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Today’s bit of advice: before you wade too deep in going cross-eyed staring at routing tables that seem to be good, trying to figure out why half of your LAN is unreachable, check to see if the freaking second network cable is plugged in.
Posting this in the hopes that it’ll help someone at some point…. Using Apache (Apache2 in my case, but I’m not sure it matters), you can customize the format for log files like access_log. Apache has a good page describing the variables you can use. But it doesn’t tell you everything you need to know! [...]
In the most recent polls, Obama is leading narrowly in New Hampshire. And it’s practically a banal phrase at this point, but Iowa is a crapshoot: the “big three” (Edwards, Clinton, and Obama) are pretty much tied. Right now it looks like Edwards is leading, which people thought was unlikely. Thus I’m not too worried [...]
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30 Dec 2007I’d been seeing a lot about HDR, or High Dynamic Range, photography. In layman’s terms, the dynamic range of a camera is the range from the darkest to the lightest parts a camera can record in one shot. The problem is that the dynamic range of cameras doesn’t match real life that often. Long ago, [...]
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28 Dec 2007We’ve been having a lot of intermittent network problems at home. Periodically, our Internet cuts out. At first I assumed it was our ISP–it’s no longer Adelphia (run by pharmacists), though–but subsequent research indicated that it wasn’t our ISP’s fault: our router was going down. My dad set it all up, so I wasn’t too [...]
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28 Dec 2007I confess to being ignorant enough to have not even heard of her, but Benazir Bhutto was a really interesting figure. Now here’s an interesting video. You learn a few things. The first is that she speaks fluent English. The second is that she was widely aware of plots to kill her, and fingers a [...]
(Okay, it works in chronological order, but I display newest on top… So just pretend my title complements Kyle’s.) I wasn’t planning on blogging about my Christmas presents, but Kyle did and I decided to save some stuff for a new post. I was much relieved when the former bishop of Turkey brought a Rebel [...]
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23 Dec 2007I learned two valuable lessons today: Don’t ever create a 500GB FAT partition. No matter how good of an idea it seems, don’t do it. (Not terribly different is the advice, “Don’t ever create one big 500GB partition.”) Mounting a filesystem as “msdos” is not the same as mounting it as “vfat” in Linux. msdos [...]
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23 Dec 2007A few years ago Andy and I ran a hosting company. It never got that far, but it was fun, and also a learning experience. Today I’m finding that I can’t get the idea of starting it again out of my head. The problem is that, this time, I’d want to start it big. There [...]
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22 Dec 2007Thanks Rusty for finding the Electoral-Vote.com website, something I’d forgotten about from the 2004 election. The data is in a bit of a confusing layout… Disregard the 2004 map and the first little table. He then has a comprehensive list of polls state-by-state. My eyes are on Clinton:Obama. And I seriously have knots in my [...]