Here are some things you can’t yet do with IPv6: PXE Boot: There is no Preboot eXecutable Environment boot standard for IPv6 yet, but there are some developments towards this goal. PXE v2.1 is a 1999 non-open standard, and it … Continue reading
I have two IPv6 tunnels with subnets, one from SixXS and one from Hurricane Electric. (Why? Eh, I’m a tinkerer.) I had them both active and responding to tunnel broker pings on my Cisco E2000 with DD-WRT v24-sp2 rev 14929 firmware, but … Continue reading
I’ve been looking at my headers the old-fashioned way with curl -I and wget –save-headers, but I notice Chrome and IE have some pretty advanced site diagnostics built-in now. Here I am using Chrome’s F12 to check my HTTP headers … Continue reading
I am going to blog about the technical production of the weekly live webcast DBAs@Midnight, but I will be posting as midnightFreddie, the nickname and Twitter handle I adopted when joining the show. The name is based on Freddy from iCarly. Freddy … Continue reading
When I don’t have the proper home internet service to run my own public servers I get an unmanaged Virtual Private Server (VPS). I’ve spent quite a few years running everything off of a VPS because I’ve been moving from … Continue reading
Computer video concepts can be very confusing, and streaming adds more complexity, live streaming possibly more so. This is largely because there are competing proprietary methods for encoding, storing and transporting video. I’ll try to break it down for you … Continue reading
I tech produce a weekly live webcast. Although we occasionally toy with the idea of sponsorship, it’s a not-for-profit show mostly intended to inform and entertain a particular IT community. This means we try to do everything for free, or … Continue reading
Ubuntu Lucid 10.04 LTS and I just aren’t getting along well so far. In past Linux upgrades I was able to keep my data and config files (after checking config files against new versions for any major changes), and the … Continue reading
(Quick answer: Manage Add-ons, highlight Search Providers type, and the check box is in the bottom pane of the window.) (Quick note: There is no setting to add a search bar to IE9. You either search from the address bar … Continue reading
I’ve had an eventful couple of months revolving around wanting to move this web server from a hosted VPS to my home and both the old and new environments running into upgrade troubles. The hosted VPS was an old stable … Continue reading
