Seems like my ethernet network is doing just fine... It is 1Gbps so I am extremely close to the theoretical maximum throughput - this between a Mac Pro and a MacBook Air using scp:

Yesterday I attempted to make a simple California Roll. I have eaten sushi many times before but never tried to make a roll myself. It was not hard, and actually surprisingly good - as good as any I've had. It is not expensive to make either and enough to feed 4 people (that is, 4 below average people as they call them over here). Here is the result:

I do not normally do reviews - the internet is full of them. Besides - they are usually pointless as they are usually strongly biased. I have been fortunate (or not, depending on your viewpoint) of having owned an Apple Watch since the start of May 2015. It has been three weeks now and I think I am in a position to offer some comments on the watch's usefulness.

The Ugly

I tried to copy some large files (500MB+) from a remote location... In fact, it is very remote - exactly on the other side of the world. Using standard pppd in Ubuntu, I established a PPTP VPN connection to the server. However every time I tried copying the file it would randomly stall at 2% - 30% and then the PPP connection would drop. Errors such as these showed up:

May 11 15:25:16 waldopcl pptp[2354]: anon log[decaps_gre:pptp_gre.c:414]: buffering packet 1423724 (expecting 1423723, lost or reordered)
May 11 15:25:25 waldopcl pptp[2354]: anon log[decaps_gre:pptp_gre.c:414]: buffering packet 1426544 (expecting 1426543, lost or reordered)
May 11 15:25:31 waldopcl pptp[2354]: anon log[decaps_gre:pptp_gre.c:414]: buffering packet 1428269 (expecting 1428268, lost or reordered)
May 11 15:25:40 waldopcl pptp[2354]: anon log[decaps_gre:pptp_gre.c:414]: buffering packet 1431253 (expecting 1431252, lost or reordered)
...

It is clear to me that the link for some reason did not support the speed at which the sending side thought it could send packets. Somewhere the MTU or window size was incorrectly negotiated. I tried lowering MTU but it made no difference. In the end, what worked for me was to notice the transfer rate it was trying to send packets at, and then forcefully lowering it. It still produced dropped packets, however since the rate of transmission is slower it seems to keep up - I have been copying 2GB of files without a disconnect so far:

I just rendered an article I was writing in LaTeX, to PDF on my Apple Mac Pro. This worked fine - the PDF opened up in Preview and looked perfect. So I tried printing it on my LaserJet printer - but with horrible results. Font was wrong, spacing incorrect and symbols were missing. Look:

It took me 30 minutes but eventually I figured out the problem - it was not with my printer or the PDF document (all fonts were correctly embedded), however the issue seems to be Preview that sucks.