As I just mentioned, nothing exciting happens around here. That is, until a transformer at a substation blows up and lights everything in range on fire. I apologize for my craptastic cell phone camera, it’s unfortunately all I had with me at the time. Before it blew, the lights had been flickering occasionally for several […]
Nothing exciting ever happens here. While the rest of the country has had ice storms, floods, tornadoes, gas shortages, hurricanes, rolling blackouts and more in recent months, absolutely nothing has happened here in good ol’ Reno.
It looks like whoever designed Google’s new favicon took the Windows logo, rotated it 90 degrees, got rid of the gradients, and stuck a lowercase “g” on it. Good job. (Not.)
Here’s how I put a Xen DomU on a VLAN in Debian. eth0 is connected to a trunk port on the switch, and the untagged vlan is used for dom0 connectivity. You shoud already know how to do this part. Tagged VLANs are assigned to bridge groups on the dom0. In your /etc/network/interfaces do the […]
The shuttle is cool, but unfortunately the backdrop is this horrible wind farm visual abortion. (Source: Spaceflight Now) That’s not Florida, you say? You’re right. This is one of the extremely rare instances where the shuttle landed in California due to weather at the primary landing site.
NASA Administrator Mike Griffin, answering questions from Kennedy Space Center workers during an “all hands” meeting today, said he does not expect the Obama administration to keep him on as head of the nation’s civilian space agency. http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0811/13griffin/
https://www.sprint.net/cogent.php Based on Cogent’s history of fucking up a peering session, routing any traffic destined for their former peer into a black hole, then crying and screaming about it, I tend to believe Sprint’s version of events. In this case, it seems Cogent was refusing to pay their bills because they didn’t qualify for settlement […]
As you may or may not be aware, Sprint and Cogent have engaged in a sparring match over peering. The two networks are currently isolated from each other. I recommend reading this interesting summary of the situation: Wrestling With the Zombie: Sprint Depeers Cogent, Internet Partitioned