We lost to the same team as last week, but not by as much. We're getting better.

We had two substitutes today, which meant that we all got more of a rotation.

My right knee is sore, so I'm going to take it easy over the weekend, and get some strapping so I can still run with Mark, and play soccer next week. I don't think running on Sunday for 40 minutes and then dancing all night on it helped. I hope I don't have any serious problems with my knees - it does run in the family.

The highlight of tonight's game was me full-on throwing a dude over the 3-foot high baricades, and not getting a yellow card! Mario the referee did tell me to watch my tackles though ;)

I often use the "--limit=20k" parameter to wget when I'm at work and want to download something and not affect our SSH connections. Unfortunately, apt-get doesn't have a rate-limiting parameter, so when I have 100MB of updates to pull in it can bog things down.

I found trickle, and it is packaged for Ubuntu/Hoary :)

mlambie@stormshadow:~$ sudo trickle -s -d 20 apt-get dist-upgrade

The throttling isn't 100% stable - it jumps around from 10-30kb/sec, but that's fine for my use.

Steve is ordering/won on eBay some cards that you use to make VIOP PBX systems. If you're interested in any, they're about $25 each and he'll need to know soon.

I think I might put one of the cards in the Qube, and turn it into a sexy-PBX. It has a single PCI slot and the cards are well supported under Linux.

I'm not sure what's funnier: the fact that I paid $20 for six pieces of red rubber, or the fact that they came with a piece of paper outlining the online support available for this product.

I have a Radeon Mobility 7500 in my ThinkPad R40. I tried using the fglrx drivers, but they don't support the card I have so it didn't work. As a half-solution I found that adding the following to my /ext/X11/xorg.conf increased my glxgears output from 610 FPS to 830 FPS. Nice and simple way to gain 35% performance boost!

Option "AGPMode" "4"
Option "AGPFastWrite" "True"
Option "EnablePageFlip" "True"

Note, you add the above to the video card's device section.