Word of Nathan

As I’ve occasionally intimated, I have been dabbling in music of various sorts for quite a few years. Recently I picked up the habit again, making mostly trance-influenced stuff. This evening, I took the leap and made a MySpace profile for a couple of my songs, since they get the joy of providing bandwidth and a media player that generally works cross-browser.

If you’re interested in hearing some home-brewed trance, influenced by the likes of ATB, Armin van Buuren, IIO, Oceanlab, and others (albeit instrumental for now), check out the profile at http://www.myspace.com/trancednate and see what you think. Enjoy!

So it’s been about five weeks now since I switched to Dvorak at home. I’m up to 56 WPM now, at 82% accuracy. I’m not going to bother posting any more updates on this topic - the remaining speed and accuracy will require many hours of instant messaging to develop, as did my QWERTY skills when I was first really learning that layout. Switching back and forth between the two layouts is now nearly painless - I have a minute of confusion or so, and then my brain is fine again.

All in all, it’s been a fun time and I have a new skill now. Definitely worth it.

If you are running Linux and you change from a DHCP setup to a static IP address on your local network, and then at some future time your ISP changes your external IP address and your internet slows to a crawl, you might find it useful to know that your resolv.conf file probably contains the old DNS entries set up back when you were using DHCP. It’s a simple matter to change it, but knowing the problem is 99% of this battle. Maybe this will help someone else out there some day who wonders why a Windows box on the same network is chugging along happily but your Linux box is choking. Happy surfing!