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Happy Halloween!

Finally got some pictures of the new place up on the web. For some reason our computer wouldn't read about half the photos off of the card, so we'll have to get more pics of the place with all of the furniture in it.

All right! That wasn't half as bad as I expected. The servers are back up and running now, with Comcast cable (FYI Cyrus: it's paid-for and wired, not stolen and wireless ;). I only wasted about 3.5 hours, which is pretty good for these home ISP-type things. Now I need to call and cancel with Netrack, which is sad because they were a great ISP for me while I had DSL. They came highly recommended to me, and after about 5 months without a hitch, I would also recommend them highly. Plus they gave me a cool bottle opener when I went over to pick up my router.

This is my first experience with cable modems, so I was wondering if anyone out there had an idea of what the DHCP setup is with these cable networks? While I was configuring my network, I was switching back and forth between a Win2K box and my OBSD 3.6 box, which was trying in vain to get a new address. The trick was to power off the cable modem, then try the OBSD box again. Since the Win2k box had gotten the first address after the cable modem booted originally, the OBSD machine couldn't get one. My best guess is that the DHCP server is configured to give only one address out to a modem and that the modem drops its current lease during reboot, enabling the machine behind it (the OBSD box, in my case) to get a new address. Anyway...at least it works now.

Pictures of my new "office" are coming soon...

Hey anyone who is in the habit of compulsively checking their RSS reader for updates to my blog will be disappointed over the next couple of days because I am going to be moving my server over to the new apartment. And then I will be on cable, most likely, so whatever new issues I have to combat with the cable company (dynamic IP, blocked ports, etc) may take some additional time.

On the plus side, I'm hoping that when I get the server migrated, I can use this cool, old-skool Heath kit terminal that Bob gave me as an 'always-on' screen for my Soekris.

My buddy Dave Clements has a post about his observations of mediocrity during the interview and hiring process. Right on, man.

It seems that the new address we're moving to, less than a mile from our current address, cannot get Qwest DSL service. Yay! I am so happy I could jump off my fourth story deck headfirst. After all of that work to get Netrack as my ISP...getting a nice little Cisco 675, tricking out my Soekris 4511, etc., now I'm going to have to do it all over again with a different ISP, different medium (cable), and different muzak when I get put on hold for asking crazy questions like "can I get a static IP address please?" This is one area in life where I hate change. I think it's time to co-locate.

What sucks even worse than having to re-configure a bunch of stuff is that my upstream speed is going to take a dive if I end up going with Comcast. It doesn't look like there's any way around that--even the business options from Comcast seemed to have pretty crappy upstream speeds.

I knew this new apartment was too good to be true. Oh well.