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Oh Peanut Butter how I miss you.

unixwiz — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 17:39:09 +0000

With the recent massive recall of peanut butter because of Salmonella Typhimurium outbreak it is making me wonder if that wasn’t what made me sick a week or so ago. The FDA has published a list of Peanut Butter based products that have been recalled so far. That list is here They also have a massive 27 page list of products that have been recalled in PDF format. Here is a copy of that: peanutbutterproducts2009.

I hope they get this sorted out soon, cause right now I am really craving some peanut butter…

Update to comcast speed

unixwiz — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 23:05:46 +0000

So the other night when I was testing the speed’s I was doing it with my MacBook Pro on the wireless.. Tonight I decided to do it from the desktop that is wired in at 100mb/s link, here are the results:

Pretty darn nice…. The weird part is I think my comcast connection goes through DC instead of Pittsburgh. On the Pittsburgh comcast speed test I get 20mb/s right off the bat, but then it drops down to about 13 / 14 mb… on the DC test it stays around 20 until the last couple of seconds and then drops down to 19.94, but I think that is just the finishing of the file. So it looks like even though Pittsburgh is geographicly closer the route to dc may be bigger.

The Pittsburgh test site is in summit park, which funny as it is only 5 hops from my house. The DC test site is in Manassas VA, which is at least 9 hops.

To get from my house to the DC test site, it goes thorugh pittsburgh ph, cleveland oh, pittsbugh pa, mclean va, and then capitlhights maryland.

To get from my house to the Pittsburgh test site,just 5 hops, and it is there. both of the ones out side of morgantown are in pittsburgh..

Very weird

Comcast Morgantown Lineup

unixwiz — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 19:59:19 +0000

Today I set out to map out how the channels are assigned on the morgantown comcast system. I have been having problems getting MHD, Showtime HD and MLB network. Come to find out they are all on the same frequency (99.000 MHz). I had talked to Comcast last night and they sent a tech out today. He came, but we were unable to find out why those three channels would not come in. The receiver would show a 0 db signal strength. We replaced all the ends from the pole to the receiver. Even ran a temp cable across the road from the pole to the receiver, still did not work. So now they have to send some one else out to check the lines further up the street. One thing I did notice while outside, is that WCLG (100.1 FM) had a harmonic showing up as low as 98.5 and then there were more in the 99.x range, so I bet that is the cause of the problem, is that some how that station has entered in to the system some how..

Any ways for those who are bored beyond belief and would like to know the actual frequencies of each of the channels, here they are ( they are grouped by the EIA channel, So you can see how many digital channels are on one physical analog channel)

