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Monthly Archives April 2010

Verizon customer support is crap

RANT ALERT! I’m writing this post as I’m waiting in a Verizon tech support phone queue. I’ve now waited through 4 different queues and spent 20 minutes convincing the first level tech that the reverse DNS PTR record I need in their DNS servers has nothing to do with DHCP. I’ve been on hold for [...]

Posted 30 April 2010 † Philip § Rant ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged:

xend fails silently

I’ve been giving myself a crash course in Xen recently. I’ve played with Xen in the past but it’s always annoyed me that the kernel for dom0 was super old (2.6.18). Debian has always been good with their support and the 2.6.26 kernel that ships with Lenny has worked well. Now that Xen 4.0 is [...]

Posted 29 April 2010 † Philip § Computer ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: , ,

Raleigh Record: Mission Accomplished

It’s done. Putting the bike back together was super easy. Part of what made it so easy was that I put the components (breaks, derailers etc) back together as I cleaned them up. The brakes were already done so I just had to bolt them back on, the bottom bracket was a bit more difficult [...]

Posted 09 April 2010 † Philip § Hobby ‡ Comments (3) ° Tagged: ,

Running OP for the First Time

OP is a little wonky to run the first time. Not because it doesn’t work but because it doesn’t appear to. Sounds strange right? Well the first time I fired it up (by running the run-op2 script in the root of the source tree) it loaded up the web page of one of the students [...]

Posted 01 April 2010 † Philip § Computer ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,