I am beginning to feel at home with Gentoo again. Sound is working and I can watch my favorite Japanese Anime, and of course, Battlestar Galactica. A couple months ago, I did manage to install Gentoo on my desktop but I could not get the sound to work. I ended up giving up since I had no idea what the problem was. ALSA was configured correctly. Well, I think I mentioned … [Read more...] about Day 5: Gentoo 2008 Beta1
Archives for 2008
Water Woes from Hell!!!
Well, my landlord never fixed the water leak problem. Instead he just switched the house to ground water WHICH IS FREE. Problem solved, NOPE!!! The house is still leaking water. The water guy charged us for 24000 litters of water last month. We USED that water before switching to ground water. At that time, we measured out water loss at around 800 litters per … [Read more...] about Water Woes from Hell!!!
ADSL Bandwidth , Slow?
It is 11:30 PM at night when normally the internet speeds are the best. For the last couple of days now, the bandwidth has been quite poor. I just did a Speed Test with Speakeasy and received the following results from the San Fransisco server: 338 kbps Downloads 57 kbps Uploads That is a big difference from 6 days ago. Even during the weekend I got better … [Read more...] about ADSL Bandwidth , Slow?
Got to love FPT
From 8 AM this morning until about 9 AM, I could not access any websites located outside of Vietnam with FPT. All websites located within Vietnam were easily accessible. I did a trace route and found that there was nearly a 97 percent packet loss immediately from my house to FPT. The packets never made it to the US. They were bouncing back in forth between to IPs. … [Read more...] about Got to love FPT
Perfume Pagoda (Chua Huong)
Just finished adding a page about my trip to the Perfume Pagoda. (Perfume River boat ride to the Perfume Pagoda) View more of my trip to the Perfume Pagoda at this link: … [Read more...] about Perfume Pagoda (Chua Huong)