Cable Channel	Name	Freq	EIA Channel
2	kdka	57	2
3	lmorg	63	3
4	wtae	69	4
5	wdtv	75	5
6	wpgh	85	6
8	wnpb	183	8
9	wpmy	189	9
10	qvc	195	10
11	wpxi	201	11
12	wboy	207	12
13	wqed	213	13
14	wvfx	123	14
15	gov	129	15
16	wpcb	135	16
17	hn	141	17
18	tbn	147	18
19	versu	153	19
21	inspa	165	21
22	cw	171	22
23	hsn	219	23
25	cspan	231	25
27	wgn	243	27
28	twc	249	28
29	life	255	29
30	speed	261	30
31	hist	267	31
32	cnn	273	32
33	foxn	279	33
34	tbs	285	34
35	espn	291	35
36	espn2	297	36
37	fosxp	303	37
38	golf	309	38
39	food	315	39
40	anp	321	40
41	disn	327	41
42	nick	333	42
43	a&e	339	43
44	pcnc	345	44
45	cnbc	351	45
46	cmt	357	46
47	fx	363	47
48	vh1	369	48
49	mtv	375	49
50	fam	381	50
51	comedy	387	51
52	tlc	393	52
53	disc	399	53
54	scifi	405	54
55	usa	411	55
56	tnt	417	56
57	bravo	423	57
58	hgtv	429	58
59	spike	435	59
60	tvland	441	60
61	cart	447	61
62	trav	453	62
63	amc	459	63
64	bet	465	64
710	wpcwh	471	65
70	style	501	70
471	btn1	507	71
472	btn2	507	71
473	btn3	507	71
474	btn4	507	71
267	btn	513	72
255	hallm	519	73
259	trutv	519	73
264	tvg	519	73
265	ewtn	519	73
266	msnbc	519	73
1	od	585	84
199	ondemand	585	84
298	free movies	585	84
299	hbood	585	84
339	aod	585	84
487	hdod	585	84
488	free hd od	585	84
490	hd pri	585	84
491	hd music od	585	84
499	movies od	585	84
501	espn1	585	84
502	espn2	585	84
503	espn3	585	84
504	espn4	585	84
505	espn5	585	84
506	espn6	585	84
510	fear	585	84
887	shop	585	84
888	searchlight 888	585	84
889	auto	585	84
891		585	84
892	iad24	585	84
893	iad25	585	84
900	on d	585	84
901	stzod	585	84
902	encod	585	84
903	shod	585	84
904	tmcod	585	84
906	hbod	585	84
907	maxod	585	84
909	hd od	585	84
912	playod	585	84
914	espanol od	585	84
115	bio	591	85
116	histi	591	85
126	snbcd	591	85
138	fuse	591	85
147	ifc	591	85
300	info	591	85
301	ind01	591	85
302	ind02	591	85
303	ind03	591	85
304	ind04	591	85
305	ind05	591	85
306	ind06	591	85
307	ind07	591	85
340	play	591	85
341	playb	591	85
342	jenna	591	85
343	fresh	591	85
344	xcess	591	85
345	hotch	591	85
426	mc26	591	85
117	toond	597	86
118	soap	597	86
120	nategeo	597	86
122	speed	597	86
125	fsc	597	86
131	espnc	597	86
146	foxm	597	86
165	real	597	86
185	cspan3	597	86
410	mc10	597	86
413	mc13	597	86
414	mc14	597	86
415	mc15	597	86
105	disch	603	87
109	bbc	603	87
132	esnw	603	87
134	diy	603	87
135	living	603	87
163	lmn	603	87
209	foxb	603	87
242	oxyg	603	87
101	disck	609	88
102	dics	609	88
103	green	609	88
104	disct	609	88
106	milt	609	88
128	bit	609	88
129	g4ttv	609	88
130	fit	609	88
140	we	609	88
233	sprou	609	88
405	mc05	609	88
406	mc06	609	88
418	mc18	609	88
435	mc35	609	88
137	mtv2	615	89
139	mtvjams	615	89
143	cmtpc	615	89
144	vh1cl	615	89
148	nogin	615	89
152	the n	615	89
153	nick2	615	89
154	nickt	615	89
155	vh1s	615	89
160	mtvh	615	89
161	logo	615	89
408	mc08	615	89
411	mc11	615	89
417	mc17	615	89
424	mc24	615	89
107	current	621	90
127	out	621	90
158	word	621	90
164	sund	621	90
167	gac	621	90
221	show	621	90
222	show2	621	90
223	show3	621	90
231	tmc	621	90
235	flix	621	90
401	mc01	621	90
404	mc04	621	90
409	mc09	621	90
419	mc19	621	90
156	gmc	627	91
176	sitv	627	91
186	spman	627	91
248	ence	627	91
250	love	627	91
252	west	627	91
254	myst	627	91
256	drama	627	91
258	actn	627	91
260	wam	627	91
273	tmaxe	627	91
420	mc20	627	91
423	mc23	627	91
431	mc31	627	91
201	hbo	633	92
202	hbo2e	633	92
203	hbo3	633	92
204	hbofe	633	92
205	hboce	633	92
206	hboze	633	92
241	starz	633	92
243	stzed	633	92
244	stzkf	633	92
245	starzc	633	92
247	stzib	633	92
402	mc02	633	92
403	mc03	633	92
421	mc21	633	92
422	mc22	633	92
433	mc33	633	92
224	showx	639	93
232	tmc2	639	93
270	max	639	93
271	max2e	639	93
272	amaxe	639	93
425	mc25	639	93
442	mc42	639	93
443	mc43	639	93
444	mc44	639	93
124	mlb	99	96
189	mhd	99	96
751	shohd	99	96
136	cnbcb	105	97
166	fuel	105	97
207	hbola	105	97
208	hbow	105	97
274	maxw	105	97
98	e!	111	98
767	verhd	117	99
769	btnhd	117	99
416	mc16	651	100
427	mc27	651	100
428	mc28	651	100
429	mc29	651	100
434	mc34	651	100
436	mc36	651	100
445	mc45	651	100
446	mc46	651	100
447	mc47	651	100
448	mc48	651	100
703	wscan	651	100
150	tvone	657	101
227	ionli	657	101
407	mc07	657	101
412	mc12	657	101
420	mc30	657	101
432	mc32	657	101
437	mc37	657	101
438	mc38	657	101
439	mc39	657	101
440	mc40	657	101
441	mc41	657	101
108	gcn	663	102
113	ilife	663	102
141	tcm	663	102
184	cspan2	663	102
228	ion	663	102
229	qubo	663	102
253	mplex	663	102
262	iplex	663	102
263	rplex	663	102
774	fsnhd	681	105
198	tbshd	687	106
775	tnthd	687	106
100	weather and traffic 4	693	107
700	wqedd	693	107
701	wqedn	693	107
704	abchd	693	107
713	pbshd	693	107
110	rtn	699	108
111	wxplus	699	108
702	cbshd	699	108
711	nbchd	699	108
706	foxhd	705	109
707	pmyhd	705	109
772	espnhd	711	110
773	espn2hd	711	110
192	aehd	717	111
193	hgtvhd	717	111
752	starzhd	717	111
191	foodh	723	112
194	uhd	723	112
780	scihd	723	112
190	hatgeohd	729	113
195	usahd	729	113
779	hddsc	729	113
196	histh	735	114
776	dschd	735	114
782	anphd	735	114
750	hbohd	741	115
753	maxhd	741	115
783	tlchd	741	115
197	cnnhd	747	116
754	amchd	747	116
770	golfhd	747	116
715	dishd	753	117
716	famhd	753	117
718	hdsci	753	117
740	eod	753	117
768	spdhd	759	118
784	fxhd	759	118
785	foxnhd	759	118
800	dvr	759	118
886	ent	759	118

