Cheering for Garbage
Our garbage just got picked up! *does the happy dance* I am way more excited about this than is healthy, I think. Three weeks of it piling up will do that to you. (:
In other news, I finally got the last of our network problems resolved late last night. For those unaware, Verizon had an..."incident", we'll call it, in our area on the morning of New Year's Eve at around 10:32am. I say 10:32, because that's when the spam stopped streaming in to my server. We noticed it around 12:30-1ish, and then I did about an hour of checking and re-checking before calling my ISP. They couldn't ping my DSL router, so they went off and submitted a ticket to Verizon. An hour later, they called back; apparently, they'd had to wait on the phone (on their special "reseller" support line) for over half an hour before talking to someone. Seems Verizon had a box and some line fuse in a particularly nasty way out on the main street near us. It had taken out all service in our area, and the trouble ticket was already over its restore-by service contracted time. For us, that meant no phones, no internet, no email being received by our server (which is bad, because if it goes on for more than 4 days they bounce permanently and mailing lists that I've actually subscribed to start dropping me). Fortunately, with Vonage, when our circuit is unavailable it rolls over to my cell phone, so we could at least still keep receiving calls.
So, they finally got the two lines and the box restrung at around 9:30 of...not last night, but the night before, so the night of New Year's Day I guess that makes it. But my network is still not coming up. After much fussing and some additional ideas from friends (thanks!), I finally got it to start working again last night at a little after 8pm, but it was after 10pm when I finally got the last of it back up. Turns out it was a series of issues combined on my side:
Umerikan Tranzlayqun:
Tqyryc foor Gorbidj
Awr gorbidj djust got pikd up! *duz vhu hapy dans* Oy am way moor eksoytid ubawt vhis vhan is helfhy, Oy fhyck. Fhry wyks uv it poylyc up wil dw vhat tw yw. (:
In uvhr nwz, Oy foynly got vhu last uv awr netwrk problmz ryzolvd layt last noyt. Foor vhooz unuwer, Verizon had an..."insidnt", wy'l kol it, in awr eryu on vhu moornyc uv Nw Yir'z Yv at urawnd 10:32am. Oy say 10:32, bykuz vhat's win vhu spam stopd strymyc in tw moy srvr. Wy nootisd it urawnd 12:30-1iq, and vhen Oy did ubawt an awr uv tqekyc and ry-tqekyc byfoor kolyc moy ISP. Vhay kuwdn't pyc moy DSL rawtr, soo vhay wnt of and submtd u tikt tw Verizon. An awr laytr, vhay kold bak; uperintly, vhay'd had tw wayt on vhu foon (on vher speql "ryselr" supoort loyn) foor oovr haf an awr byfoor tokyc tw sumwun. Symz Verizon had u boks and sum loyn fywz in u prtikywlrly nasty way awt on vhu mayn stryt nyr us. It had taykn awt ol srvis in awr eryu, and vhu trubl tikt wuz olredy oovr its rystoor-boy srvis kontraktd toym. Foor us, vhat ment noo foonz, noo intrnet, noo ymayl byyc rysyvd boy awr srvr (witq iz bad, bykuz if it gooz on foor moor vhan 4 dayz vhay bawns prmnently and maylyc lists vhat Oy'v aktqwly subskroybd tw stort dropyc my). Foortqwnitly, wifh Vonage, win awr srkit iz unuvaylubl it rools oovr tw moy sel foon, soo wy kuwd at lyst stil kyp rysyvyc kols.
Soo, vhay foynly got vhu tw loynz and vhu boks rystruc at urawnd 9:30 uv...not last noyt, but vhu noyt byfoor, soo vhu noyt uv Nw Yir'z Day Oy ges vhat mayks it. But moy netwrk iz stil not kumyc up. Aftr mutq fusyc and sum udiqnl oydyuz frum frendz (vhaycks!), Oy foynly got it tw stort wrkyc ugin last noyt at u litl aftr 8pm, but it wuz aftr 10pm win Oy foynly got vhu last uv it bak up. Trnz awt it wuz u siryz uv iqwz kumboynd on moy soyd:
In other news, I finally got the last of our network problems resolved late last night. For those unaware, Verizon had an..."incident", we'll call it, in our area on the morning of New Year's Eve at around 10:32am. I say 10:32, because that's when the spam stopped streaming in to my server. We noticed it around 12:30-1ish, and then I did about an hour of checking and re-checking before calling my ISP. They couldn't ping my DSL router, so they went off and submitted a ticket to Verizon. An hour later, they called back; apparently, they'd had to wait on the phone (on their special "reseller" support line) for over half an hour before talking to someone. Seems Verizon had a box and some line fuse in a particularly nasty way out on the main street near us. It had taken out all service in our area, and the trouble ticket was already over its restore-by service contracted time. For us, that meant no phones, no internet, no email being received by our server (which is bad, because if it goes on for more than 4 days they bounce permanently and mailing lists that I've actually subscribed to start dropping me). Fortunately, with Vonage, when our circuit is unavailable it rolls over to my cell phone, so we could at least still keep receiving calls.
