A long time ago a friend of mine had the double-LP progressive rock album Jeff Wayne’s Musical Version of The War of the Worlds. I dredged up a bootleg on youtube and listened to it again.

After I upgraded my WRT3200ACM router to OpenWRT v23.05.3, my laptop took minutes to get an IPv4 address when connected to my WRT3200ACM router’s WiFi. It only takes seconds to get an IPv4 address when connected to my other WiFi.

I ended up downgrading OpenWRT on the WRT3200ACM, but first I did a lot of work trying to track down the problem.

After I upgraded to OpenWRT 23.05.3, my Linksys WRT3200ACM WiFi router seems to interact poorly with my Dell E7470 laptop. It takes many tens of seconds for that laptop to acquire an IPv4 address via DHCP.

I decided to downgrade OpenWRT Linux on the router from 23.05.3 to 19.07.10. I believe it was running 19.07 before I started on my sysadmin journey of switching to a new server.

I found this ad in the on-line Washington Post, May 17, 2024. I feel puzzled.

I’ve had an interest in accurate timekeeping and NTP, the Network Time Protocol for quite a while.

At one time or another over the years, I’ve run the original ntpd, xntpd, and OpenNTPD. I currently have the chrony NTP server running on my old server, to aggregate NTP needs on my home network.

Another fortune from the local strip mall Chinese restaurant.

I had been hosting this blog on a $5 a month VPS from Host the Best, but they have been shut down by the data center they’re renting from. Host the Best is apparently not dealing with abusive customers effectively.

There’s no projected service restoration date.

Unix, and now Linux, have included a wc command for a very long time. Most explanations of its use are misleading fluff and garbage, and do not give you an appreciation of its true value.

I decided to try the kea DHCP daemon on my production server.