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mdlbearSunday morning, just hours before my flight left for Seattle, our router finally became unusable. It had been deteriorating for quite a while; I have no idea what the problem was. It would be good for a while after a reboot, then the lags would get steadily worse. By Sunday the "while" was down to about five minutes. I spent the rest of the day struggling to recover.
By the time I had to leave I had gotten our Linux-based WAP more-or-less configured, but it turned out that I had neglected to test ssh-ing in from the WAN side. So I spent the entire week without access to the files on the inside of the firewall. Including my email archives and password database.
Fortunately, I was able to set up email forwarding from savitzky.net to my gmail account, so I didn't miss much. Next time, though, things will be different. I'll write about that at some length later, for the geeks in my audience.
The flight was paid for by one of the two companies I had interviews with, Zillow. They'd booked through the aptly-named cheapflights.com (and ended up paying more than they would have through Southwest); my flights out were on Delta, and back on Alaska. Bletch.
I arrived in Shoreline well after midnight, and flopped into bed.
Monday morning I went with Naomi to get my first look at the new apartment, and pick up keys. Spent the rest of the week slightly croggled by the idea; there's nothing that makes it quite as real as a set of keys and a tape measure (which I wielded on Wednesday).
Monday afternoon was my interview at Zillow -- several coding tests and a lot of data structure and algorithm questions. I think I did ok. Gorgeous view from the 31st floor, a block from the waterfront. Great atmosphere -- it would be a fun place to work.
Tuesday afternoon was Intentional Software. Tougher questions for the most part, no idea how I did on that one. Very opulent and quiet offices, which I guess is what you can expect with Microsoft billionaires bankrolling it. Brilliant people; on average an older crowd than Zillow.
We'll see.
Wednesday I ran errands with Naomi, and we had lunch in Columbia City at a diner called Geraldine's Corner. Yummy chili with a side of excellent hashbrowns. After that she showed me the huge Goodwill in that area. I'll be back.
Thursday morning I had brunch with Chaos at another diner -- Shari's in Lynnwood. Which left me with just exactly enough time to drive down to Seatac and return my rental car. The trip back was, mercifully, nonstop, so I was able to get home in time for dinner. And to finish fixing the network setup, which only took about an hour once I had access from the inside.
All in all, a good trip.
Quite a few links in the notes, such as one accumulates over the course of five days without an update. The New Map of the Solar System has all thirteen planets (counting the five dwarfs).
0610 Su * up 7:45; W=199.2; d, n, t; dishes * final packing. All carry-on this trip. @ Linux on Microsoft Azure Platform-as-a-Service: Big Whoop | TechCrunch @ Alzheimer’s vaccine trial a success f(Laura Davidson) : Net connection seems to have gone to hell in a handbasket, possibly because the router is ill -- rebooting seems to fix it temporarily. OTOH it might be due to the IPv6 changeover. Rebooting the modem didn't help? : 10:50 OK; connection seems to be more-or-less working now, but Stargate still seriously wonky. Slow. Passes chkrootkit and rkhunter. Passes memtest. * 4:12 down to the wire; working using WAP as gateway. OUCH! : at airport discovered that I have a new DHCP lease, so different addr! hosed. Of course, all my passwords are at home. : plane is tiny. Last time I fly delta out of SJ -- I'll buy the tickets myself if I have to. * print Westercon set lyrics * be at airport 4:30 terminal A * Leave Sun, Jun 10 4hr 50min Total time $25 to check a bag :( Delta Air Lines record locator: G9FYP6 Depart San Jose, California Delta 6:20PM flt# 4685 SJC Terminal A Stop 1 Salt Lake City, Utah 9:04 Terminal 2 Change planes. Time between flights: 0hr 57min Depart Salt Lake City, Utah Delta 10:01PM flt# 1557 Arrive Seattle, Washington 11:10 PM Dollar - Mid-size - Seattle/Tacoma Confirmation # Q6729549 06/10/2012 - 06/14/2012 Rapid Rewards Number: 00000449453373 * the plane from SLC to SEA considerably roomier, and nobody in the middle seat. Guessing that Delta may be in decline, which wouldn't surprise me. * got to bed somewhere around 1am; had trouble falling asleep (no surprise) = mdlbear.livejournal.com 10 years old as of 0610 0611 Mo * up 6:30 or so. d, n, t * try to get IP addy by -Colleen- _Devon_ using speedtest or some such. If no dice, can maybe