September 2007 - Posts
We had a busy weekend. I drove Gabi and Max to their state tournament in Tampa and Lori took Bri to a meet in Daytona. Gabi and Max did well, but ended up not placing. It was a good wake up call for Max, because he finally had to spar kids his age that were much faster and stronger. Bri ended up with 1st in beam, 2nd in vault, 3rd on bars, and 4th on floor, with enough points for her to take her second 1st place all-around this year. No activities next weekend, which will be a welcome rest.
Until yesterday, I missed the Verizon FIOS service I had when I lived in Dallas. At that time I had the 15 Mbps down and 2 Mbps up package, and in Jax I have been stuck with Comcast’s 8 Mbps and 768k up package. Well, I visited DSL Reports the other day and I was pleased to see that Comcast performed a clandestine infrastructure update, apparently in support of more HD channels coming soon. Now I’m getting 20 Mbps down and 2 Mbps up, so the biggest issue now is web site throttling traffic to a specific IP. Until those new channels are available, FIOS TV still has more channels and a better PVR experience.
We have busy child activity weekend coming up and I forgot to post information about their last round of events. Gabi and Max both do competitive Taekwondo and Bri does competitive gymnastics. At their last tournament Gabi placed 1st in Forms and 1st in Sparring and Max placed 2nd in Forms and 1st in Sparring. At Bri’s last meet, she place 1st in beam, 2nd on bars, 2nd on vault, and 3rd on floor giving her a first place in the all-around.
If you experience instability when running two sets of TWIN2X4096-6400C5 G on your 680i mobo, then try bumping the voltage up to 1.9v to take advantage of the 8GB goodness. In several forums, the manufacturer has stated that this DIMM can take up to 2.1v, so I did a little exploring. There doesn’t seem to be a way to get the CAS down to 4, but I was able to tighten up the other timings a bit with 5–4–4–6 making a clean memtest run. To be a little conservative, I have mine set at 1.9v with 5–5–5–12 timings.
Ever since Thomas and I did an SOA Roadshow together a few years ago, I’ve had a standing invitation to publish content that I’ve neglected to utilize. Well, I finally got some thoughts around service virtualization together that can be found here in the SOA Magazine, which Thomas edits. If you missed my last article on WSDL 2.0, you can find that one in the SOA World Magazine here.
I didn’t really get into this in my latest article, but I took a more conservative approach to service virtualization by discussing its implementation with a pure service intermediary instead of a service gateway. In my mind, a service gateway has the capabilities of an intermediary but can also host services. This may be my Java background creeping up, but I think service gateways can provide significant benefits over pure service intermediaries by allowing service providers to defer typical service aspects like caching, security, logging, and monitoring to the infrastructure. Otherwise, service providers should develop these capabilities into their services because they cannot assume that there is an intermediary in place to control access and provide additional value-added services. Thoughts?
-Chris
Steam was constantly locking up every time I went to the Store tab. Frequent visits to the Steam support site yielding nothing. My support requests went unanswered, but that’s another story. So, for the past year, I assumed it was Steam’s incompatibility with Vista x64. I eagerly awaited the day when I would finally get the Steam client update that resolved my issue. I recently re-imaged by box for an unrelated reason and Steam was working great, so I was very pleased thinking the clean install resolved the incompatibility. However, once I installed Internet Download Manager the unfortunate behavior resumed. So, if you are encountering the same problem just disable IDM’s integration with IE and it is all good.