Category Archives: Administrative

Administrative, Space

Travel Emergency

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I’m flying into El Paso tomorrow afternoon for the ISPCS in Las Cruces, and I apparently didn’t reserve a car in time, because there are now none available. This is complicated by the fact that I’m not staying at the conference hotel, so I would also need a ride from where I’m staying to and from the Ranch Museum. Is anyone else getting in about that time (late afternoon) with a car who could at least get me to the Encanto?

[Update a few minutes later]

Well, there’s a shuttle for forty-five bucks (fifty if I don’t reserve today). So I guess that’s my fall-back.

Administrative, Technology and Society

Linux Bleg

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Nautilus seems to be broken in my installation of Fedora 14. I try to launch it, and it appears in the task bar momentarily and then disappears. Anyone have any suggestions?

[Update a couple minutes later]

I’ve already uninstalled/reinstalled, in case anyone was going to suggest that.

[Update a while later]

Don’t know why, but now it’s working. Go figure.

Administrative

New Theme

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I may use this as the basis for a new blog theme. It obviously needs a lot of tweaking in the style sheets.

[Evening update]

Folks, if you want to complain about the new theme, do it here, not at the previous post. I don’t want to have to carry on two discussions.

And as I’ve said repeatedly, I’m just trying to move it from circa 2005 to modern times, in terms of functionality. I’ll worry about aesthetics later. Not that I don’t want suggestions on the latter, but don’t expect a response to them immediately.

For instance, I now have “Like” buttons, and “Reply” to comments. I don’t want to go back.

Also, if someone with graphic talent wants to come up with a new header graphic similar to the old one, I’d appropriate it gratefully. It doesn’t have to be the same, and I’m open to upgrades, but I’d like it to have some heritage. 980×100, please…

[Update early evening, before settling in to watch Verlander and the Tigers against the Yankees]

Yes, I do hate the blockquote style — why do you ask? It will be the second thing I tackle in the style sheets after colors.

Administrative, Technology and Society

SSH Problems

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OK, so I’ve upgraded my laptop to Fedora 15, and want to restore the backup, but I can’t ssh into it. Here’s what happens:

[simberg@linux-host ~]$ ping 192.168.0.105
PING 192.168.0.105 (192.168.0.105) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 192.168.0.105: icmp_req=1 ttl=64 time=0.250 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.105: icmp_req=2 ttl=64 time=0.243 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.105: icmp_req=3 ttl=64 time=0.225 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.105: icmp_req=4 ttl=64 time=0.261 ms
^C
— 192.168.0.105 ping statistics —
4 packets transmitted, 4 received, 0% packet loss, time 3001ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.225/0.244/0.261/0.023 ms
[simberg@linux-host ~]$ ssh 192.168.0.105
ssh: connect to host 192.168.0.105 port 22: No route to host
[simberg@linux-host ~]$

So I can ping it, but it won’t connect. I’ve installed opensshd on the laptop, I’ve enabled it, and the firewall has port 22 open. I can also ssh into it from a terminal on the machine (e.g., ssh localhost or ssh 192.168.0.105), but not from another computer on the network. Any ideas?

Administrative, Technology and Society

Ethernet Bleg

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So I’m backing up my laptop in preparation for an upgrade from Fedora 13 to 15, and I notice that the data transfer speed is only about half a meg per second. Here is the output of ‘ethtool eth0’:

Settings for eth0:
Supported ports: [ TP MII ]
Supported link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
1000baseT/Half 1000baseT/Full
Supports auto-negotiation: Yes
Advertised link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
1000baseT/Half 1000baseT/Full
Advertised pause frame use: No
Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes
Link partner advertised link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
Link partner advertised pause frame use: No
Link partner advertised auto-negotiation: Yes
Speed: 100Mb/s
Duplex: Full
Port: MII
PHYAD: 0
Transceiver: internal
Auto-negotiation: on
Supports Wake-on: pumbg
Wake-on: g
Current message level: 0x00000033 (51)
drv probe ifdown ifup
Link detected: yes

Any ideas what the problem is?