Previous setup: individual ONT in the basement of a small apartment building, ran MoCA coax around the outside of the building into all apartment units. Provisioned at 25/25.

Current setup: Motorola 6000 MDU ONT using VDSL1 to run to the units. Motorola 6000 VDSL router with 20/5 provisioning.

Order: over the phone, 25/25 FiOS Internet. No mention of the inability to provision 25/25 given the MDU ONT used.

Install problems: Tech shows up at 1:30pm for a 8am – 12pm appointment. Isn’t familiar with VDSL installs. Leaves by 3pm. VDSL modem won’t pick up the signal. Says a friend of his will finish the job later. Other tech shows up 7:30ish carrying a Motorola 6000 router and replaces the ZyXel 681 installed by previous tech. Finishes up by 8:30pm. Speed tests indicate a problem. Only 15/2 max speeds. He tells me to call tech support.

Next day I spend 45mins running speed tests for the tech. Tells me Linux is not supported so I use my old Mac Mini to run tests. Agrees to send someone out to investigate. Note that I indicated I was pretty sure it was a provisioning problem but was ignored.

Next day tech runs some speed tests.  Keeps telling me that it may need to be “optimized.” Network tech on phone finally realizes its provisioned to 15/2. Sets it to 20/5 and the speed tests give back expected results.

Tech problems: its a garden apartment complex. There is no physical or technical reason to use VDSL to the units. Either by using individual ONTs and existing coax for MoCA or ethernet or a MDU ONT outputting either would bring everyone up to default tiers. VDSL2 would do more or less the same.

It should be a simple upgrade. These MDU ONTs appear to use individual cards which presumably can be individually upgraded. If I ask for some provision above the 20/5 VDSL provides then upgrade my circuit. Or ramp up the VDSL provision offering some. It should handle 52/16 over phone and 85/85 over coax.

Pricing problem: I ordered 25/25. I got (in the end) 20/5. No warning. If I wasn’t tech savy or paid attention to the details it is easy to imagine that I would have missed this fact and been charged for far less than I asked for. 4/5 the download and 1/5 the up and they want to charge me $65/month instead of the 25/25′s $70/month. I called back and was told that they could probably discount it more but needed to wait for promotionals to be added to the system. The “You are about to get FiOS” paperwork that I received *after* the install indicated I was to get FTTP_20M_5M meaning they knew but never told me.

So… why shouldn’t I go to my neighbors and ask them to get an individual ONT, run coax across the yard and have the bill come to me? Why do they refuse to look into upgrading to the unit systems on demand?

So if you live in a multi dwelling unit be sure to check if you get FTTP/FTTB or FTTH. You want the latter. Your options though are limited if the former. Verizon seems unwilling to upgrade or work around the existing install limitations.

1. Black Dahlia
2. Telephone Line
3. Palandrome
4. I Will Survive
5. Ocean of Hunger (Live in Spain 2009)
6. Monsoon (Live in Spain 2009)
7. Too Late (Live in Spain 2009)

Concept: The idea for this project was spawned at the first Motorhome Diaries Meetup in central New Jersey. Jason Talley and I discussed a site that would allow individuals to post media regarding their run ins with government officials. Particularly cops. The finished product would have the following functionalities.

• Map which provides markers for each event. Those markers ideally would be different colors and designs so as to more easily distinguish them by category.  (botched raid, traffic infraction, etc.)
• When clicked on markers should popup the specific information regarding the event. A Description, sources, location, media, etc.
• Categories as represented by the markers should be able to be toggled on and off so the user make view only those they care about.
• For performance reasons there needs to be some amount of intelligence in the placing of markers as the map is zoomed out. Currently using a modified version of Joe Poskanzer’s Clusterer2.
• Users should be able to search for an area using Google’s map searching abilities.
• New events should be submittable by users.
• Submissions will need to be moderated not unlike a blog so that spam and junk doesn’t get through.
• Before submitting to be moderated there should be some amount of logic (perhaps using a keyword/tagging service + source checks) to see if the story already exists and if so allow the user to add / modify the existing event. This too would need to be moderated.
• When the user submits a new story they will be required to enter a category. Categories already existing should be presented to them with an ability to add new ones. This too should be smart and do a keyword comparison to make sure it’s not a duplicate. Offer the user the list of possible preexisting categories.
• Using geolocation the form should allow lookup of where ever the new user submitted marker is. Fields should be editable and checked against geo location services to confirm before submission. Having autocomplete of fields would be good too.
• Part of the form should be contact information for those government agencies involved.
• Media should be uploadable though it’s not necessary given Youtube and such services. However, given that some times media is taken down it’d be preferable that not only can users upload specific media files (pdf,video,audio) but that links to media be followed and those be downloaded if possible as a backup.
• Using google alerts or just merging existing known feeds it should provide a RSS/ATOM feed showing news stories regarding government abuses. Such as Injustice News.
• A desirable feature would be to provide the ability to follow the news story link and attempt to build a submission for the site should it not exist already. Or bring up the event within the site so that the user may update it.
• A general RSS/ATOM feed should be provided so that new events and updates are easily picked up by followers of the site. Additionally there should be the ability to narrow down the feed to events within a particular country, state, county, city or maybe even radius from a particular lng,lat point.
• Much of this is already implemented in some way in the prototype though not in a very attractive way. The RSS feeds and event checker don’t exist. The uploader uses a special PHP addon called uploadprogress so that uploads can be tracked without the use of FLASH. Submissions are held for moderation but there is no way to actually moderat