have her log in as me and email. Maybe not. CRAP. Looking at -> logs on savitzky.net even better - have D. connect to s.s.net. -> as it turns out, nagios does just fine! IP addy hasn't changed. * first order of business - forward email to mdlbear at gmail. of course that requires a password! I may be totally hosed. -> browser had it. Old email, but could show the password, so win. ~ may be possible to find dsl by a scan. Might be ...59; try that too. * linked-in msg to Eric Anderson @ Port Forwarding - DD-WRT Wiki Looks like it doesn't have a way to map the destination port using the web interface. :P Should work w/ port 22, though, since ssh isn't listening. Can also try ip:port notation. * print google maps directions to Intentional * ping Karise about who I'm seeing at Intentional * go with N. to get keys! Happy bear! * 1pm - 5 -- interview at Zillow. We don?t have a receptionist; please give me a call at extension# 7111 when you arrive at the 31^st floor. Russell Investments Center 1301 Second Avenue Floor 31 Seattle, WA 98101 corporate HQ : 1-206-470-7000; will probably work. direct dial? -> right next to Seattle Art Museum! Cool! -> fantastic view. Great bunch of people. Open plan with low partitions; most of the programmers were wearing expensive headphones. * -if- can't ssh: have devon set up port forwarding, since that can be done without having to log in as me. May be able to get a roadmap in the docs. -> fail. Probably firewalling in the UVerse router; can't even ping % 8:35 suddenly hit by a wave of surreality. * gave N the new platypus that attached herself to me at Baycon. * 9:26 particularly hot, and sleepy 0612 Tu * up 7:10; d, n, t; a little exercise @ Twilight of the Trucks: WWDC Was All About Apple’s Big Bet on Mobile @ Survival of the Fittest? | The Dark Mountain Project f(Lorien Patton) @ Transparent Git Encryption — Gist shadowhand/git-encrypt · GitHub * measurements, pictures in apartment. * Tuesday, 6/12 from 1:00 to 5:00 Intentional Address: 2821 Northup Way Bellevue, WA 98004 -> huge contrast to Zillow. Ivory-towerish. Very nice digs, though no view to speak of. All dev. in C# on Windows, of course. 0613 We * up 6:40ish; d, n, t % misread "Civil engineering" as "Evil engineering" in an ad. :) @Bouncing Back from Job Loss: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Job Hunters * made user with encrypted home, for preserving secrets on the netbook. * good way to do privacy: have another user with an encrypted home directory. Log in over ssh using the password, and run pwgrep etc. on the ssh cmd line. alternatively encrypt the tree with rsyncrypto * Out with N to Cortiva, lunch at Geraldine's Counter in Columbia City, Goodwill. The Goodwill is huge. Geraldine's is definitely a keeper - good diner fare. Had a bowl of chili and a side of hash browns. @ duplicity encrypted backups doesn't do hardlinks, so won't work for email. Switch to maildir? * forwarding s@s.net to gmail has been working well so far. Should set up reply-to, if possible. (done at compose time; otoh you can change the from: address, which works even better) @ A Red State Rebuke to Religious Fear Mongering | The Nation @ppact @ Error Code 451: an HTTP error for censorship - Boing Boing draft-tbray-http-legally-restricted-status-00 - A New HTTP Status Code for Legally-restricted Resources 0614 Th * up 7; d, n, t @ SSW Content Navigation and Management | Shared Story Worlds @ Karl Paulnack Welcome Address | The Boston Conservatory f(Annie Walker) . reading Open Advice @ beckyzoole | The New Map of the Solar System (ysabetwordsmith | 13 Planets) @ ACM A.M. Turing Centenary Celebration * 10:30 leave for Linnwood * 11ish Brunch with Kat Tasty diner: Shari's. Went grocery shopping Shari's has yummy fresh strawberry jam for $6/jar afterward; Albertson's. Left from there for airport. * Return Thu, Jun 14 2hr 1min seats assigned @airport American Airlines record locator: LALUSQ AA# 774JF66 Depart Seattle, Washington American 4:05 OM flt# 6775 Arrive San Jose, California 6:06 SJC Terminal B * had a double gin on the rocks; may have been a little excessive. * back home, realizing that the network is still massively screwed up. -> cygnus works wired, not wifi; probably a DHCP setup problem. * Fixed multiple {dsl, wap} router issues. Seems to work now. Sheesh! * move the external git repos from dsl to -bitbucket or- savitzky.net Private is probably ok out there, too. * Colleen's email isn't working -- "error while fetching mail" may be bad info from old DHCP -> no problem now. * YD's new laptop isn't booting. -> (via SMS) works now; apparently the battery was just flatlined.
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