Thu, 24 Aug 2006

Bookmark : Notes On screen

For my reference, a couple of helpful hints for using screen--something I should do more often:

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Funnies

It may say something about me that I found a number of the comics on xkcd laugh-out-loud funny, including these two:

 

(I'm assuming from the direct image URL listed on the pages it's okay to inlcude the images inline--after all I don't want the guy to put some mathematic voodoo on me...)

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Wed, 23 Aug 2006

Reading Airport Express Logs Without syslog

A couple of days ago I was trying to get a new device connected to an Airport Express AP but wasn't having any success. I wanted to find out if the problem was authorisation-related or something else. I knew that the Airport Admin Utility allows you to set the base station to log to a syslog host but I didn't want to go through the hassle of configuring such a setup.

I eventually discovered an article stating the Airport Extreme Base Station has a 128KB local log cache. The article also described how to configure syslog on a remote machine. More interestingly for me it also mentioned you can read the cached logs on the base station using an "AirPort Management Utility". The tool apparently used to be documented but that's now a dead link. I assume it's documented in the Airport Extreme Base Station manuals (Update: it is) but nowhere else on Apple's site seems to describe it.

I did find a download link for the AirPort Management Utility from the AirPort support page.

I decided I'd see if the utility would find logs on the Airport Express as well and long story short it did. Cool, no configuration necessary. (Only other description of the tool.)

Update: Weird, Planet didn't seem to like the <tt> in the post title so I removed it...

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A Mile Long List; A Mile High Pile

I am back in New Zealand and not enjoying the 30 degree celsius difference in temperature. Have a million and one things on my to do list. How does everyone else deal with the seemingly eve-rgrowing "to do" list, especially when completing one item seems to generate two more?

Telstra Broadband and Routers

It seems while I was away our internet connection was forcibly upgraded to a new plan. Seem to get ~450KB/s which is a distinct improvement. (Update: Another speed test site.) Kinda stupid when you can burn a month's traffic allowance in less than half a day though.

Also, can someone help me with a Telstra router question? A few days ago someone posted on Planet NZTech about the newer high speed connections being not entirely compatible with older Telstra-supplied routers. I thought I'd made a note of the post but I appear not to be able to find it. If you know the post I'm referring to could you please flick me an email with the URL to follower at rancidbacon.com--thanks.

Update: Okay, so it turned out I just hadn't looked in the right tab of the right window of the right browser to find I had kept the post about the old Telstra router/cable modem open. :-) So, we have a SB3100 which I guess is worse than the SB4100 mentioned?

Searching and OPML

I tried to search Technorati for the post I was looking for above but didn't have any luck. It did make me wonder if there's a service out there that you can point to a OPML subscription file and say "search for [this] in the last [N] day's posts in these blogs". Anyone know of one?

Or do I have to add that to my to do list as well..?

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