Author Archives: ward
checking dns glue records
This is mostly a reminder to myself. Here’s a way to check a domain’s DNS glue records. For example, for google: dig +trace +nosearch +all +norecurse google.com
Jaunty’s stabilizing
A quick update on some of the bugs reported in my previous post bugs, bugs, bugs: upgrading to jaunty jackalope. The two most serious problems were atrocious Intel video performance, and ongoing sound issues. Thankfully, the Intel issues have been … Continue reading
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Tagged intel, intelvideo, jauntyjackalope, karmickoala, ubuntu
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counting known_hosts
All right folks, time to fess up. What’s your count? $ wc ~/.ssh/known_hosts -l 1470 Obviously there are some old machines in there – this file goes back at least five years. There are some duplicates as well as there … Continue reading
bugs, bugs, bugs: upgrading to jaunty jackalope
I upgraded my laptop to Jaunty Jackalope. Here’s the list of issues (and solutions) I’ve run into: 1. Tor is not packaged anymore, apparently there is no Ubuntu maintainer. Upstream provides Ubuntu packages, but they have no jaunty package yet. … Continue reading
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Drupal: disable caching for an entire module
I have a legacy php application that had to be integrated into a Drupal site, so I wrapped it in a simple drupal module. The code needs to run for anonymous users. The wrapping worked fine, but the Drupal cache … Continue reading
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Asterisk vs. Telemarketer: 1 – 0
We’ve been getting telephone spam from Affiliated Mortgage Protection Affiliated Mortgage Protection 292 Terminal Ave W, Clark, NJ- 7066. (732)-499-0700 We answered five of their calls the past three weeks, and each time asked them to stop calling. Apparently, they … Continue reading
virgin america rocks
Flying from Boston to San Francisco right now on Virgin America. The plane is new, the entertainment system runs GNU/Linux, you can order food and drink (soft drinks free, the rest is sadly overpriced) right from the touch screen in … Continue reading
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recycling a ton of old computing gear
We recycled at work this week – literally over a metric ton (estimated) of old servers. This is what about two thirds of that amount looked liked: Apologies for the low quality picture – I only had a crappy cell … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Hardware, Sysadmin
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howto: replace a PLCC chip with a socket “ghetto style”
I used Peter Stuge’s “ghetto” method to replace a PLCC bios chip with a socket on an asus m2a-2vm board. This board has excellent coreboot support. The method basically consists of cutting off the legs of the PLCC chip as … Continue reading
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and so…
the great patent war begins. This is the big one.
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