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.
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 free peering. If you or I didn’t pay our bills, we’d get turned off a hell of a lot faster than Cogent was.
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
Everyone seems to blame Bush for the economy; a huge chunk of that is the so-called “housing crisis”. But it does make me wonder, how did Bush make all those people sign for mortgages they couldn’t afford?
I have an 877W that I was learning the ins and outs of configuring IPv6 for the first time on. Sadly, I managed to brick the poor thing and left myself without internet at home (until I get the smartnet rma). Anyway, I posted my tale to the cisco-nsp list and received this helpful config for an 871W.
http://www.andbobsyouruncle.net/wordpress/?p=11
I’ll give it a shot on mine as soon as I get a new one.
I’ve been using OpenOffice on Windows lately and I must say they’ve come a long way from when I first tried it years and year ago. However, their Mac version from openoffice.org requires X11, and well, it’s not as awesome of an experience as it is on Windows.
Fortunately there’s NeoOffice which is very usable for what I’m doing – simple spreadsheets and general word processing. It’s worth a look if you’re interested in OpenOffice on the Mac.
While I’m on the topic of 3ware cards and performance issues (or lack of performance thereof) I thought I’d share this as well:
[SCSI] 3w-9xxx: fix abysmal write performance on some motherboards
The fix is as simple as grabbing the driver source from 3ware and inserting a call to pci_try_set_mwi() right after pci_set_master() as some motherboards won’t do this be default.
Also, there’s a RHEL bug on the same thing that refers to the same fix. This Ubuntu bug also refers to performance issues with a 3ware card. I started looking in to this a bit after reading this thread at Storage Review.
Disclaimer: when I wrote this, I haven’t tried it yet. Your mileage may vary.