Comcast Cable modem Speed upgrade

unixwiz — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 03:51:39 +0000

It seems that comcast has raised the download and upload speed on some of the segments in morgantown. I did not notice it as I had QoS turned on my router. I turned it off tonight and now get 12+ meg down and 3+ meg up…. It is nice to be finally able to upload pictures to Flickr and not have to wait all day. I did 11 2Meg pictures in about 1 minute tonight.

How to make a …

unixwiz — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 00:42:39 +0000

Since I have some time off from work, I decided to make some antenna’s to try and get some local HDTV signals. Tonight I was looking for some UHF bowtie plans, so off to google and I started typing in “how to make a ” and this is what the auto search showed me.. Thought it was kind of interseting what showed up.

No wonder it is cold outside

unixwiz — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 22:59:20 +0000

This week the weather has went from 77 degrees to 40… I think it is beause Com(pression)cast has actually done something good… They finally made the local broadcast channels that are in clear QAM show up on the channel numbers they should be. So instead of using 108.2201 for the local NBC affiliate, now you just have to use 11.1 which makes much more sense. Now if they would just make the rest of the channels in the clear it would really make my day.

Who makes this lamp?

unixwiz — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 02:30:57 +0000

When I was in Denmark I stayed at Copenhagen Island. They had a really cool bed side lamp/table that I forgot to try and see if there were any markings on it for who made it. Does any one know who makes this? It is really cool as it has a motion sensor in the base of it that when tripped will light up a LED light that points towards the ground. Was one of the neatest things I have seen in a while. I would like to find out who makes them and if they are available in the US.

Interesting day

unixwiz — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 02:20:44 +0000

Funny how on this day last year we had a big snow storm and once again this year it is snowing outside on the same day. Only difference is this time last year I was in Orlando FL where it was nice and warm and having fun, and this year I am at home and far from having fun any more. The snow did not start today till about 2PM, whereas last year the snow was already on the ground and there was about 3 or 4 inches of it already. Funny how somethings change in a year and some don’t.

Identity Theft made easy

unixwiz — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 02:20:23 +0000

In this day and age where every one is trying to prevent identity theft it is extremely surprising to hear police officers read out a persons full name, social security number and make/color of car with the car’s license plate over a unencrypted radio channel. You would think that there would be rules against this, but obviously they must be thinking that there is no way for any one else to hear this traffic. Some times it just makes you wonder why there hasn’t been any sort of encryption put on the police bands so that normal people can’t hear this type of stuff.

Solaris at the local book store

unixwiz — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 05:12:31 +0000

Was at the local barnes and noble looking through the magazine section to see if anything caught my eye, and low and behold look what I saw:

Yup Solaris Express in DVD form attached to the front of a Linux magazine. This was nice to see since I usually always see one of those rag’s with the “distro of the week ®” on it..