Finally got around to scping my old theme over to the new server.  That wood paneling was getting on my nerves.

Everything is going well.  I’ve decided to get rid of all of the pre-2008 rubbish (8 years of crap, no loss).  Anyhow, I’ll hopefully be posting crap that I learn and dumb things that I do on computer — as that seems pretty common these days.

For example, last night I was upgrading my home server from a hacked up Debian install to run Ubuntu with all of the latest Xen parts (I run a number of virtual machines on it).  I have two Windows VMs that weren’t connecting to the internet.  In all of my poking and prodding to get Xen to correctly set up networking through qemu, I forgot to actually check to see what Windows had to say about the actual network cards.  It turns out that since I upgraded to Xen 3.2.1, the old virtual nics disappeared and new ones appeared.  I don’t run a DHCP server in my main network and since Windows by default uses DHCP for new network adapters, I officially did something stupid.

In addition, the other day I was teaching myself some basic IOS (Cisco’s “Internet Operating System”) and typed shutdown while configuring the port that trunked a few vlans (including the one with access to the outside).  Had to run down the hall…

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