I’m tired of home improvement now.
Don’t really like the flash player doodad, so just click this
Yes yes… the first everyone notices and is most impressed with are the bricks :p
At least the bookshelf is a close second.
And there’s 3 inches of snow/ice of the freakin ground!!! Sigh….
Project Living Room is almost complete:
FYI – Paranormal Activity = creepy movie! Movies don’t scare me, this one at least weirded me out a little.
So I think I fixed my freezing pipe problem finally. No pictures yet, I’ll get to that later. In the meantime, what do you think? I might keep it this way…
Odd…. the upload isn’t working any more. Fixed it…. the Amazon Word Press plugin broke it.
Just fixed a problem that had been (unbeknownst to me) plaguing this place for who knows how long.
After rebooting a domain controller, the SQL servers would start throwing logon errors until it came back up. Most of the errors were from IIS that use windows auth, a few errors even came from the app servers. What made it especially tricky was that it really looked like a kerberos problem. Depending on what machine you were looking at, you’d get an error like
Login failed for user ”. The user is not associated with a trusted SQL Server connection.
or maybe
Logon Failure:
Reason: An error occurred during logon
… it’d go on to tell you what was wrong with Kerberos
and one
The Kerberos subsystem encountered a PAC verification failure
I saw a few
The failure code from authentication protocol Kerberos was The specified user does not exist
Long story short – I looked and poked and Googled… I couldn’t seem to find anyone that had reported this problem before (and I’m usually pretty good at putting together search terms that get me what I want) until I finally found a KB article that fit my hunch of what was happening. I don’t think I saw the “NO_SUCH_USER” code in any of the logs I looked through (maybe that’s what you get if you’re using NTLM?) but the rest of it sure sounded good. I tried the work-around on the domain controllers first – stopping the netlogon service before rebooting – and didn’t get a single error.
I deserve a raise. 😀
I’m adding a Windows 2008 RC2 (x64… if it matters) to an existing 2003 domain. Join the domain, everything’s happy, run all my forestprep & domainprep goodness… but dcpromo kept shitting itself with:
“Failed to examine the active directory forest. The error was: The operation cannot continue because the LDAP connect/bind operation failed: error: 58â€
The only thing I could find was this page which suggested the local admin account password had to be the same as the forest root domain password. Before I went through all the account renaming and hunting down the password (all your admin accounts get renamed, right? And no one really has that password?) I decided to just disable the local admin account on the 2008 server first. It worked. “WTF?O” indeed.
So I’m doing this again.
I’ve been a Blockbuster Online member pretty much since they launched… late 2004 I think. I tried Netflix at the same time – they both offered free two week trials. I started with Blockbuster because they gave me 2 coupons a month that I could use in the store for movies or games. I’ve stayed with them because of that and the in-store exchanges of movie. I rarely use either of those features of the plan, but when I do I’m really glad I have that ability. I don’t think new customers can even get the coupons anymore (or if they do, they aren’t good for games) but if they ever take it away from me, I will switch to Netflix in a heartbeat.
Netflix mailed me a ‘Hey, come back, try us again!” flyer a few weeks ago. Right about the same time they announced that they could stream your ‘Watch Instantly” queue to a PS3. I called to ask if I could get a streaming disc for my trial (you need to have their disc in the PS3 for all this to work) and they said no problem. I signed back up, and they actually still had all my account info from from back when.
So far their shipping speeds are faster than Blockbuster. It’ll be interesting to see what their turn-around times are. One of my complaints about Blockbuster lately has been how long it takes them to ship one after the get one back from you. One time it was almost 5 days – they had all 3 that I sent back and had yet to send another out. Every time I asked about, they’d blame it on some system bug and send me a coupon for a free rental or something. I think last time they actually just sent me a ‘rental bonus’ – so basically I had 4 out at a time, the bonus one didn’t count against my plan. That’s better I guess. I don’t like going to the store, I like things just showing up in the mail :D Blockbuster is also horrible at having enough Blu-Ray stock. This is not an exaggeration: The first 12 titles in my queue right now are on some kind of wait. Two “Long Wait”, two “Very Long”, the rest are “Short”. I have 7 titles in my Netflix queue, including the 4 that are Long/Very Long from Blockbuster, and they’re all available now. Netflix’s site is faster, cleaner, and I think more personalized.
We’ll see what happens. Their plans are about the same price once you factor in Netflix’s extra charge for Blu-ray access (which I think is stupid) so it’s going to come down to store vs. streaming. I really want to love Netflix – if they started letting me get games in the mail too, I’d instantly be theirs. Or course, as soon as they do that, Blockbuster probably buys Gamefly and competes.
… when the NIC has a heat-sink. So does the SFP. And we almost need to start talking in petabytes. Should be an interesting year.
If you understood all that, you’re a geek. But Happy New Year anyway.
PS: Up In the Air – two thumbs up. Great movie. You should watch it.
Every few months I look through the stats for this site just for giggles. Here is an actual search phrase used to find this site: “jesus rita do i look fat as hell”
Top result in google. 😀
I seriously just killed the entire first season of Sons of Anarchy in less than a week. Partly because it’s a pretty good show, partly because there’s nothing else on my DVR, and partly because I’m flat broke and can’t go do anything else 😀
Blockbuster.com is seriously pissing me off. I’m about to go to Netflix (or nothing) My queue has been screwy for a month now – first they weren’t sending anything, then they sent two movies twice (one of which never showed up) and now it looks like they aren’t processing anything again. And now I can’t do anything about it because I get an “Internal Server Error 500” when I try to edit my queue. If I didn’t still get the 2 coupons a month good for a movie or a game, I would have canceled a long time ago. As soon as they take that away, I will. Besides, Netflix offers free streaming (have to pay BB for it) and I can stream to my PS3.
My kitchen remodel woes continue…. six months later. The Blanco Cascade Super Single sink that I had put in now leaks. From the little bit of looking around I’ve done, it’s happened before. I thought these things were supposed to be tough as granite. There’s a crack across the back that goes all the way through. If I try to fill the sink with more than an inch of water it leaks. These are not cheap sinks, they shouldn’t fail after 6 months. They do offer a limited lifetime warranty… but they don’t cover labor. They guys who originally put it in want $150 to swap them, and that’s if they don’t have to move the counters to do it. And I don’t think they do the plumbing (which I can do, that’s no big deal) they only take the old sink out and put the new sink in. Sigh. To really cap everything off, the replacement sink showed up a few days ago… and it’s the wrong color. They even asked for pictures of the existing sink, and still got it wrong. The kitchen is really the only part of the whole thing that I hired someone to do parts of, and those parts have really been screwed up.
Ok… back to looking for a good hosted VMWare solution for DR.
For some time I keep getting a few search hits a month on “craig mitchell she hates my futon” (I posted about it awhile ago)
Maybe, just maybe he means it this time. myboot / famousboot 2.0
If you’re completely confused, you can get a jump on it via The Wayback Machine I will warn you though, it’s been almost 10 years with no more chapters. You’ll be hurt, angry, and randomly Google-ing “She hates my futon” for years to come.