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Slow HTTP downloads through Cisco ASA 5500

Tue, 28 Feb 2012 16:15:20 +0000

Recently we noticed weird behavior downloading files from certain sites. The transfer would start out fast (around 10 MB/s), then after a couple of seconds it would plummet to around 9 KB/s. It didn’t happen for every file or every site: downloads from S3 buckets were still particularly fast. But some files that I remember being particularly fast were now showing this weird fast/slow/fast/slow behavior, for example the Sun JDK and ISOs from rit.edu that used to saturate our pipe were now getting all cRAzY.

My Last Optimum Online Speed Test... Ever?

Fri, 13 May 2011 22:54:23 +0000

Speedtest of Optimum Online Boost.

Fedora 15 Beta Download

Wed, 20 Apr 2011 17:08:49 +0000

To aid the flood of visitors apparently looking for Fedora 15 Beta Download ISOs:

Fedora 15 Mirror list

Install DVDs:

i386- x86_64

Fedora Desktop LiveCDs:

i686- x86_64

Fedora KDE LiveCDs:

i686- x86_64

Source: http://fedoraproject.org/get-prerelease

Speed comparison: Optimum Boost vs Verizon FiOS

Mon, 28 Feb 2011 11:26:38 +0000

Optimum Boost advertises 30 Mbps down, 5 Mbps up. Here’s a speed test I just ran at Ookla’s SpeedTest.net:

(My desktop is plugged into the router, the router is plugged into the Arris cablemodem.)

Here’s one of the last speed tests I did with Verizon, on 2/15. I had the 25/15 internet package:

(Desktop was plugged into 8-port Linksys 100 Mbit switch, the switch was plugged into the FiOS/ActionTec router.)

Java utility to reorganize photos by date taken (via EXIF metadata)

Wed, 28 Mar 2007 00:00:37 +0000

I wrote a little utility to reorganize my digital camera pics based on the EXIF date-taken data stored in the pic. It’s pretty simple, I hacked it together in about an hour, but I thought it might be worth sharing for anyone else looking to do something similar. My camera organizes stuff as it sees fit sometimes, I am particular about my directory structure. This is probably a job best left to perl, but I don’t feel like getting Perl running on my Windows box where all the pics are. Now I can finally burn all my images to DVD.