Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 26th, 2024
Here’s one for the future troubleshooting seekers. I was testing IPv4 UEFI PXE booting a Supermicro A1SAi motherboard after applying the Atom 2550 fix and couldn’t get the thing to load the network bootstrap program (NBP). I’m not at all saying this is the only reason for hitting a PXE-E99 error, this is just what […]
Posted in Uncategorized, vintage on Aug 26th, 2024
This is part of the project to connect my Wildcat! BBS to a retro X.25 network, but it also applies more broadly to “reverse telnet” operation of a Cisco router where you telnet/ssh to a router at a given port to access a serial device hanging off of the aux or a terminal line. I […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 28th, 2024
I was recently expanding my analog voice empire and noticed my Cisco ATA191 was blinking like it was rebooting, and coming back. Looking at logs it was indeed warm rebooting and SIP re-registering every few minutes. I ruled out a duplicate IP address, and it never missed a ping. I was wondering if the VoIP […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 15th, 2024
Many years ago I was out of the country turning up a new site. Along with racks of servers we had a pair of cabinets shipped to us that contained Cisco 6509s, patch panels, with 300+ ports pre-mounted, pre-cabled, and tested from our main US site. This was a weeks long project and we were […]
Posted in retro, Uncategorized on May 25th, 2024
[photos: flickr – 1995 Tape backup pulls] Data has been recovered from my 1995 backup tapes! After badly mangling one of my three QIC-80 backup tapes trying to repair it to make it readable, I gave up before I screwed them up even more. Finally a couple of weeks ago I contacted Dmitry Brant, who […]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 24th, 2024
TL;DR so awesome, so much room for activities I should have done this years ago This is such an exciting game-changing, lifestyle change! I moved my desk! Ever since I moved in years ago into my small apartment my desk has always been in my bedroom, where in my place in Redmond it had been […]
Posted in rant, Uncategorized on May 13th, 2024
(Rant warning) TL;DR I gripe at how complicated it gets and offer no solutions. I really do like what Let’s Encrypt offers. Just getting there figuring out what options work and don’t work is work. I don’t know how the muggles manage it. TL;DR 2: HTTP-01 was out because of internal sites. DNS-01 was the […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 13th, 2024
The pandemic, work from home, and layoffs have put a damper on my driving. I would easily put 15-20k miles a year on the truck, in Feburary 2022 I hit 380,000 miles, and I just rolled 389,000 miles, so 9k in 2 years. I figured I’d pass 400,000 by now. I also now have my […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 9th, 2023
I guess sometimes you have to challenge your assumptions and just try things. For years and years at home and and in Oklahoma I have been running Hurricane Electric’s Tunnelbroker tunnels to get IPv6 to my networks. At the time when I set them up, everything said the 6in4 tunnel (specifically IP protocol 41) wouldn’t […]
Posted in Uncategorized, vintage on Nov 16th, 2023
This year’s project has been running a vintage DOS-based bulletin board system like I use to run in 1995 before I started my ISP. I’m running Wildcat! 4.20 Multiline 10, the same as I did back then, except now under Windows 7 32-bit instead of Windows 95. It has real US Robotics Courier modems that […]
