Problems with Quality of Service on DD-WRT (and a fix)
Following up on my previous DD-WRT post, I’ve had some problems with Quality of Service on my upgraded router. I am using an Asus WL-500G Premium which has tons of memory and processor power for the job, but occasionally QoS won’t work properly when I’m on a phone call.
DD-WRT ships with two implementations of Quality of Service: HTB and HTSC (known to be buggy). My experience with each over time has been that they both kind of work and then fail miserably. Part of the problem might just be that QoS really complicated, and DD-WRT hasn’t had a release in
The Amazon Kindle
The Amazon Kindle, rules. I’ve had mine since February, and I use it every single day. I was skeptical when I saw the Newsweek cover article comparing Jeff Bezos’ Kindle to Steve Jobs’ iPod. The eBook reader looks a bit dated–like a Casio keyboard from the ’80s. And $399 for a device that lets you spend more money on DRM’ed books from one single retailer?!?
The thing is, I was tired of buying heavy, bulky, dead-tree books–waiting for them to arrive via UPS–only to read them once or