Archive for the ‘Geek’ Category
Wednesday, February 4th, 2009
I'm happy to report that my Dish Network service is functioning again! A few days after my prior post, one of the guys from the prior repair team came out. He pulled my ViP 622 receiver and replaced it with a ViP 722 (free upgrade). He also replaced the diplexers ...
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Sunday, January 11th, 2009
I have another Dish Network appointment scheduled. This is the 3rd in the last month (or two) or so.
In late November, I inexplicably lost all signal. I had a guy come out and replace the LNB on my Dish and all was well again.
In mid-December, I again lost ...
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Thursday, October 30th, 2008
I've started to play around again with IPv6; this time with tunnels from Hurricane Electric!
My setup includes 2 tunnels: one tunnel from the LAX tunnel server with a /48 to my home networks. The other tunnel terminates in Chicago and is for my colocated server down in Morrison. I'm looking ...
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Saturday, October 25th, 2008
(warning, below contains palpable geekery and some thinking aloud. proceed with caution)
As I become more network aware (filling in the blanks with my Cisco course), I'm starting to rethink how my network at home is structured. Specifically, these things concern me:
Uncontrolled devices. These are devices that need internet access but ...
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Thursday, May 29th, 2008
So a large part of my day job consists of hacking on a small PHP application intended to run on an ARM device. We chose PHP for a number of reasons, not the least of which is the "ease" of development (PHP is not one of my favorite languages) and ...
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Friday, April 25th, 2008
Welcome to episkey!
I've started to transition my primary services (starting with the web stuff) from my home network to my new server installed at Red Rocks Data Center in Morrison.
I will be moving more stuff over the weekend.
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Saturday, April 19th, 2008
While I might not be such a do-it-yourselfer around the house, I certainly am when it comes to the Internet.
Case in point: my email, web, and IRC infrastructure.
When I moved to Fort Collins, one of the first things I did was obtain a Comcast Business Class cable connection for my ...
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Sunday, April 13th, 2008
Over the last few weeks, I've been doing some shuffling of my computer equipment. It's been an interesting process to optimize everything.
Recently, I setup a 500GB mirrored array in valiant (an IBM PC Server 325 ; P2 300/192M). I found that in this configuration, I maximized at 10MBps writes ...
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Tuesday, March 4th, 2008
Cheers to Microsoft for IE 8!
An unusual thing for me to say, to be sure. Those of you who know me best have likely been the victim of my railing against Internet Explorer, Microsoft, and all things silly between the two in my profanity-laced description of how web design actually ...
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Monday, January 28th, 2008
No sooner do I mention the possibility of my connection flapping, that it actually happens.
Turns out that about 1130 MST today, the Comcast/Level3 interconnect in Denver started seeing errors. It took Comcast about an hour to publish an outage notification (as the business services tech received it as we were ...
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