Seems I was wrong to blame the seventh version. Installed 6.3 and the problem remained — the ADSL connection refused to come up. Turned out the card was acting up; after a wipe with alcohol and moving it to a different slot, it started working. Hooray, we …

Reporting season has arrived, which means I have less and less time for network tuning. For now I’ve given up on the wall sockets (figuratively speaking), plugged a patch cord into one of them leading to one of the old switches, and I’m working …

The first glitch was rather unexpected. I decided to set up remote access to the server so I wouldn’t have to walk across the hallway. I plug a patch cord into the socket and watch as the server refuses to respond to pings, while the port indicator …

So, about work.

A typical mid-sized government-owned office. A motley collection of PCs, network cabling running along the floor, no documentation, two cheap Surecom hubs/switches. However, the guy who managed all this before me is a very smart fellow. No …

Something like this server. Not exactly the same model, but close.

http://www1.euro.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/pedge_2950_3?c=ru&cs;=rubsdc&l;=ru&s;=bsd

Changed jobs. Going to do sysadmin work (well, general IT grunt work :) at a small office. Currently figuring out how everything is set up. Once things settle down, I’ll get back in touch with everyone. In brief — the network is ~15 machines. …

Turned out that watching Flash on FreeBSD is a non-trivial task. There is nothing to download from the Adobe site, and after installing from ports, Flash is still not visible in either Opera or Firefox. Found another workaround — will give it a try.

Open …

I’d be grateful if someone could point me to a guide on how to run VNC over SSH (on FreeBSD).

I tried to build Hamachi LogMeIn under FreeBSD — it started pulling in Linux packages and choked. I figured I didn’t know how to launch vncserver …

When Konsole is running with multiple tabs (logins), users are not shown by w. Interesting questions: a) why? b) what happens to the session if X or Konsole crashes?

Today is a very good day. I found a person I had lost long ago and missed terribly.

A wonderful guy with whom I have, you could say, been through thick and thin. We fought and made up, got offended and worked hard together. We learned — probably, I learned …