Author: Rich Brown

Get your IRS transcript!

Why can’t the IRS tell me how much has been reported? Various companies and entities forward the same information to me and to them. If only I could look at the IRS’ notion of what has been reported, I could avoid rummaging around for all those scraps of paper at tax time. Well, now you

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Better than rm -rf /.Spotlight-V100

My MacBook Pro (10.9.2) was running slowly. I saw frequent spinning beach balls, systemstats was consuming 100% of the CPU on a regular basis, Apple Mail was grinding away indexing files, etc. The forums at discussions.apple.com contain all kinds of dicey recommendations about rm -rf /.Spotlight-V100 followed by “Works for me!” and “Didn’t work for

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Learning about Single Page Apps

I’ve been looking for a way to sort out Angular, Backbone, Bower, Grunt, Node, NPM, Yeoman and all the other buzzwords that get thrown around for writing a Single Page App for the web. There are many Youtube videos around: these videos stand out as excellent resources. Intro to Angular.js in 50 Examples (Part 1) The evolution

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And the H@ckfest results…

What a great weekend! What interesting ideas came from the H@ckfest! My team, the inforMED project, presented an idea for helping first responders (EMTs, ED triage) to get relevant data on their cell phone/tablet when they first encounter a patient. If the patient has one, the EMT would scan the token (RFID, QR code, NFC,

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RRUL Tests – CeroWrt 3.10.28-16

I took the time to incorporate the feedback from my previous post to load the newest CeroWrt firmware and re-run the tests. This image gallery shows the results of the RRUL performance tests. There’s a lot of analysis in the note on the CeroWrt-devel mailing list at: https://lists.bufferbloat.net/pipermail/cerowrt-devel/2014-March/002396.html

RRUL Tests – CeroWrt 3.10.28-14

RRUL charts [Note: This is an earlier result. Check out the subsequent posting for CeroWrt 3.10.28-16 (above)] The postings below are a series of charts that were created by the netperf-wrapper program. Note: I don’t know why the upload charts show such fragmentary data. All charts made with default Queue Discipline: fq_codel, simple.qos script, ingress

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