Archive for December, 2009
A little windy… Metcheck fail
by bigpresh on Dec.10, 2009, under Uncategorized, WTF
Hmm, Metcheck seem to think it’s going to get a little breezy next week:
Forecasting 305mph winds on Wednesday night? That would be rather far off the wrong end of the Beaufort scale, and I don’t think my fence would take kindly to that :)
Blackberry Bold Christmas wallpapers (480×320)
by bigpresh on Dec.03, 2009, under Uncategorized
I recently upgraded from a Blackberrry Curve to a Blackberry Bold 9000, which has a higher screen resolution (480×320), so I decided to re-do the wallpapers I resized & cropped and shared last year, and figured I may as well share the results.
Below are a selection of wallpapers I chose; some my own photos, the others are taken from various places around the web. I believe them to all be in the public domain but unfortunately I’m not certain, as I didn’t think to note where each one was downloaded from.
Each thumbnail links directly to the full-size 480×320 image, so you can just right-click & “Save Target As” or similar.
Enjoy!
- blackberry-christmas-wallpaper-2
- blackberry-christmas-wallpaper-3
- blackberry-christmas-wallpaper-1
- blackberry-christmas-wallpaper-4
- blackberry-christmas-wallpaper-5
- blackberry-christmas-wallpaper-6
- blackberry-christmas-wallpaper-7
- blackberry-christmas-wallpaper-9
- blackberry-christmas-wallpaper-8
- blackberry-christmas-wallpaper-10
- blackberry-christmas-wallpaper-12
- blackberry-christmas-wallpaper-13
- blackberry-christmas-wallpaper-14
OpenDNS vs Google – speed comparison
by bigpresh on Dec.03, 2009, under Perl, Programming, reviews, System Administration
I read a Twitter post earlier mentioning Google’s public DNS service, and suggesting that it could displace the popular OpenDNS
I thought it would be interesting to do a performance comparison between Google and OpenDNS, to see how they compare. I also decided to include the nameservers of my ISP, Virgin Media, to illustrate whether there are performance gains to be had by changing to OpenDNS (which I primarily use, along with others) or Google, or whether staying with defaults works. (continue reading…)













