http://blog.11h.net The blog of 11h Wed, 19 Nov 2008 09:19:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I am currently preparing for a data migration from my current laptop to either the same laptop with a re-freshed Windows XP install or a new laptop with a fresh Windows XP install.  The IT guy helping me with a failed forced update patch had the same reaction to my ... http://blog.11h.net/erich/80 While trying to create a graph with trendline to predict what a thermistor reading for a Prius's radiator/engine temperature would be at certain temperatures I started battling MSFT's Excel. I created a chart with the known data collected about the voltage at the thermistor for  a list of temperatures.  I wanted ... http://blog.11h.net/erich/79 Last week I was disparately looking for something good to listen to on the radio while I was driving around Atlanta, GA.  The radio stations in Atlanta seemed to have taken a horrible step in the wrong direction in the last 10 years... But I digress. While pressing the radio's seek ... http://blog.11h.net/erich/78 I'm working on a project where I need my DHCP server to send an IP address from a specific DHCP range if the hostname is a certain value otherwise it needs to send a normal IP address range. I'm using Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Server V3.0.3 (ISC-DHCP). To give a specific address ... http://blog.11h.net/erich/76 I received the following error today when trying to open a samba share on a FreeBSD system from a clean Windows Server 2003 install: "no network provider accepted the given path." "PC LOAD LETTER, what the fsck does that mean?!" I thought to myself. After some digging, I found that the ... http://blog.11h.net/erich/75 I recently created a solar water heater for a pool in France. Since I had a limited set of tools and could not make anything permanent I had to use materials that were cheap and reusable or recyclable. What I ended up with was a 50 meter long ... http://blog.11h.net/erich/74 I've been traveling recently and on my travels I have searched for pinball machines, however none have been found. Until now! I was in France last November and during that time I never saw a pinball machine. Of course I didn't travel too far out of the Gard département. Three ... http://blog.11h.net/erich/73 A while ago, I picked up a several 17" LCD monitors for pocket change. They were old monitors from a school district in the Seattle area that had upgraded their computers. The only problem with the screens was that they didn't have any stands. I've had the screens ... http://blog.11h.net/erich/72 Sometimes I wish that I could kick my own ass. A long time ago, in a far away galaxy, I installed slackware on a hard drive. The thought was that I could use this drive as an emergency drive to power-on and back-up dying systems or resurect dead ones. ... http://blog.11h.net/erich/71 Offline. what?! My server, offline?! "No way" I said to my self while traveling in France when trying to log into my server. There's no way a fully redundant server has failed. UPS, dual CPU, hardware RAID5 with hot-spare. Down. Out. Not responding. Thanks to Brian, ... http://blog.11h.net/erich/70