W4JDH

Home Network Rearranging

by W4JDH
With the last of /home dealt with, I will be powering tsuki down tonight to prep for a rebuild. In my locating its drives the other day, I noticed that I have a spare 160GB IDE drive. That will make a perfect start for it. Additionally, the 250W power supply that’s in the 2U case ... Read More

Old Server Online Temporarily

by W4JDH
So I fired tsuki up tonight! The 200GB drive I had for my home directory is toast, but the 60GB that was the primary drive still yet lives, and its MySQL database with it! There’s a fairly large amount of data on it that belongs to people, so if you had an account there, let ... Read More

The Convention Conundrum

by W4JDH
Here’s a scenario: you’ve found a {convention|hamfest|trade show|conference} you want to attend, have a hotel picked out, and have your method of transportation picked out. What you don’t know, though, is if you want to leave out Sunday evening or Monday morning. This was the scenario I ended up with in 2005 when it was ... Read More

Project Update

by W4JDH
Sometimes I dislike slow days at work as I start reading and reading and reading. I reread the EVDO Stompbox Project and something clicked with me: I remembered the mini-PCI slot in my net4501. While I’ve only used mini-PCI cards in notebook computers over the years, I never had a need to use it in ... Read More

Importing Fun!

by W4JDH
I imported the pre-FFXI blog posts from my other WordPress blog, so this goes back to 2006 now. Now to figure out how to pull the ones off the big server. I probably will boot with the original drives in first so I can grab those off it before I go nuts with the full ... Read More

Musings on Networks

by W4JDH
A long time ago in a college campus not far from here, I sat and built out a notebook computer that I wanted on Dell’s website. As I went down the list of options, I picked most of the standard options until I got to one that stumped me, the network card. I had a ... Read More

Mobile Connectivity +α

by W4JDH
Earlier this week, I read on TmoNews.com that T-Mobile was making another promo on their webConnect (aircard) service. I had cashed in on a promo plan towards the end of last year for $50/mo instead of $60/mo, but this one is even more awesome: “Overage Free” rate plan for $40/mo. What this means is that ... Read More

Network Naming Conventions and Rebuilding Old Machines

by W4JDH
A few years back during one of my silly phases, I translated all the computers in my house’s names into Japanese, using either the actual word or something similar. I had named my desktop ‘lunar’, so that became ‘tsuki’ (moon), the gateway machine was named ‘kadoguchi’ (gateway), and I had named my parents’ machine ‘iris’ ... Read More

Phase One Complete

by W4JDH
I decided to dig out the big plug strip and hook all the materials up to see if they worked together before I begin the pure DC phase of the experiment. After massaging pf a little bit to make the bridge work, I managed to get an IP wirelessly with the WAP plugged into the ... Read More