Archive for January, 2003
Connectivity Update
Posted: January 28th, 2003 by Frank
Well last Friday, a mere two weeks, I mailed the signed contract back to Global Crossing. The price is of course confidential. And now, I get to wait a week while they “get the contract into the system”, and another week while they write the install order, and then roughly four weeks while they install
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Tip of the Day
Posted: January 20th, 2003 by Frank
Make sure you hook up the little wire from the CDROM drive to the sound card. Windows CD players seem to run the bits down the backplane, but Gnome-CD at least seems to just start the disc playing and expect the sound card to catch it. I don’t have the wire installed, and can’t find it, so it’s headphones for me.
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Living in the Third World
Posted: January 20th, 2003 by Frank
The demise of our ISP has been a rude awakening. It’s not the travails of getting us back online, (For the detailed saga see Notes of a Backcountry Sysadmin), but rather the experience of living with a shared dialup.We (all four of us) have had an always-on connection ever since we moved into the office
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Not a Good Day
Posted: January 18th, 2003 by Frank
At 1530 yesterday Lightship cut us off. By the time the tech at tech support figured out what had happened. (Like, he has no record of the circuit number or the IPs assigned to us), it’s 1630. On a Friday. Then I get passed to somebody named ‘Rob’. We go through my talking to both
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Expensive Toy
Posted: January 16th, 2003 by Frank
Got a budgetary quote today from Global Crossing. A worst case number for a 512k connection. (Which Monadnock Broadband didn’t offer.) Did a parity check with MB and got the explanation: MB didin’t offer them because GC didn’t want to deal with anyone whose bill was less than $750/month, and a T1 was $754/month. So
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How About a Tin Can on a String
Posted: January 15th, 2003 by Frank
Our ISP filed bankruptcy on Sunday, so I’ve been trying to line up new connectivity. For the last 3.5 years we’ve had a 384k frame relay link. I used to joke that we matched Dilbert’s mom, who had a “384k Frame Relay drop to the Linux box in the sewing room”. The bill has been
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Well, It’s Up
Posted: January 13th, 2003 by Frank
OK, I’ve got Moveable Type installed on the new server, in its default configuration. It’s definitely good stuff. Follow the directions (which all make sense) and it works. You do have to set up a database and a user on MySQL first. This too is not hard, but you do have to buy a book
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