Archive for March, 2007
Brought vehicle for 20,000 miles service. Complete vehicle tests showed no problems. I used to be changing oil and filters every 3000 miles, but this time I have decided to go for 5000 miles. Too often changing oil is not always good. It is also bad for the environment.. So, service charge is $50. A silver package car wash, including wash, sealer wax, tire dressing, under carriage, $19+tips for the hardworking workers. For everything else there is master card … 
March 19th, 2007
Tried to share internet connection from windows xp to nokia 6680 mobile phone. Spend two hours, and fail. The window applications that I tried on are bluesoil bluetooth on my desktop and bluetooth stack on my notebook. Enabled internet sharing, and setup modem port. Application used in my mobile phone is gnubox. I have not figure out yet what is the problem. The computer and phone is able to establish connection both ways, but somehow my phone is not getting any IP. I will try again when I got a chance…. I don’t need the internet sharing that badly either… If anyone successfully shared their internet connection to their nokia 6680 mobile phone please shine some light 
March 17th, 2007
Time to check for bad user-agent which includes bad browser, bad bot and bad spiders. Some of my top browsers are of course IE, Mozilla, Safari, Opera, Windows Media Player, Netscape. Other than that are within my suspicion as bad user-agent.
Percentage is based on February 2007 sessions count on 1 server.
PASS
Sogou Spider (0.13%)Â - belongs to a chinese search engine sohu.com inc
Up.Browser (0.03%) -Â a mobile phone browser known as Openwave.
Konqueror (0.03%) - file manager, web browser and file viewer developed part of KDE Unix-like OS.
Hatena Antenna (0.01%) - webpage bookmark plugin. hatena is now featured as Google desktop gadgets.
Baiduspider+ (<0.01%) - search engine spider belongs to baidu.com
ia_archiver (<0.01%) - Alexa robot crawler
BlackBerry (0.01%) - blackberry mobile browser
Nokia(*) (0.01%) - nokia mobile browser
Vodafone (0.01%) - uk mobil network, mobile browser
SonyEricsson (<0.01%) - SonyEricsson mobile browser
HPiPAQhw6900 (<0.01%) - HP iPAQ mobile browser
UNKNOWN
HTTP Fetcher (<0.01%) - need more info
JAVA (<0.01%) - need more investigation. most of the time this agent is mark for blocking, including python urllib.
WGet (0.01%) - undecided, file retrieval using HTTP, unix-based os.
BAD
Download Ninja (0.04%) - bad.
Internet Ninja (0.02%) - bad.
WebAuto - bad.
WebCopier - bad.
Slowly building user-agent blacklist… more to come.
March 16th, 2007
Just for the fun of it, I am speed testing Cingular EDGE using SpeakEasy Speed Test based in Los Angeles, CA. The speeds that I got are…
First try result:
Download Speed: 199 kbps (24.9 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 88 kbps (11 KB/sec transfer rate)
Second try result:
Download Speed: 188 kbps (23.5 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 88 kbps (11 KB/sec transfer rate)
The download speed is reasonable because it is a little above the advertised speed of 75-135 kbps by Cingular. Feels like two to three times the speed of a good old dialup modem. I would perform another speed test when I got a chance. Maybe after a fresh boot, I could have gotten better numbers…
March 15th, 2007