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Friday, Apr 27 2007

RR

Playing with RoadRunner high speed cable service at home this evening. Surprisingly hard to get the cable modem to work, had to end up resetting it, it was probably configured wrong from a previous installation. I have both DSL and cable right now. I am sort of giving up on Verizon getting their FIOS service ready on my street (although I keep thinking it can't be much longer, they busted the street to install fiber a few months ago) and I will probably cancel it in the coming weeks. RR easily hits 7 to 10 Mbps, feels very fast.

I have to figure out the logistics of all the cables I have running across the living room. Now that the RR broadband is working, I am going to plug in the digital VOIP phones. They said it might take up to 5 business days to transfer my number, but I already got an email from Verizon saying they have been requested to transfer it over.

BTW, in case I haven't mentioned it before, my favorite speed test is Speakeasy's


Slava dies

World-renowned Russian classical musician and Soviet-era dissident Mstislav Rostropovich has died. The conductor, composer and cellist died early Friday, in a Moscow hospital after a long battle with cancer. He was 80. He was considered to be one of the greatest cellists ever.

Rostropovich became an anti-communist civil rights activist during Russia's Soviet rule. He became a friend of dissident author and Nobel laureate Alexander Solzhenitsyn. Rostropovich left the Soviet Union with his family in 1974, going into exile in Paris. Four years later, Communist authorities stripped him of his citizenship. Rostropovich was the music director of Washington's National Symphony Orchestra from 1977 to 1994. His Russian citizenship was restored after the collapse of the Soviet Union. After that, Rostropovich divided his time between Russia, the United States and France.

Mstislav Rostropovich

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