Fri Jan 1 00:00:28 CST 2010
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 1st, 2010
First post of the decade! And to think 10 years ago I was waiting for the digital world to end when 2000 rolled around. Long live 2038!
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Catching up
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 […]
I hate selinux
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 […]
Alternator replacement
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 […]
Web 1.4
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! […]
Bringing aeris back to life
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
Airport Extreme IPv6 firewall
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 […]
What’s missing in IPv6 land
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 […]
IPv6 connected VPSes
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 […]
Hurr durr web progress meter
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 […]
