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I ran a traffic analysis today and must say, I like the results. Stats are for the dates of 07/14/07 19:40:19 through 10/16/07 17:09:55. All stats have had internal addresses (hits from me) filtered out, so this is pure external data.
General
Total Hits: 103,697
Avg Hits/Day: 987
Avg Hits/IP: 3.87
Total Page Views: 29,656
Avg Views/Day: 282
Avg Views/IP: 1.11
Total Sessions: [...]

Never would have thought I’d end up on Page 1 of a Google search for unused Halo 1 product key… sure enough. Obviously, I would never broadcast a perfectly-good product key across the Internet; I’d keep it for my own selfish gains. Nonetheless, I find it funny. Y’see, I complained about Halo 1, and I [...]

41. Why is Firefox faster on Vista than Internet Explorer?
42. Give me a way to get Windows 2000/XP window behavior and Aero Glass visuals at the same time. Just because I like it to be attractive doesn’t mean I should have to look at the bloat and have bad keyboard navigation too.
43. The Mouse Control [...]

1. DWM (Desktop Window Manager, the service that runs Aero) is consuming 158MB “Working Set”, which I believe to be non-paged RAM.
2. Still has crappy multi-monitor support. Even if I overlook the fact that I had to get a driver written this month to get all my adapters to run Aero Glass, Windows Vista still [...]

So, the question of the day is how to solve a routing problem. Hopefully some of my secret blog readers are CCNA’s who don’t mind working with Linksys and Belkin hardware. Yes, I know, Linksys embarasses Cisco. Moving on…
Comcast’s continued problems have caused me to get a DSL connection as a backup. However, I want [...]

Let me begin by saying I am a power user, and as such many things in my environment are different from a lower breed of user. My Vista system has six monitors and some of the best DDR2 RAM money can buy. I have a server at home with nearly 4TB of total storage.
I’m an [...]

Some of you will recall the plans to upgrade to Dual Broadband as brought on by the Year-Long Saga. Qwest delivered their modem as promised, and it’s up and running.
Initially, the plan was to set up a load balancer to pipe outgoing connections to whichever outbound network had the most bandwidth available at the time. [...]

Geez, there are alot of services in Windows Vista that just help themselves to an automatic startup…
Tablet PC Input Service: It’s not a tablet PC. Why, then, do you assume I would want the services of a Tablet PC input device I don’t have? Seriously.
Diagnostic Policy Service and Diagnostic System Host: Both “enable problem detection, [...]

Long ago, on a previous version of the blog whose data is long gone, I blogged about being on the Beta for Windows Codename Longhorn and (later) Windows Vista. When it went RTM, I received a free copy of Windows Vista Ultimate Edition RTM Build 2600 as a thank-you for the dozens of bugs I [...]

Many of you have been around for the Chronicles of Comcast. This is a synopsis for those of you who don’t want to bother with reading through each post in order.
The problem started sometime in December of 2006, around the time that Comcast bought Adelphia. I noticed my connection speed immediately increased, but the connection [...]