After a lot of waiting for the 802.11n standard to be ratified Apple finally released a new 802.11n AirPort Extreme. matrushkaka and I have had a lot of problems getting iChat AV to work, even with a well-behaved router running special firmware and UPnP, even after taking NAT out of the equation entirely by putting my machine in the DMZ. Skype works, but ( Read more... )

So I've been hanging out at Philz this afternoon, working on my new spam filtering setup, but ssh access to my server is REALLY slow. I fire up ntop and after a few seconds it shows me that a guy with a Macintosh is using a lot of traffic on high ports. After a few more seconds his machine announces that its name is "Christopher Redacted's ( Read more... )

matrushkaka, s_gundam and drove back from the CA Extreme from SF to LA yesterday, and we stopped by my parents' house to see my brother who is visiting from Arizona. Two years ago I was very impressed with the Belkin MIMO router that Z installed in my parents' place. Yesterday all three of us walked our laptops down the driveway to see what kind of range we ( Read more... )