Comments on: Connectivity hell, Part III

By: Daniel Jalkut

Daniel Jalkut — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 14:37:00 +0000

@Ivan: Thanks for recommending MarsEdit. It sounds like Doc would certainly like to get to the bottom of the real problem here, but it’s true that a client such as MarsEdit would help with the repeated client-server communication that happens in the web interface.

@judi: essentially a client application does exactly what you are suggesting, but makes it easier since you type everything into similar fields as you would on the blog interface. When done, you just click “Send” and it’s published.

By: dave taht

dave taht — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 08:06:16 +0000

I vastly prefer to edit almost everything offline, in emacs. I do gather large numbers of urls while online (a research phase) and later edit them down into a given set of articles. (a writing phase that is independent of the net entirely)

It really bothers me that so many people are so dependent on the internet for every second of work, and become dysfunctional, unable to plan or act, without it. One EMP and the Millenial generation will die off inside of a week.

Just to amuse myself, I just pinged google from where I live in Nicaragua…

64 bytes from gw-in-f104.google.com (74.125.67.104): icmp_seq=1 ttl=46 time=68.3 ms
64 bytes from gw-in-f104.google.com (74.125.67.104): icmp_seq=2 ttl=46 time=65.7 ms
64 bytes from gw-in-f104.google.com (74.125.67.104): icmp_seq=3 ttl=46 time=67.9 ms
64 bytes from gw-in-f104.google.com (74.125.67.104): icmp_seq=4 ttl=46 time=72.4 ms
64 bytes from gw-in-f104.google.com (74.125.67.104): icmp_seq=5 ttl=46 time=67.3 ms

:snark:
Move to the third world! Take advantage of proven 3rd and 4th generation technology, instead of all that oversold first generation crap that the big Corporations of America are still trying to get you pay for.

By: Zakk

Zakk — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 07:00:58 +0000

Latency can be attributed to a leak somewhere, when the lead tech comes out ask if he can do a leak check around your residence or on the tap coming into your stub box. Unless they’ve done this all ready. Overall it sounds like an issue for engineering to baffle over.

By: judi

judi — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 04:24:48 +0000

Doc,

I suggest you treat blogging as if you were offline: write all of your posts in TextEdit (or Coda or Dreamweaver). At the bottom of each post, write a new line of your tags, comma separated.

When you do connect to your blog, type in the subject, copy and paste the body, move the tags, select categories, and press Publish. Voila, less hassle, more words!

By: John Davey

John Davey — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 04:19:06 +0000

Doc, can you VPN into another net (Harvard’s or Linux Journal’s) and just port your work through a VM or a remote desktop? Might make it a bit more tolerable… Redirect Firefox through an SSL connection to another net? sumpthin’?

By: Ivan Stegic

Ivan Stegic — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 23:56:29 +0000

Doc, have you tried using a Wordpress client app like MarsEdit on your Mac? You might be a better option at beating the latency issues you’re having. Just a thought… http://www.red-sweater.com/marsedit/