This is a crop from one of the pieces of art Meghan and I looked at in yesterday’s entry. That painting depicted part of the Gila River in the mid-1800s before it got dammed up and regulated. What drew me to this painting wasn’t the well-done technique or the depiction of how things used to be, but that the tree to the upper right of the deer looked sort of like the Flying Spaghetti Monster. I guess this shows I spend entirely too much time on the Net, or something.

Steve wasn’t feeling well yesterday, so the usual Linux get-together didn’t happen. I spent some time trying to set up a test for a problem involving drbd, and ended up stuck on a totally different problem. My attempts to use the traffic-shaping features of iproute2 ended up with horrible results. Whatever I did, I always got an abysmal 15 K/sec sustained transfer rate when I tried to limit traffic on one network interface to 1 MB/sec. Other people have managed to do this. I must be doing something stupid incorrectly.