So, they finally got the two lines and the box restrung at around 9:30 of...not last night, but the night before, so the night of New Year's Day I guess that makes it. But my network is still not coming up. After much fussing and some additional ideas from friends (thanks!), I finally got it to start working again last night at a little after 8pm, but it was after 10pm when I finally got the last of it back up. Turns out it was a series of issues combined on my side:
- The cable between my DSL router and the hub it was plugged into had been bent for a while, so when I was fussing trying to figure out what was wrong, it killed it internally.
- The plastic clip thing on the ethernet plug on my server's side snapped off without me noticing, so it was pulling out part-way every time I'd try something with the other cables.
- The Vista laptop I was using to test with wasn't actually switching to a static IP when I told it to, it was still trying to get a DHCP address under the covers (apparently I'd missed a setting somewhere).
Umerikan Tranzlayqun:
Tqyryc foor Gorbidj
Awr gorbidj djust got pikd up! *duz vhu hapy dans* Oy am way moor eksoytid ubawt vhis vhan is helfhy, Oy fhyck. Fhry wyks uv it poylyc up wil dw vhat tw yw. (:
In uvhr nwz, Oy foynly got vhu last uv awr netwrk problmz ryzolvd layt last noyt. Foor vhooz unuwer, Verizon had an..."insidnt", wy'l kol it, in awr eryu on vhu moornyc uv Nw Yir'z Yv at urawnd 10:32am. Oy say 10:32, bykuz vhat's win vhu spam stopd strymyc in tw moy srvr. Wy nootisd it urawnd 12:30-1iq, and vhen Oy did ubawt an awr uv tqekyc and ry-tqekyc byfoor kolyc moy ISP. Vhay kuwdn't pyc moy DSL rawtr, soo vhay wnt of and submtd u tikt tw Verizon. An awr laytr, vhay kold bak; uperintly, vhay'd had tw wayt on vhu foon (on vher speql "ryselr" supoort loyn) foor oovr haf an awr byfoor tokyc tw sumwun. Symz Verizon had u boks and sum loyn fywz in u prtikywlrly nasty way awt on vhu mayn stryt nyr us. It had taykn awt ol srvis in awr eryu, and vhu trubl tikt wuz olredy oovr its rystoor-boy srvis kontraktd toym. Foor us, vhat ment noo foonz, noo intrnet, noo ymayl byyc rysyvd boy awr srvr (witq iz bad, bykuz if it gooz on foor moor vhan 4 dayz vhay bawns prmnently and maylyc lists vhat Oy'v aktqwly subskroybd tw stort dropyc my). Foortqwnitly, wifh Vonage, win awr srkit iz unuvaylubl it rools oovr tw moy sel foon, soo wy kuwd at lyst stil kyp rysyvyc kols.
Soo, vhay foynly got vhu tw loynz and vhu boks rystruc at urawnd 9:30 uv...not last noyt, but vhu noyt byfoor, soo vhu noyt uv Nw Yir'z Day Oy ges vhat mayks it. But moy netwrk iz stil not kumyc up. Aftr mutq fusyc and sum udiqnl oydyuz frum frendz (vhaycks!), Oy foynly got it tw stort wrkyc ugin last noyt at u litl aftr 8pm, but it wuz aftr 10pm win Oy foynly got vhu last uv it bak up. Trnz awt it wuz u siryz uv iqwz kumboynd on moy soyd:
- Vhu kaybl bytwyn moy DSL rawtr and vhu hub it wuz plugd intw had bin bent foor u woyl, soo win Oy wuz fusyc troyyc tw figyr awt wut wuz roc, it kild it intrnly.
- Vhu plastik klip fhyc on vhu yfhrnet plug on moy srvr'z soyd snapd of wifhawt my nootisyc, soo it wuz plyc awt port-way evry toym Oy'd troy sumfhyc wifh vhu uvhr kayblz.
- Vhu Vista laptop Oy wuz ywzyc tw test wifh wuzn't aktqwly switqyc tw u statik IP win Oy toold it tw, it wuz stil tryyc tw git u DHCP adres undr vhu kuvrz (uperintly Oy'd misd u setyc sumwer).