Hacked and Tethered iPhone 3G Speed Test

My friend and I just benchmarked a tethered 3G iPhone connected on the 3G network. Quite impressive throughput for a cell network. It actually felt like I was surfing on wifi. Now if they would just make this free and officially supported, I would be one happy customer and perhaps I might feel like I was getting my money's worth from my cellular phone provider. I've never felt that way before.

OSX Screen Sharing Bug

I accidentally shared my laptop's screen with my desktop and my desktop's screen with my laptop. The result was psychadelic man! Don't do it though. Both machines hosed.

Ubuntu Install: Buffer I/O Error on Device SR0

Installing Ubuntu has been a bit of a challenge due to errors reading from my optical drive.  I was able to get through some installs successfully with a CD burned with Ubuntu but in most cases it fails while trying to read from the CD before the install is finished.  I tried moving devices around on the IDE cable, burning the disc at a slower speed, verifying the disc burned correctly, making sure the ISO image checksums correctly.  It just appears that the drive I'm using to burn the disc or the media I'm using just isn't compatible with my Ubuntu machine's drive.  The one thing that did work is using DVD media instead of CD media.  If you're having the same problem, I recommend giving this a shot.