Who's stealing my bandwidth!? Day 4

Generic greeting day 4.

No more testing to be done! So it's rest time... Thank goodness!

Day 3 results
Original remaining download quota: 15.6042Gb
End remaining download quota: 15.4834Gb

Day 1: 116Mb (approx)
Day 2: 465Mb (approx)
Day 2: 121Mb (approx)

REALLY looks like we have a winner now! Next I'll be trying out invidual machines offline most likely in this order:

Leopard
Simba
Garfield
Jaguar
Cheetah
Sylvester

But for now... well, until tomorrow morning or something... break!!

Who's stealing my bandwidth!? Day 3

Evening went and morning came. This was DAY 3!!!
Today's test box: Jaguar

Jaguar is my brother's self-administered box. It runs Windows XP SP2 and is just a desktop machine providing no services to the network.

Day 2 results
Original remaining download quota: 15.9689Gb
End remaining download quota: 15.6042Gb

Of that, I personally pulled down about 100Mb worth of stuff (including e-mails, webpages, images, etc). So taking that out...

Day 1: 116Mb (approx)
Day 2: 465Mb (approx)

Hmmm... Might have to give Leopard another go offline when all this is over!

Who's stealing my bandwidth!? Day 2

*yawns* Day 2 eh?
Today's test box: Cheetah

Cheetah is my Primary Domain Controller (PDC). It handles user accounts for an Active Directory domain as well as user profiles. It hasn't been used for this as much lately with the introduction of laptops, non-Windows machines and stand-alone, user-administrated machines. It's basically a glorified file server now. It has just over 1Tb of space in it to store any files necessary... or even those not necessary.

Just a side note from yesterday that I forgot to mention: Simba was kept offline too. Simba usually travels with me and isn't online much anyway though. Today, alongside Cheetah, Sylvester will be kept offline too. Also, yesterday's download quota remaining was 16.085Gb.

Day 1 results
Original remaining download quota: 16.085Gb
End remaining download quota: 15.9689Gb

Looks like we could possibly have a winner... Nevertheless, the testing shall continue.

Who's stealing my bandwidth!? Day 1

All my download quota from my ISP is disappearing :S It was happening last month after the introduction of the xbox 360 so I just assumed it was that but now that it's been off for 2 days and the amount of data downloaded from the internet is still increasing, it appears there's something more sinister afoot... So, starting today, I'll be disconnecting 1 computer at a time for 24 hours to see if it stops the download quota disappearing.

Welcome to day 1.
Today's box: Leopoard

Leopard is my web/proxy/dhcp server. It runs the website http://seto.no-ip.org through Apache, PHP and MySQL and shares the internet among the LAN here via Squid filtered by DansGuardian. It also hands out IP addresses using DHCPD. It's powered by OpenBSD. The only reason I can see it using up download quota is if somehow the server has been exploited and someone is uploading data to it. We shall see...

Mac OS X Leopard and beyond

Well, long story short I've got my hands on a copy of the retail version of Apple's new Mac OS X Leopard. I installed it on Friday morning and am currently writing from the MacBook (SIMBA!!!) that it's running on now :). So far the experience has been pretty smooth. A few applications have had to be upgraded and a few tweaks here and there to get some programs to work properly (e.g. Journler) but on the whole, I think it's great! I don't use spaces as much as I thought I would though. For those of you who don't know what that is, it's just like virtual desktops that you'd find on Linux. Shut down seems to be quicker, booting up takes fractionally longer and surpisingly battery life seems to be better. I've had the battery time tell me it had over 6 hours left at one point. Previous record was something like 5 and a half. Not sure what's going on there but it was a nice surprise. Connecting to Windows network shares no longer creates an icon on the desktop. I think I miss that :(. As many other sourced have pointed out too, the icon for Windows network share computers is a monitor with a Windows 9x-ish Blue Screen Of Death (BSOD). The interface is a lot nicer now too. The menu bar is semi-transparent now and I think I remember some place saying that it's vector-drawn now instead of bitmaps. Shadows of windows seem darker and I'm liking the new shiny look of the dock. I've also read a few complaints about Java not working properly or something but it must be a developer thing as I've had no problems whatsoever running my java programs or online java applets. I haven't tried the new BootCamp yet aside from installing the update on the Leopard install disc. Nothing seems to be different on it though just from the brief look I had. I'll have to update my Mac Apps list soon. I've taken to using osx.iusethis.com along with AppFresh. Unfortunately this doesn't work with Leopard yet so I'm kind of holding out until it does.

Now to the beyond... This is the more personal section :P I've started working fulltime now. I've moved up a bit and taken over the position of someone who decided to leave and run his own business. This has left me pretty flat-out but it's still been good :). I've also been told I probably have chronic fatigue and fibromyalgia :(. If you don't know what they are well... Google is your friend :) It'll probably do a better job of explaining than I can. Anyway, this is why working fulltime has left me pretty flat-out. Thankfully, my boss is pretty understanding of this so it's working out well. Not much more to report...

Dear Loyal Blogfan

Anonymous said...

Why have you not blogged in so long? What've you been doing?

-Loyal Blogfan.

Indeed. As you can see on the left-hand side of this blog, I now have a Xbox Live gamer profile. As you'll see from that, most of my activity has been on Halo 3. This in itself should explain a whole lot. Mind you, I've only had this for about a week now. So where's the rest of the time gone?

Well, let's sum up first:
Why have you not blogged in so long? Because there's not really anything to report.
What've you been doing? Taking it easy

As most of you who know me personally would know, I've been sick for a while. Many tests have been run, many diagnoses given but nothing that's actually helped me much yet. So until such time as that happens... I have to sleep lots. When I'm not sleeping I'm either at work, at church or just taking it easy to try and let my body recover, sleeping somewhere between 9 to 13 hours a day for 2-4 hours of actually feeling alert :P. If you want to know what the current diagnosis is, contact me personally and I'll let you know.

For the record, Halo 3 and other such games are one such way of taking it easy. As is talking to people and, well, not really going anywhere too often. I'm pretty much a shut-in :P. How's this work? None of it involves much thinking. Talking is just typing whatever comes to mind, Halo 3 is just push buttons (I don't use any form of strategy besides run, shoot, die, repeat - makes me sort of a bad player but hey, at least I'm taking it easy!). Very little physical activity is involved, just moving fingers, and very little thinking :). Sounds perfect for "taking it easy". I'm not sure how long I'm supposed to do this for though :-/... I guess until I get better.

So... until I get better:

Takin it easy,
Seto