Rocket Silence

Photo Credit: randomtruth on Flickr – used under CC license
Well, after three weeks, I’m back in Santa Barbara and have returned to UCSB just in time for two back-to-back midterms and a paper due on Thursday. The time in San Francisco was fun, but I’m glad to be home. While there, I registered as a [...]

For those wondering about my whereabouts recently, I’ve been in San Francisco and its surrounding areas for the past week. I’ll be here for at least another week and a half for obligations I couldn’t get out of or complete closer to home. Keeping up with school work remotely isn’t too difficult and I, luckily, [...]

Tomorrow morning, I will finally be moving into my first apartment and I’m sure it will be interesting to say the least (read: everything that can go wrong will go wrong). I sent in my application for the property back in March and signed the lease in April. It’s a bit under a mile away [...]

Seems like a better time than any to update on what is new. Final have come and gone, grade posting had finished (with mixed results, but that’s another story) and the new quarter at the university begins in six short days.
.. Returned home for Spring Break, have been engaging in a whole lot of nothing. [...]

Brain-teaser time: is it wiser to invest in network upgrades or to purchase traffic-shaping equipment in a futile effort to combat the inevitable?
This is the issue I can’t seem to understand. At UC Santa Barbara, there is a pool of 200Mb of downstream bandwidth allocated for about 7,000 students. The logical response to that statement [...]