Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 2nd, 2009
Today’s perl frustration: swatch. 3.1.1’s man page states it supports thresholds in N seconds. This is contradicted by a Debian bug report that claims it’s a bad man page and to use “throttle threshold” instead. Looking at the code, it mentions “^threshold” in several places so that’s not even right. Turns out threshold per-second isn’t […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 17th, 2009
From http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/RJRAY/RPC-XML-0.66/README.apache2: At present, this package does not work with Apache2 and the soon-to-be mod_perl2. The changes to the API for location handlers are too drastic to try and support both within the same class (I tried, using the compatibility layer). Also, mp2 does not currently provide support for sections, which are the real strength […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 15th, 2009
I have a new apartment at Riata in the works. I originally didn’t consider it because my coworkers had me believe it was super expensive, but after actually checking it out, it wasn’t bad at all. I had put down an application fee at another property, and was quite excited about it, but eventually started […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 15th, 2009
I’ve been reading wiki about Tulsa and it seems to be such a distant time and place. I’ve been back several times since moving to Austin and I’m an outsider with no ties to it anymore. I can barely remember what it was like to live there for four years. I’m sitting here looking at […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 22nd, 2009
It took right at nine months, but I finally finished reading The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life. Why, that averages out to 100 pages a month!
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 13th, 2009
The truck has been in the shop all week and I’ve realized it’s a great way to save money and diet. All of a sudden, shopping and cheeseburgers are not convienient. Lots of bike riding in the meantime. This morning I feasted at Taco Shack and loaded my backpack full of groceries from Randalls. This […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 3rd, 2009
I learned two things this week. The first being the reason why my 2611 broke at home after a day. I had an ACL on my egress interface that blocked DHCP traffic so my router could never renew its lease. The other was how to get back to my apartment from 360 on a bicycle. […]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 18th, 2009
For lovers of storing IP addresses as integers in MySQL tables, there’s a snag when doing this for IPv6 addresses. A 128-bit number is too big to stuff into a BIGINT type. All Fs integer equivalent is 340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,455. An unsigned BIGINT tops out at 18,446,744,073,709,551,615. These are your options: Store it as a VARCHAR(39) in […]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 16th, 2009
So here’s a traceroute to the anycast 6to4 address from my parents’ place. It winds up in Frankfurt, Germany! Their upstream, MBO is multihomed to Level3 and Sprint. I assume they’re defaulting to Level3, since the path to the Sprint 6to4 is 120 ms. traceroute to 192.88.99.1 (192.88.99.1), 64 hops max, 40 byte packets 1 […]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 13th, 2009
A big thing that I see a lot in the content and service provider world, when some outage or negative event happens the line is always “we apologize for the inconvenience.” This is another saying that irritates me to no end. I say this because over the past 36 hours tifa’s host, The Planet, had […]
