- Loss of a Student-Accessable network
First they came for the Gamers,
and I didn’t speak up,
because I wasn’t a Gamer.
Then they came for the Laptops,
and I didn’t speak up,
because I hadn’t a Laptop.
Then they came for the Programmers,
and I didn’t speak up,
because I was a Networker.
Then they came for me,
and by that time there was no [...]
I’m back in the wired. Len, the original installer, came out today. He concluded that:
The lightning arrest wasn’t grounded correctly, and neither was the cold water pipe. Very doubtful.
The transceiver wasn’t aimed quite correctly. Very doubtful.
The transceiver was too low, and should be raised another foot. Improved significantly, still tons of errors.
The trees were in [...]
XplorNet wireless highspeed internet service is anything but. It certainly is fast, but it’s not internet. It’s more like an packet blackhole, a nice place to loose data.
The service is rock solid stable at night, but fails intermittently throughout the day. I have not determined whether this is due to changes in EMF radiation over [...]
Stats
Cpu:
Intel PII 233Mhz
Ram:
224 MiB
Root Disc:
3.1 GiB
Kernel:
2.6.10
Audio:
SBLive
Nic:
Realtek 8139
Video:
ATI 3DRage ProATI Mach64
I started installing Gentoo on Hikari this week past. Progress was slow at first, butting heads against failed memory, a broken cdrom drive, and a flaky motherboard. After a round of hardware upgrades she’s cooking along smoothly. She’s booting under her own power with a tweeked [...]
Weird-ass networking problem of the day. Myself and _Quinn have been requesting the same pages on multiple machines on each end, in multiple browsers, and I have come up with the following busted scenario.
Some of http headers, max transfer unit, cookies, html formatting on this page, combined with the chunk of network cloud we’re going [...]
Secunia, has issued a security advisory on the IDN spoofing issue, based on the homograph attacks identified by Eric Johanson.
Users of Browsers that implement International Domain Names (IDN) support are affected. Secunia has constructed a test to check if your browser is affected. This would include all Gecko-based browsers that support IDN. InternetExplorer, which has [...]
Google Maps kicks an amazingly large quantity of MapQuest ass. Part of me doesn’t like the overuse of javascript, but at least Google works to ensure it’s error-free, and functional in various browsers. I’ve always liked Google’s use of in-band signaling for all their query options in the search boxes. It seems they are the [...]
I’ve noticed oodles of single-pixel-off render bugs in IE over time, especially now with XHTML/CSS. In particular, I not that IE seems to have troubles with the whitespace present when multiple list items are on multiple lines: Moving them all one after another in a long, long line seems to alliviate things.
The moral of the [...]
tds.net provides DSL service in (among other places) the Middleton WI area.
When connecting with PPPoE, one may get any number of different IP addresses. The problem stems from the fact that TDS has aquired several companies along the way, and their IP blocks. Yet, they have busted reverse DNS for those IP blocks. A connection [...]
I’ve been seeing crashes in Firefox 1.0 over the last week. I’ve narrowed the cause to Gmail. After doing some research I stumbled across some lesser-known Firefox builds, which seem to be part of the Firefox Plans.
BurningEdge maintains nightly build changelogs for Firefox releases .