Spent a lot of it in traffic. Didn’t get to go out to a client’s site – a single client’s site, among seven in this area that need visiting – until 1500 or so. I got stuck in plenty of traffic, yes indeed.
I killed a Cisco Aironet 340 LMC PCMCIA 802.11b adapter (phew) today.
Hint: I think trying to use the (apparently undocumented)
airoflash utility from the airo-linux
project is a bad idea. I don’t blame them,
really. What the hell was I doing trying to flash my card with an
undocumented program, anyway? Now I think I just get the triple amber
LED blink. According to Cisco’s site that means something like “bad
firmware checksum.” It tells me to re-flash the firmware. Problem: I
can get neither Linux nor Windows 2000 to recognize the card, so I
can’t flash it. (Linux wants a device name, which never gets assigned
since the driver (presumably) can’t communicate with the card
properly. Windows has a similar problem: the Cisco utilities won’t load
because Windows never really thinks there is a network card in the
system.) I was going to call TAC, but I have fears of my bullshitting
ability. I don’t think I will be able to say to them, “yeah, I was
flashing it using approved methods, of course *wink, wink*”
without sounding like a total liar. “So, what exactly did you click
in the Windows application?” “Uh, well, I, uh, clicked, um… I
don’t… remember?” “*click*” So I ordered a LMC 350 from
techonweb.com who were highly rated at
Reseller Ratings and Price Grabber. Oh, they also had a good price on
the card; within $15 of the lowest on a $100-ish card. Then, of
course, I blew $35 on overnight shipping. I’m so impatient when it
comes to gadgets. Oh well, it’ll come out of my record budget.
I made seared Tuna steak covered in mustard, some fried brown rice (I forgot fucking Soy sauce!), and my own concoction of Broccoli in wine with some spices thrown on. I now have a mid-grade headache, and immediately after eating I thought I was going to puke briefly. That’s not so abnormal, but it was stronger than with other meals, so it stood out to me. This stuff makes me sick. I don’t know if it’s the spiciness, the oil, the mustard, or what. Maybe it’s all the salt I put on the food. I’ll down some Mylanta before bed and hope for the best.
Oh, I almost forgot! We have CABLE! Yes! We have Road Runner and 500 channels of shit again. Joy! No more dial-up. My co-worker’s power just got turned on today too, which is good. I wonder if Duke Power met their goal of having 90% of power in CLT on by today (well, yesterday; Wednesday) at midnight?
I set up my slight voodoo Bind configuration tonight and Bind 9.2.1
ate it. I can’t test yet since I have no machines configured on the
internal IP block that the internal view’s match-client statement
looks for. I was going to switch a system over tonight… but I
stopped, since I thought I had determined that I would need to switch
all systems at once (or within a block of time that customers will not
be likely to access our resources). I thought this because I thought
the name servers would only be available on one IP or the other.
However, I’ve now remembered that Linux can have *gasp* more than one
IP per interface. So I’ll have to configure my name servers up like
that tomorrow and try switching a machine, then. It should be fun.
I think I forgot something in the above paragraph, but I’m too tired so I’m just going to be off to bed now.