In which there’s a recipe. I’ve been eating these all week. They’re really just bean tostadas, but you should make some anyway because they’re fantastic. This is a strange but delicious guacamole. Make some. (Click on the pic for the recipe.) Now put it in the fridge to chill. Put some grated cheese — I […]
In which this is very interesting. I’ve tried the patch and the gum. They suck. My own anecdotal experience tells me that it’s not nicotine I’ve been addicted to.
In which I’m kind of a dick about people trying to wean themselves off of their identification with their belongings (which is a very important stage of development, of course, but seriously, this has to be the hundredth blog post I’ve read about how deeply attached bitches are to their Harry Potter books, and I’m […]
How to kill and restart HTTP service on a Cobalt RAQ web server. Ya need to be logged in as root. At the command prompt, type: tail /var/run/httpd.pid It’ll return the process ID, eg. 2739. Then type: kill -HUP 2739 HTTP should come right back up.
A handy tool for figuring out what clients have on their connections (after looking up the MAC address in the router): Vendor/Ethernet MAC Address Lookup and Search
DNS Stuff: DNS tools, WHOIS, tracert, ping, and other network tools is a lovely, lovely tool when you’re trying to troubleshoot routing issues! I love it!
Interpreting Traceroute Results is a good primer if you think you understand what tracert’s really doing but don’t: “When using ping or traceroute as troubleshooting tools, consider ping a good way to determine connectivity, traceroute a good way to determine path and connectivity but neither should be used as the final say in determining the […]
These are notes for an Intranet HTML-based manual I was writing for 1st level tech support, back when domain name email support was added to their duties.
These are my training notes from when I transferred into Engineering in 2002 or so. I keep them on the web because I still refer to these now and again… generally for Unix commands I’ve spaced. Heh! DNS FOR NEW WEB SITES – NEW WAY cd /usr/local/bin ./add_domain domain.com ipaddress ./add_domain domain.com IP.IP.IP.IP cd /etc/namedb […]
