Pretty good 3-day weekend.  Spent some time relaxing, reading, coding, hanging out w/coworkers, and playing some video games.

Oh, yeah, also spent some quality time trying to burn DVDs on Linux.  {cd,dvd}record-clone-patch-blah is a mess, all versions throw tons of errors and create coasters.  No combination of -J, -r, -T, -R, -joilet-long, -udf will make mkisofs happy:

mkisofs: Error: "rpi4/perl" and "rpi1/perl" have the same Rock Ridge name "perl".
mkisofs: Error: rpi1/perl and rpi4/perl have the same Joliet name

NeroLinux keeps SEGV'ing when trying to build an ISO filesystem on the fly, but I think it works fine for audio layouts and burning images.  But seriously, I shouldn't be having this many problems.  Maybe my drive just sucks.  Of course, that doesn't explain the mkisofs problems ...

Also, please donate to a hurricane Katrina relief fund.  Three or four clickc on Amazon.com lets you donate to the Red Cross.

Finally did it.  I blew away my last real Windows box.  The funny thing is, Windows XP in VMware on my Gentoo/amd64 system runs faster than Windows XP natively on my Athlon XP box.  Not surprising, actually.  taco.prolixium.com now runs OpenBSD 3.8.

So, how is one supposed to burn DVDs on Linux w/out ide-scsi?  The version of dvdrecord I have seems to want to only use the SCSI bus :(  I'm probably missing something.  Right now it's time for sleep, though.

Finally got my IPv6 fixed.  Apparently Freenet6 has gone through some changes recently, and Hexago has taken over their tunnel broker service.  They had just what I was looking for ... /48 allocation, non-6bone address space, reverse DNS, and a <50ms RTT.  Took me a couple hours to change over my network to the new address space, but it's all done.  You should be able to access Prolixium.com again via IPv6.

Oh, and mattress deliveries suck when the delivery guys don't bother to call, even when they can't find the place three times.  Whatever.

So, I broke down recently and picked up a portable audio player.  I ended up going with an iAudio X5.  Plays all the audio formats I care about, mp3, ogg, flac, has a radio and voice recording, plus 20GiB of storage.  Also plays XviD movies, which I find a little strange, but nifty.  I can't say I've watched anything on it yet, though.  Audio quality is quite good, I just wish the UI was a little better.  Now I can listen to tunes when taking brisk walks around the neighborhood and down the road.

Finally did some upgrades on my laptop today.  Upgraded to linux-2.6.12-gentoo-r9 without any problems.  Also finally upgraded the Cisco VPN client software, and now it doesn't disconnect me after 30 seconds.  Horray.

I finally heard back from Hurricane Electric about /48 IPv6 allocations:

Currently, the tunnel broker only assigns /64s.  The functionality to
assign more /64s and/or a /48 will be in the next version, although I
don't have a timeframe for when that will be released.

In the meantime, you are more than welcome to get another tunnel and
another /64.  It will require that you create another account however.

Regards,                                        
Mike

Oh well.  Pssst Road Runner ... feel free to carve out a /48 from your /32.  I'd pay for it.  Well, not too much.

Had a nice steak for dinner this evening.  It was good.  Maybe I should be cooking more often ...

Fun times.  Couple friends from NJ came down to Charlotte this weekend.  We had a pretty good time, since the weather held up.  Went to some malls, roamed around uptown Charlotte, and went to Carowinds and got assimilated by the Borg.  I took some photos.

I still haven't heard back from either of the two IPv6 tunnel providers I've sent emails to, begging for a /48 allocation.  Lamers ...

After replacing the HP MIO card (with an extra I had lying around) in my HP LaserJet 5, I realized cups/gs was actually at fault:

D [...] Ghostscript 815.00: Error: Font Renderer Plugin ( FreeType ) return code = -1
[...]
D [...] [Job 699] ESP Ghostscript 815.00: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
E [13/Aug/2005:18:53:41 -0400] PID 3142 stopped with status 1!
E [13/Aug/2005:18:53:41 -0400] [Job 699] No pages found!

Boo.  Some upgrade must have broken something.

On another note, does anyone know how to get Mutt to negotiate correctly with the IMAP (non-SSL) service on Microsoft Exchange?  Specifically, version 5.0.2195.6713.  It'll challenge me for authentication, then just hang.

... after posting, I realized that there was already a bug filed against gs-esp.

Does anyone know of a tunnel broker that hands out non-6bone 48-bit prefixes?  Lemmie know.  I need my IPv6 connectivity back, and I haven't heard from BTexact yet :(

All IPv6 access to *.prolixium.com is temporarily dead.  The IP on my box in NJ changed for the first time in three years, and I figured I would take the opportunity to move my BTexact tunnel to my colo'ed box.

Anyway, I'm going to have to renumber everything, since 2001:618:4e4::/48 was tied directly to my old IP.  Too bad it seems that they've suspended handing out of /48's.  Rubbish.  I sent them an email begging ...

In other news, the GTLD servers update wicked fast, now.  I changed a glue record via Joker and {a-m}.gtld-servers.net were updated within 30 minutes.  Nice.