ARIN’s Z day
ARIN announced today the depletion of its IPv4 resources from their free pool. Only AfriNIC remains before all public IPv4 addresses are depleted. IPv6, anyone?
Read More → ARIN’s Z dayARIN close to Z day
ARIN, the American Registry for Internet Numbers, is closing in on their Z day. Soon only AfriNIC will have IPv4 address blocks available for their customers, and even AfriNIC will run out of IPv4 addresses sometime in the year 2019. See ARIN’s IPv4 depletion webpage for more information. The bottom line is: Start using IPv6!
Read More → ARIN close to Z dayBad KBs
Microsoft continues their sneaky trend by camouflaging Windows 10 related updates as “Update for Windows 7 for x64-based Systems”. I would avoid installing these six (five actually) updates, identified by their KB numbers: KB2952664, Compatibility update for upgrading Windows 7 KB3022345, Update for customer experience and diagnostic telemetry (superseded by KB3068708, see below) KB3035583, Update […]
Read More → Bad KBsIT-oppvask
Fylket krev er IT-oppvask Fylket[s] krev er IT-oppvask Fylket[s] kr[a]v er IT-oppvask Fylket [krever] IT-oppvask Pussig nok står dette riktig skrevet i <TITLE>-elementet … Ref: http://www.h-a.no/debatt/mandag1, 2015-09-09.
Read More → IT-oppvaskDell PowerEdge R320, JBOD, mfi(4), and gpart(8)
One of the old webservers at work, a Dell PowerEdge R200, crashed a couple of weeks ago. I suspect the six year old motherboard finally gave up.
Read More → Dell PowerEdge R320, JBOD, mfi(4), and gpart(8)Appraiser or Hellraiser? KB2952644
I declined KB2952664 in our WSUS instance. This update phones home and reports whatever you have installed. I see no reason to be spied upon. Not to mention that this update is not a oneshot update, it creates a couple of scheduled tasks that run regularly. This one is related to KB3035583, and both should […]
Read More → Appraiser or Hellraiser? KB2952644Programming — Principles and Practice Using C++, 2nd edition
I got my copy of “Programming — Principles and Practice Using C++”, second edition, today. My copy is of the third printing, dated June 2015, so it’s a pretty recent printing. I’m not teaching programming nor C++ at my school, although I used to. My job is simply to be the school’s system administrator, but […]
Read More → Programming — Principles and Practice Using C++, 2nd editionFreeBSD/i386, stable/10, OpenSSL from ports, optimized assembly code, Dell PowerEdge 1950, Xeon X5450@3.00GHz, and BIOS 2.5.0
The strange combination of FreeBSD/i386, stable/10, OpenSSL from ports, optimized assembly code, Dell PowerEdge 1950, Intel Xeon X5450@3.00GHz, and BIOS 2.5.0, resulted in core dumps for all applications linked with OpenSSL from ports.
Read More → FreeBSD/i386, stable/10, OpenSSL from ports, optimized assembly code, Dell PowerEdge 1950, Xeon X5450@3.00GHz, and BIOS 2.5.0mosh 1.2.5 with IPv6 on CygWin
Finally, a CygWin package for mosh 1.2.5 is available. Run to your nearest CygWin mirror and update your system. If you’re new to CygWin, I advise you to select mosh, Perl, and OpenSSH, in addition to the base set of packages selected for you.
Read More → mosh 1.2.5 with IPv6 on CygWinCygWin 2.871 (64 bit) and mintty 2.1.1 – STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION
mosh 1.2.5 is out, but not yet available as a CygWin package. I decided I should upgrade my CygWin installation in preparation. That proved not so fruitful. The new mintty 2.1.1 crashed with the infamous STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION stack dump. I’m a bit surprised there’s no mintty-debuginfo package as it would make it easier to know what’s […]
Read More → CygWin 2.871 (64 bit) and mintty 2.1.1 – STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION