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Linux Network Interface Channel Bonding and DHCP

While configuring a few servers I noticed some strange behavior with mode 4 channel bonding (LACP / 802.3ad) and DHCP. You might get the following error message, no matter what you do: Determining IP information for bond0… failed; no link present. Check cable? The problem appears to exist in how the interface responds to link [...]

Feeding the sharks

In hopes that a spam spider will grab these websites and spam them up (for a little interwebnets experiment), i’m going to post these links here. Pay no attention to them if you’re human.  http://forums.code86.com http://www.uberboxen.com

Yay Bodum mugs arrived

Bodum Bistro 10oz Honestly when i bought them I didn’t know they were shipping from an hour where I lived. I wound up buying it at Amazon here.

My love\hate relationship with coffee mugs

Coffee mugs. Really, why is it so hard to make a decent coffee mug? All I want is a clean looking simple design that has a handle firmly attached, and a nice quality thermal construction. Well, I’m an engineer, an unemployed one at that so I’ve come up with an idea to get my ideal [...]

Working with old servers

So I thought the simple installation of HandBrake would go smoothly on a Linux server I was working on. All I needed to do was download the pre-compiled binary and it would work since it was compiled for Intel and the server was a quad core Intel right? Not so, since the server was running an [...]

So back on the track…

to working on another website. Lets see how this goes!