Ran into this (apparently) common issue building a new Windows XP Guest – it claims there is no hard disk available. The XP install ISO’s don’t have either LSI Logic or Buslogic SCSI drivers, so you need to use a floppy image. Get http://download3.vmware.com/software/vmscsi-1.2.0.4.flp Upload it to the Datastore Add it to your Guest, and [...]
From your 47 subscriptions, over the last 30 days you read 4,383 items, starred 36 items, shared 0 items, and emailed 6 items. While Google Reader has been a part of my daily routine forever, and I can’t imagine life without it, it still has some fundamental problems. I went through my feeds today, and [...]
Ran into this today – Debian (and probably some other distros) using udev will store the MAC address into /etc/udev/rules.d/z25_persistent-net.rules, and auto increment the eth# as needed. So if you have a machine using eth0, the clone will end up using eth1. If you clone the clone… it’ll be eth2, and so on. If you’ve [...]
OpenWRT has long had some patches against pppd 2.4.4 for what’s called ‘Precompiled Active Filter’. Â This is a file, which contains the libpcap compiled filter on what should be considered ‘active’ or ‘interesting’ traffic. Â In the Cisco world, it’s the access-list you reference with dialer-list and dialer-group commands. The default file that’s shipped tends to [...]
Merlin Mann’s posted a special version of one of his famous slideshows, which includes his slide comments below. Go read Who Moved My Brain? now.
After using Google Reader for just over a year, I’ve got a few features I’d like to see added/changed. Some are simple, and some are not so simple. Deduping/Dupe Filtering. Many of the feeds I read report on the same news, with the same link(s) in the articles. I don’t need to see something 2,3,4,5 [...]
It’s actually been a few weeks longer than a year, but close enough. First, the current stats: Compared with a year ago, I’m reading more than double the number of feeds, but slightly less articles. Most of this has to do with dropping a few feeds that were 90% duplicates (unfortunately this means I do [...]
As the topic says, I’m back. My employment with MDS is over, so I feel more comfortable writing about what I’m up to and posting small hacks as I run across them. The focus of the blog will shift as I’m now contracting/consulting full time again (and much happier about it). It also means I’ll [...]
Twas a sad day today, as I bid farewell to the Mini. With the baby on the way, we needed something big enough to fit Van and I, baby, *and* a stroller, and that’s a tight fit in a Mini.
MCR posted me this section of an IBM HMC (Hardware Maintainance Console) bootlog: keyboard: Timeout – AT keyboard not present?(f4) keyboard: Timeout – AT keyboard not present?(f4) CSLIP: code copyright 1989 Regents of the University of California SLIP: version 0.8.4-NET3.019-NEWTTY-MODULAR (dynamic channels, max=256) (6 bit encapsulation enabled). SLIP linefill/keepalive option. klips_info:ipsec_init: KLIPS startup, FreeS/WAN IPSec [...]
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