While at the office today, we discovered a new syndrome.. one of my coworkers spontaneously turned around and said “the firewall!”, and then nothing else. The rest of us, of course, assumed there was a problem with one of our many firewalls. Alas, that was not the case - we still have no idea why […]
My wife decided to surprise me, and picked up tickets for the Stomp show at the Ordway tonight. I’d never seen the show before; it was a blast! If you’re in the Minneapolis area, and haven’t seen it, I’d highly recommended stopping in. Not the best show for young kids or anyone else sensitive to […]
I was trying to set up BackupPC to back up a couple Windows XP Professional boxes this afternoon, and ran into some problems. I couldn’t access the ‘C$’ share on the system from the BackupPC server, even when logging into the Windows box as an administrator. So, I tried creating a share for all of […]
One of my jobs at work is to help maintain our monitoring infrastructure. When I started, it was based purely on OpenNMS; we’ve found that it did not support what we needed for problem acknowledgement, outage scheduling, and various other routine tasks. I’ve supplemented Nagios, which I used extensively at a previous employer, and it’s […]
I’ve done what I suppose you could call a “redesign” to the site; it still looks about the same (except for the border around the pages), but it’s now entirely based on CSS, instead of using a kludge of CSS and tables. This should help those people who have had problems getting my pages to […]
Switchfoot’s new album shipped with (weak) DRM on the album media - it’s that Sony “DRM” that installs a TSR under Windows that prevents you from ripping the album. Apparently, though, the band was very upset with the fact that DRM was included, and has posted a guide on how to get around the DRM. […]
I’ve got the new backplane installed in the PowerVault 660F array. It sure was interesting to install - have to pull the entire array apart to get at it. I did find out that almost all of the weight is in the components - the actual casing for the array is light as a feather. […]
I took a quick look at my stats today, and was shocked to find that Firefox had finally passed IE for the most-used browser. That rocks! It probably has a lot to do with the fact that most of the stuff on this site is for geeks, but still, it’s cool. Current top browsers are […]
Openswan 2.4.0 has been released. Three biggest fixes:
NAT-T support for KLIPS on 2.6 (Sponsored by Astaro)
Additional Cipher support with KLIPS on 2.6 (Sponsored by Astaro)
Fix for NAT-T/PSK rekey (Ulrich @ Astaro)
KLIPS on 2.6 should be big.. once they get it fully working on 2.6.13, I’ll have to give it a shot.
I installed WordPress last night, and added a link for the blog to my main page about an hour ago. Already I’m seeing requests from blog syndication services - wow! Various user agents that I’ve spotted: Blogslive, topicblogs, BlogSearch, Technoratibot, and Feedster Crawler. I have no idea how they found it so quick!
Update: I figured […]
I’ve got some pictures up of my colo space at ipHouse. See http://pictures.natecarlson.com/iphouse/. Eventually I’ll get a page up describing what I’ve done, but the basic gear (some of which is not in this pictures, as it has been installed after the fact) is a Dell PowerVault 660F (Fibre Storage), a Dell PowerVault 51F (8-port […]
If anyone out there is looking for inexpensive colocation space in Minneapolis, I’ve got a half-rack at ipHouse which I’m using to host my gear, and am looking for other people who want 1U of space for $50/mo, including bandwidth (assuming fairly low usage). If you’re interested, give me a shout at colo at […]
Well, what can I say, my new co-workers are finally kind-a-sorta rubbing off on my.. I’ve started one of these silly blog things. It’ll be interesting to see how interested I stay in this - care to place any bets? In any case, this is going to get “the green light” on my main page […]
