Ramblings
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New rig.
The new beast of a workstation arrived (in parts) at 7:45 this morning. I’m now typing up this posting using the new beast, and watching Windows Update install 77 updates. Amazingly, there were no more updates after a reboot. Regarding the assembly of the beast, I’m very impressed with the level of documentation that came…
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Revamping the house – part 2
So I’ve got the steamer again, and my muscles are muttering about a pre-emptive strike to stop me from using it. I pity the fools (and I’ll pity myself by tomorrow evening!). Amusingly enough, the steamer is made by the same company that makes the household steamer that my mother has. Small world. I’ve managed…
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Vanishing Skips
So, Tuesday I call the company I ordered a skip through, and asked for it to be picked up on Friday morning. This would let me park the car in the driving bay, and back the van up to just outside my house. Imagine my surprise when I got home yesterday and found that my…
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Revamping the house – part 1
Dad dropped by yesterday to give me a hand with de-wallpapering the front bedroom. The first steamer was a bust, it appeared to have thermostat problems. Quick trip back to HSS, and I had a working steamer (2.7 kW heater + tank of water). In about 6 hours, with a pause to take the radiator…
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Onwards and southwards – ta-ra ta-ra!
Well, the ball is rolling for me to move south by about 60 miles as the crow flies. I’ve accepted a job at a utilities company as a system administrator, and if things go as planned, I should be starting there at the beginning of July. Cue frenzied packing, cleaning and decorating of the current…
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Dhclient3 and MS DHCP classless static routes
$dayjob uses a Microsoft server for DHCP. Not really a problem, except out of the box, the (K)Ubuntu dhcp client (dhclient3) doesn’t actually support option 249 – classless-static-routes (or ms-classless-static-routes as some sites on the net refer to it). The format that the MS DCHP server spits out is the mask, followed by the subnet,…