Geek update
2003-09-21 05:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mdlbearI am still working to get my gateway and fileserver upgraded. The gateway is basically done. Unfortunately I'm about to lose my early-morning time, when I would normally have done the cut-over.
The gateway is a newly-configured Debian box, and it's basically working at this point. The biggest hangup was figuring out how Debian deals with interfaces that respond to multiple IP addresses; the documentation is sketchy and not all in one place. Things were complicated by the fact that I'm trying to keep the old gateway up as long as possible so as not to disrupt things -- this is a home system we're talking about here...
The fileserver is going less well; some readers may remember that the disk I had planned to use, and in fact had installed the new OS on, turned out to be damaged. (The fact that I had rescued it from a discard pile should have been a hint...) The current plan involves a clean install on another machine (done),
In other news, the new TV antenna (which I purchased a couple of weeks ago) is up. Definitely a two-person job. We've been needing a new antenna for a while; the old one was gradually falling apart (it's slightly disconcerting to find a piece of antenna in the driveway when taking out the garbage).
Unfortunately, since the rotator (from Radio Shack about 20 years ago) is totally gone at this point, there isn't a good way to point the antenna, so our reception on the few UHF stations we care about is pretty poor. I'll have to go up and adjust it, but that of course requires a cooperative observer in the house.
Installing the new antenna also didn't fix the most recent problem, a blue screen on all UHF stations. That turned out to be caused by, not the disintigrating UHF part of the antenna, but by somebody putting the VCR's tuner into
The gateway is a newly-configured Debian box, and it's basically working at this point. The biggest hangup was figuring out how Debian deals with interfaces that respond to multiple IP addresses; the documentation is sketchy and not all in one place. Things were complicated by the fact that I'm trying to keep the old gateway up as long as possible so as not to disrupt things -- this is a home system we're talking about here...
The fileserver is going less well; some readers may remember that the disk I had planned to use, and in fact had installed the new OS on, turned out to be damaged. (The fact that I had rescued it from a discard pile should have been a hint...) The current plan involves a clean install on another machine (done),
tar (done), and final configuration in place. Ugly, but it should eventually work. In other news, the new TV antenna (which I purchased a couple of weeks ago) is up. Definitely a two-person job. We've been needing a new antenna for a while; the old one was gradually falling apart (it's slightly disconcerting to find a piece of antenna in the driveway when taking out the garbage).
Unfortunately, since the rotator (from Radio Shack about 20 years ago) is totally gone at this point, there isn't a good way to point the antenna, so our reception on the few UHF stations we care about is pretty poor. I'll have to go up and adjust it, but that of course requires a cooperative observer in the house.
Installing the new antenna also didn't fix the most recent problem, a blue screen on all UHF stations. That turned out to be caused by, not the disintigrating UHF part of the antenna, but by somebody putting the VCR's tuner into
cable mode. Grrr. 