A Visualization Study for MANET Performance Metrics

I thought I'd post my presentation(s) from my summer internship over here; It was a really cool summer at MIT Lincoln Laboratories. And since my work was all unclassified... Have fun checkin' it out!

C Lydick. "A Visualization Study for MANET Performance Metrics."

Basically: I ended up taking the PCAP and GPS data from one of the Dartmouth Experiments on Crawdad and extracted the metrics in an attempt to find underlying multivariate relationships between network metrics. I think we did. :-)

Let me know if you've got questions/comments. I may end up posting the memo that accompanies this presentation -- we'll have to see.

Roadtrip & Latitude Part 2!

OK, since it was such a success... and really helpful for those who were curious about where I was...

I'll post this again.





BTW... The icon looks funny. I'm going to see if I can adjust that...

I just cleared my cookies...oh, wait...I missed some!

I'm not one of those uber-paranoid people that wipes out my cookies each time I close my browser. Quite frankly, I just don't care that much.

But little did I know, that little "Clear Cookies" button can miss a few here and there.

According to this article it is possible for websites to use Flash-based cookies to track you, and they aren't cleared out with the normal button.

You actually need a Firefox Add-on like BetterPrivacy, or even an extra application like CClearner.


Yet another bit of proof that the best way to ensure security is to not rely on the "comfort" of the Erase button.

Oops...I forgot how to Administer

Forgotten administrator passwords can be a pain -- especially in Windows.

Here's one method for resetting it if you've forgotten it.

Remove Unhelpful Help

I hate that stupid "Help & Support" option on the Start Menu.

• Click Start->Run and type 'Regedit.exe'


• Navigate to the following location:
  
  HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Explorer \ Advanced



• In the right-pane, create a new REG_DWORD value named 'NoStartMenuHelp'


• Double-click 'NoStartMenuHelp' and set it's value to '1'


• Close Regedit.

Thanks winxptutor.com for the help!

ROADTRIP and Latitude!

So, I'm only going to have the following code active for a few weeks... For obvious reasons. So, here it goes:

*edit* Now I've posted the image as of Monday June 22 -- no longer will it update my status!!



This is my location from my G1 - and this way anyone/everyone can track me as I take my trip across the US from Seattle to Boston. :) I was glad to see that I didn't have to hack anything on the Google Latitude page -- they made it pretty seamless to integrate Latitude into your blog via their badge feature. Cool, huh?

Disable Auto-waste-your-time

In light of the Conficker virus, and because I was sick of my computer looking for something to "run" every time I plugged in my USB drive, I wanted to post this awesome guide on Disabling AutoRun

This shows you the Policy Editor -- which is an extremely powerful tool that all in-depth users should get to know. Be careful with it!