Todd's Blog

I was having a problem up in one of the remote branches. They use Satellite to connect up to the Internet and then terminal session to use the main application. Problem was we kept getting booted out of the terminal session when connected via the satellite. I’d set them up on dial up and away they go. I knew something had to be not quite right here, the dish is 512k, the phone line is 56k. I know dish has latency issues, but this was more of a freeze right up then just delay.

Discovered the router had Q0S, so I cranked up the priority on a terminal session and lowered the http priority. So far so good.

First off, lots of iPod action going on today. Not going to bother about it, nothing much more to say that hasn’t been said. Probably going to get Texas Hold’ em or a few other games for my 5G iPod though.

But I did see a write up on Spambox on Lifehacker and thought it was a useful little tool. I am always leery about using an email for signing up to something; I have a few spam mailboxes just for that. You set up a mail address, and mail gets forwarded to your mailbox for as long as you want. This way you don’t need to hand out your real email and if the spam starts flowing into it, just shut it off and make a new one. Pretty handy.

Link to Get a temporary email address with Spambox – Lifehacker