Archives for October 2007
black and reds
29 October 2007 | life, shoes | No Responses
I finally received my new vans…right in time for Halloween:
All custom-ed out I am really digging them. My only complaint is that I wish that I got to have my name on them just like AXL did in the early nighties with his high tops. Apparently vans doesn’t do that unless you are really important (and probably shell out the extra cash for it). Also, the right one seems bigger than the left but I just think this is a foot issue. Maybe they are shrinking. It appears I am not the only one with this confusion.
In other news,,,,this music thing is getting under way. I dont quite know where it is going, but its going somewhere. I have also been hitting the weights. I am beefing up that winter weight. watch out arnold.
joe
re-serve it up – final install
25 October 2007 | dell server, lab | No Responses
More woos, less, woos, but I am making progress. I finally decided to ditch gentoo for real this time. I re-installed it with an updated kernel and I just could not get rid of the following message:
!!! Block 303 is not a valid root device
I didn’t feel like dealing with the troubleshooting that one. So, after the release of the latest Ubuntu version, I decided to roll with that. After a quick look at how to forge – the perfect Ubuntu server, I was up and running in no time. LAMP, ssh, and ftp are all following suit as initially proposed. My goal no is to get get remote access with all three servers with some help from a free no-ip.com account. This dynamic dns stuff is pretty neat. Ubuntu has a built-in package for no-ip.com called….you guessed it….no-ip. All I have to do was run the following command, follow the directions, enter in my account information and I was all set.
sudo apt-get install no-ip
It automatically adds it to the start up scripts. Now, this is where I ran into trouble. I also found out my router has a built-in application for dynamic dns. My question at this point was do I use one, the other, or both? First I need to configure port forwarding on my router. 80 to 80, 22 to 22 to my local ubuntu server – 192.168.0.111. I try all three options and I get nothing. At this point I can ping joef.no-ip.org and the public ip address and get a response. So I know its out there resolving the ip address properly, it just cant connect to the server.
So, to add add more confusion to the matter, I forgot that I have a separate router that doubles as a modem for my dsl line. until not that long ago, I didnt even realize this thing was a router, a wireless one at that. The cable guy set it up and I never gave it a second thought. Just plugged in my d-link and was on my way.
So now I have way too many variables in the mix, it really could be a shit load of things. I then try to set up port forwarding on my dsl router. That doesnt seem to work. My mentality was that I can forward port 80 to the dlink, then forward that on to the server. According to what I read on the internet, things dont work that way. At this point, I am tired and I want to go to bed.
Then today, at work, I am sitting there pondering this and it hits me – PLUG THE SERVER INTO THE DSL ROUTER!!!! Wow, why the shit didnt I think of this before? So I get home from work connect the server to the dsl router. It gave it an ip address right away. I configure port forwarding for the web server, restart the router, check http://joef.no-ip.org and it works. How refreshing. If there is one thing I am learning from this its how little I know about networking.
So, as my list gets smaller I have the following to go:
- ssh – to connect to the box remotely
- ftpd – send files to and from
- samba – share files locally (still debating)
- subversion – version software projects
After this I guess its onto configuring samba and getting some shared folders going across then network. I guess goonies really don’t die.
blueprint to the fall
22 October 2007 | music, rock show, strung out | No Responses
There is something about the air in chicago. There also something about seeing your favorite band rip apart the stage like you have never seen before. I had the best of both last night seeing Strung Out play at the Metro. Made the trek to and from in one night and dont regret a second of it. I guess I have one – I dont have any photographic evidence. You’d think we all the technology these days I would have some.
Oh well, I guess that is what I get for breaking my telephone. They played all the hits even the exhumation of virginia madison. I pretty much was satisfied at that point and it was half way through the set. Its the best I have ever seen them play…not saying the other times were bad just that they played longer than the other two and at this point they had even better songs in their arsenal.
All in all it was the ending to a perfect weekend. They other bands weren’t bad either. I am ghost were a lot better than I thought they would be and really nice guys. Evergreen Terrace could have kept there set a bit shorter, but they played some catchier songs which is a bit different from the rest of the metalcore these days and for the most part made up for it.
Also got to do some rocking this weekend. These songs are going somewhere even if it kills me. I see a bright light at the end of the tunnel. shine motherf-er, shine!!
joe
p.s. – I stoled these images from this guy…hope he doesn’t mind.
re-serve it up – timeout (gentoo woos)
4 October 2007 | dell server, lab, music | No Responses
Well, this is what I get for trying to re-install gentoo. Everything was working fine. I took a break last week and didnt get anything accomplished over the weekend. From what I read in the forums, the following error means really bad things are going on in the kernel:
!!! Block 303 is not a valid root device
Granted, I can get the machine up and running but there is no way I can remotely boot this thing if I wanted to and thats the whole point. From what I get from trying to understand what is greek to me, the correct module is not loading for my hard drive. Or, in other words, the operating system doesnt have the correct software to interface with my hard drive. So, pretty much have to configure the kernel manually. From what I understand this is exactly what the genkernel is supposed to do for you.
Things like this are exactly why I contemplate using the operating system. So, from here its either try to re-install re sync the portage tree and re-emerge the kernel, never remotely try to reboot the box, or re-stall the entire thing. All three are going to waste a bunch of my time, so I may as well throw a dart.
Anyway, this server thing my have to be put on hold for now because music is my current objective at the moment. I got what I think is another song down. We’ll see. Next step is jamming with jason and possibly recording so I dont forget. Something is on the horizon, I can fell it.
joe