Category: I insist it's personal

I have successfully migrated all the contents of my developer space to my new personal domain: http://www.deathwing00.org In the upcoming weeks I will make some improvements and upload pretty interesting stuff, like some new nagios plugins. I will be keeping my blog in Gentoo for now.

Apart from that, I plan to go to FOSDEM this year. I will probably go with my own group this time, as I do not want last day surprises. It is not that I do not trust the current people organizing the event, but I had bad experiences in the past and I would prefer to have it my way this time. Anyway, see you all there!

After a few days in Mountain View, CA, I am back to Spain. The town is very nice… and very extensive. I never imagined that the fact that there were no blocks of appartments would imply that a city of so few inhabitants could occupy such a large extension.

The purpose of the trip will remain secret, at least for now, even though some people might already presume the reasons…

Apart from that, I can state for the few days I was there, that the city itself is safe and that their inhabitants are very kind and are always eager to give some directions to lost visitors… 😉

It has been a great experience and I hope that I will be able to repeat it in a near future. We’ll see about that.

I also got a nice driving experience from that… I am used to manual transmission cars and it was the first time that I had to drive an automatic one. I am not used to such an amount of horsepower either, however it was pretty quick for me to master the car itself. What was harder was to not get lost among so many roads and streets and highways. Maybe the signals on the road, as they are different from Europe, made my life a bit more tricky. Anyhow, it’s just to get used to it; the last day I was already comfortable with it and surprisingly I didn’t get lost even once! 🙂

Back to Spain now, back to work, back to Gentoo. Yes, I know that I missed April’s bugday, but I assure you it was worth it! B)

See ya everyone on IRC and on the forums.

Thinking of it as my first post to the blog, I have to thank Steve Dibb ‘beandog’ for setting it up for me so quickly. Thanks beandog!

Now the good news. As some people might have noticed, I was offline since Wednesday, October 11, 2006. My internet connection went down unexpectedly. After digging into the logs of the cable modem, I discovered that although it was able to acquire the upstream and downstream channels, it failed to contact my ISPs DHCP server. In fact, the cable modem was complaining that it received no DHCP offers.

I was forced to call my ISP and report the issue. They replied me that they changed some of their systems and that all Motorola cable modems would be unusable for a determined period of time. In fact, they told me that the issue would be solved at 3:30 pm on Thursday, however that did not happen and I was forced to call again. This time they replied that it would be solved at 11:30 pm of the same day. I wish it was true. The next day on the morning (today, Friday), I was still with no internet connection. Seeing the poor results of my ISP’s efforts, I decided to call them once again and request them to change the cable modem immediately as I needed my internet connection at all costs before the evening. After some minutes standing by, they said that they could not do such thing until the issue with the Motorola cable modems was solved. Now that was awful! I asked them to replace my cable modem because the one I had didn’t work and they replied me that they couldn’t do that until it did work.

Anyhow, I went to the univeristy in order to take care of what I had to do. I had my SSH keys on me (passphrase protected, of course) so I logged in really quickly into woodpecker, set up my .devaway and notified a few people on freenode about the situation.

Lucky me, at about 8:00 pm the internet connection was restored and I had over 700 email messages pending for reading, spam excluded.