DVD into the PS3. Darn old Collossus decided to do its own thing also. Only – it can launch ICBMS and my little ATMEL Colossus can only annoy me.
Here’s the info on this little known movie:
Colossus: The Forbin Project
Eric Braeden, Gordon Pinsent, Leonid Rostoff, Willard Sage, Martin E. Brooks, Dolph Sweet,
An artificially intelligent supercomputer is developed and activated, only to reveal that it has a sinister agenda of its own.