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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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, […]
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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?
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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. […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 22nd, 2009
All of a sudden it dawned on my last night that I leave for Burning Man next Friday. For whatever reason I thought I had another week. I blame my calendar for pointing at the day the man burns, and not when I leave. So, today I ran a bunch of errands picking up some […]
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