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 […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 25th, 2009
Being the annoying IPv6 evangelist I am at work (I turned up our first dual-stack and v6 load balanced “hello world” webserver last week), I wanted more viewpoints of native IPv6 connectivity to play with. Turns out there’s only three or four peeps that sell virtual private server (VPS) with native IPv6 connectivity in the […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 24th, 2009
It’s the small victories that make life interesting. I’ve been writing a couple of web tools at work that run off to do a bunch of SNMP polling of a device and display the results. On big devices, particularly overseas, this can take several seconds to finish. In the meantime the browser throbber is throbbing […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 1st, 2009
Two surprising developments. First, I’ve never been a fan of scary movies. I don’t really care one way or another since I know they’re entertainment designed to elicit a response. You know, like calling your mom a whore. Last night I watched Paranormal Activity with Brady and Suzanne. I thought it was a good movie, […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 12th, 2009
This morning between 4 AM and 6 AM I dreamed I was on a conference call with one of our more, ahem, detailed and involved, clients. I’m pretty sure it was a full two hours worth of troubleshooting because I woke up mentally exhausted. When’s vacation?
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 10th, 2009
I’m finally all moved into my new apartment in Riata. It’s taking forever to get the last of the stuff put away. I like this place a lot more than I did the other one. Oddly enough it doesn’t “feel” new. I guess I’m into my daily routine so much that the “where” is inconsequential. […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 8th, 2009
Aftermath BM affected me a bit on the personal level this year. We always giggled at the “welcome home” mantra, because “home has running water.” This being the 4th time, BRC did feel like home. I really wanted to be there. I was glad to be there. It felt great to get out and mingle […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 27th, 2009
I put off writing about my Burning Man trip because I’ve been in the middle of moving. I loaded up early Friday morning and after a couple of last last minute errands, I was on the road by 9:30. I made excellent time all the way to New Mexico where I had my first adventure […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 24th, 2009
I had an interesting encounter with another resident tonight. I was outside crimping a terminal by hitting it with a hammer on the curb, and there was a couple of guys talking by the pool one on a motorcycle. I’m tapping away, he calls out “hey! who’s making that noise, motherfucker!” He starts up his […]
