Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 28th, 2009
When you want to encourage search engines to index your site, don’t forget the robots.txt you wrote in 2002 that says Disallow: /. It kinda doesn’t help. Both Google and Bing have some interesting tools to help manage your search listings. Both will tell you the last time you were crawled, errors found, and other […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 18th, 2009
It turns out my problems with IPv6-only Net-SNMP wasn’t a problem with snmpd, it was a problem with selinux. After starting with -Dread_config -c /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf it became apparent: snmpd[9026]: registered debug token read_config, 1 snmpd[9028]: /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf: Permission denied snmpd[9028]: /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf: Permission denied snmpd[9028]: Warning: no access control information configured. It’s unlikely this agent can serve […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 13th, 2009
After 170,000 miles the alternator in the truck finally decided to go south. At low (300-400) RPM after coming to a stop, the ammeter would start to droop and the engine would die. I’d have to keep my foot on the gas to keep RPM up. Otherwise while driving and idling it was fine. Fortunately […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 13th, 2009
I finally got around to joining 2002 by using a CMS. For the past eight years I’ve been using a text editor to maintain this site. The goal is to make the content more accessible and see what happens to search engine rankings. A website with in-line images, comments, RSS feeds! It’s gonna be big! […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 8th, 2009
Dusting off old hardware frozen in time: Mar 5 07:23:33 aeris shutdown[26974]: shutting down for system halt
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 8th, 2009
I just discovered a horribly annoying problem with the IPv6 firewall in the Airport Extreme. It doesn’t operate as “let these addresses have access to devices on the home network” (the source). It operates as “let the world access X service on this IPv6 address on my home network” (the destination). After beating my head […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 4th, 2009
[root@nicky bin]# /sbin/ifconfig -a eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:16:3E:69:8E:99 inet6 addr: fe80::216:3eff:fe69:8e99/64 Scope:Link inet6 addr: 2a01:348:0:6:5d59:506a:0:1/64 Scope:Global UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 I turned off IPv4 completely on nicky and suddenly realized a few things: NTP: There’s no v6 NTP servers in the rhel.pool.ntp.org pools. Wound up using Sixxs.net’s pool. CentOS repositories: There’s not […]
