One step closer to faster DSL
My DSL upgrade saga took another step towards completion today, when Verizon installed a new phone line at home. Amazingly enough, it’s already in their DSL database, and Verizon’s DSL sales website...
View ArticleDSL: 6 days and counting
I have a date now for my new DSL line: February 11th. My new DSL PCI card is in UPS’s hands, too. I’m starting to believe that my months-long DSL upgrade quest is nearly complete.
View ArticleSuccess: My new DSL line is up and running
I can’t believe it. After months and months of trying to upgrade my DSL, everything is finally up and running on my new DSL line. The line wasn’t supposed to go live until Friday evening, but Verizon...
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It’s sort of an axiom of programming that features that aren’t continually used or tested won’t actually work. A similar rule holds for system administration–any feature that hasn’t been tested since...
View ArticleTree Removal for Fun and Profit
I’m still recovering from this last weekend–we ripped a 60 foot maple tree out of our back yard. One of the tree’s three main trunks was rotting, and it’d been dropping branches onto our yard and fence...
View ArticleThe sysadmin's home office
It’s been an interesting experience setting up my home office over the past few days. I remember my parents going through a similar experience when I was in high school–they bought a copier, a fax...
View ArticleA whole new office
When my wife and I moved into our house almost 7 years ago, I claimed one of the bedrooms as a home office. I crammed a desk, an 8’ folding table, and 2 big bookshelves into the room, filling it up...
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Backyard Flowers
I spent most of today trying to catch up on the three weeks’ worth of yardwork that I’d missed while I was in California. I didn’t make all that much progress, but along the way I spotted a few...
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Lightweight Home Security with Indigo and Asterisk
I mentioned last week that I’ve been working on building sort of a lightweight home security system for my house so my 4-year-old daughter won’t be able to sneak out of the house again.I spent about a...
View ArticleA new server (part 1)
A few days ago, I mentioned that my home NAS box had failed, and that I was considering replacing it with a PC server running OpenSolaris and ZFS. I’ve read a pile of ZFS docs, and it looks like the...
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