Technologies used in prototype: PHP, Javascript, JQuery, Google Maps, Google geotags, GeoNames, custom version of Jef Poskanzer’s Clusterer2, the JQuery msdropdown, jquery.progressbar, jquery.blockUI, jquery.autocomplete and others. See http://github.com/bile

Similar pages: CopBlock, Injustice News

I’ve talked with CopBlock and Injustice News. Both are interested in working together should this get off the ground.

http://blog.ulfurinn.net/2009/1/17/emergency-epmd-reanimation

After finding out this I scanned Google to confirm and ran across a few mailing list posts which recommended placing epmd in /etc/inittab so that should it ever die or is killed it will be restarted but this doesn’t solve the problem where the old nodes are no longer registered with epmd. The link above shows how to use the erl_epmd server to reregister the node but one needs to know the name and port which the Erlang instance is listening on. After digging around in lib/kernel/src/erl_epmd.erl I found that the name and port were kept in it’s state and there was an undocumented call which would return them call ‘client_info_req’. So rather than using netstat or lsof and remembering the node name as required above one can automate the process.

Which I’ve done. I through together an OTP app which will poll epmd and scan for an entry for the node. If it’s not found it will reregister itself. Optionally it will also attempt to restart epmd in daemon mode. An event based implementation would be best but I currently don’t know enough to know if that’s even possible. For the time being this will help maintain that nine 9′s uptime.

epmd_monitor-0.1.0.tar.gz

• DOS
  • Executioners
  • Noggin Knockers
  • Time Slaughter (beta)
  • Time Slaughter
  • Noggin Knockers 2
• Windows
  • Noggin Knockers X
  • Wrath of the Sea King
  • Skippy’s Revenge
  • Tromaball!
  • Terror Firmer
  • Disgruntled (prototype)
  • O’Sirus the Snip (platformer demo)
  • O’Sirus the Snip (adventure prototype)
  • Sensational Automobile Destruction Orgy Deluxe Version EX: Goopa Goopa Ultra-Enhanced Turbo Breed of Alpha Bloodlust Software Warriors: The Newcomers of Old Times Millennium Edition

Artwork:

Literature:

CHARTARUM is the first feature film by Think Twice Productions. John Shaw – Writer/Director/Co-Producer, Jason Osborne – Producer/Actor

For those who give a shit:

Along my voyage, unexpectedly I met one of my soul mates. Her name was Carrie Louise Hamilton. She was the kind of person who could light up a room upon walking into it… She had pink dreads, tattoos billowing over her shoulder, long legs, a big smile and could diffuse any potentially bad situation immediately. I left my career, my friends and my family to sit by her side and watch her die from cancer. It ripped serveral hearts out and left me a shadow of what most of you once knew.

I spent the next few years shooting a lot of speed and following a spiral downward, throwing my giant temper tantrum. At first I made it all about you/them, then all about me and now I’ve come to the conclusion that I don’t know who the fuck its all about but the speed eventually lost its charm and using Carrie’s death as an excuse got old.

Luckily I have some friends that I happen to be in a band with (Ena, and Enrique) and a couple others that I apparently didn’t alienate (Raven O. and Heidi Follin) that are better people than I am and who rescued me and showed me that there were still reason to want to be alive, acted in totally selfless ways completely above and beyond the call of friendship and to them I am very grateful and owe them my life. Thank you guys! I Love you!

It feels good to have my head finally out of my ass and I didn’t write this to make any excuses or apologies for any of my behavior. It’s all part of my life and I have always had an extreme one from the day I was born

It might even happen again cuz life isn’t perfect. I’m somehow dumber than I ever was but it’s kind of refreshing and if anything it all taught me two major things…… 1. If you pull your head out of your ass, you find there are other people in the world to experience and………..2. I WILL SURVIVE. ………..I hope you enjoy “Black Dahlia” and the subsequent music we made as a result and fuck it, now there is nothing to gossip about so let’s not speak of it again!

Pat Briggs.. Live and die rock and roll!