Linux udev is great but if you forget about it, it’s a pain. When you replace a motherboard/network card in a machine, you just expect the primary network device to be eth0 again, but with udev it’s not going to do it.

Ubuntu uses a file at this location to store the udev rules for network cards:

example of what’s in there:

Remove all the rules in the file, reboot and it should sort you out… there’s more complex ways of dealing with it, but I like hitting things with hammers. 🙂

Unfortunately for us, our wireshark appliance is so inundated with traffic it can’t capture all the packets, but we’ve got enough here to brute force the password pretty quickly…

When you get one of the following errors on boot for a DC series computer (including DC7800, DC7900, DC8100, DC8200

• 2231-ME error during MEBx execution
• 2232-AMT error during MEBx execution
• 2233-HECI error during MEBx execution

Their suggested fix is the following:

That seemed a bit stupid, replace the motherboard? Surely there’s another way. Rebooting it doesn’t normally fix much, but there’s a few things I read that seem to fix it.

My PRIMARY method for adding a vehicle to my “to buy” list is based on whether I can sit upright with good posture and still see out of the windscreen. I don’t care if I have to slide the seat all the way back and down, if I can sit upright and see, it’s on my list. If the only vehicle I could buy on the market cost $50k and was bright pink - I’d have a good look around the second hand market, then buy that pink money pit.

I knew I had to chronicle my week of Cisco somehow, and this is probably the best way to do it 🙂

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

So, someone posted about their ADSL speed on Facebook, then asked me about how they can make things better. Meanwhile I got in a bit of an argument with a guy who runs one of those back yard computer shops because he said wireless would make a ~5mbit ADSL connection slower, and copied and pasted generic garbage from Bigpond’s help pages to back his point up. Ugh.

I’m running through our deployment of Riverbed Cascade at the moment and was checking traffic to an external host, noticed that it had gotten a hit from researchscan010.eecs.umich.edu on port 80. I figured it couldn’t hurt to see if it was responding (having research in the name) and it did!

Cute 🙂

I got authorized on the weekend, having some test bouts against Niall and Liadan, the crown prince and princess (and my good friends). It was an honour to fight them, and get clubbed like a baby harp seal. 🙂

Now I just have to learn to let the armour take the hit instead of my flesh 🙂

Driving to work this morning I tried to set my phone to make noise, since it’s on silent when I sleep. I unlocked it, pressed the volume up button, and it stayed stuck on silent. I could drag the volume slider up, but it’d instantly flip back to silent again.

Tapping the little speaker icon to set it to vibrate worked, which was odd. I thought the button was broken/stuck on, but it wasn’t showing the volume setting all the time, so.. meh?

“Of course I won’t laugh ,” said the Nurse to the patient , “I’m a professional. In over twenty years I’ve never laughed at a patient.”

“Okay then,” said Bob, and he proceeded to drop his trousers, revealing the smallest adult male organ the Nurse had ever seen in her life.

In length and width it was almost identical to a AAA battery.

Unable to control herself, the Nurse tried to stop a giggle, but it just came out.