Years ago, I wrote about the various tools available for monitoring bandwidth usage for individual devices in a home network.

Now, I have a definitive solution that will help with the questions: wrtbwmon. This is based on several variants that are floating around the internet, each a fork of another.

Here is an excerpt from the README file:

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Here is another way to extract money from gullible people ... casting spells to get back an unfaithful husband! What stupidity ...

The best spell caster

Am Alicia Campbell from California.I want to use this medium to tell you all about my spell caster.

This article describes why I decided to move off Rogers for the internet, what options are currently available in the local Kitchener/Waterloo area, and the details on how to switch from Rogers.

Rogers: Good and Bad

Rogers internet service is quite good from a functionality point of view. Their technical support is also acceptable, though sometimes you need to have more than one call to get an issue resolved.

Some good points on the state of affairs in the web development world today ...

In the old days there was a respected profession of application programming. There was a minority of elite system programmers who built infrastructure and tools that empowered the majority of application programmers. Our goal was to allow regular people without extensive training to easily and quickly build useful software. This was the spirit of languages like COBOL, Visual Basic, and HyperCard. Elegant tools for a more civilized age. Before the dark times… before the web.

This article describes how to install an HD TV Antenna to get free over the air channels, so you can get rid of the cable or satellite subscription.

Here is my TV Fool report. Note that some channels are not listed (e.g. CBC), but it provides you with an approximate list of what channels you can get, what power each is at, and which direction to face.

The nearest intersection for me is Fischer Hallman and Erb St W, in the west end of Waterloo.

Home-made Attempt: Coat Hanger Antenna

Principles of scientific rational thinking:

Question Authority

No idea is true just because some authority says it is true. That includes you, and includes me.

Think for Yourself and Question Yourself

Don't believe something just because you want it to be true. Belief alone is not a criterion for truth.

Test ideas by evidence from observation and experiments

If a favorite idea fails a well designed test, it is not true. Get over it.

Follow the evidence wherever it leads

If something is proven wrong, then just accept that it is wrong.

And, if you have no evidence, just reserve judgement. You don't have to take a position for or against an idea.

You could be wrong

We are humans, and we may not have all the facts, so we are sometimes wrong. Accept that, and move to more observation and experimentation.

Over the millenia, humans have collected and catalogued the accumulated knowledge of civilization in libraries. These knowledge depots are of the utmost importance for us to learn about the preceding generations. How they lived, what they ate, why did they go to war, and against whom, what poetry, songs and music did they have, what did they wear, what their dwellings looked like, and much more.

Cuneiform on clay tablets, and Hieroglyphs on stone

Matt Owen has a good article on Importance of Information Preservation. I agree with the article, and the risk of severe information and knowledge loss is real. See my comment on the article.

واحد غلس كل يوم يروح لعربية الفول
يقول للراجل بنص جنيه فول
بياع الفول يحط له الفول
يقول له طب شوية زيت
بياع الفول يحط الزيت
الراجل يقول له طب حبة ملح
يحط ملح
يقول له طب لمون كمان
يحط لمون
يقول له اللمون كثير، طب حط شوية فول بقى عشان يتعدل
يحط له فول
يقول له الفول كدة كثير
طب كمان شوية زيت
و يفضل على الموضوع دة نص ساعة كل يوم
مرة راح لبتاع الفول و عمل الفيلم دة
و قال للراجل طب شوية فول كمان
بتاع الفول طلع بوزه من الراجل
و راح ماسك القدرة كلها و راميها في الشارع