{"id":1264,"date":"2011-07-11T10:53:26","date_gmt":"2011-07-11T15:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/?p=1264"},"modified":"2011-07-12T08:03:22","modified_gmt":"2011-07-12T13:03:22","slug":"no-carrier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/2011\/no-carrier\/","title":{"rendered":"*%#$*@#(%&#8230; no carrier&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Digital Machine hive has moved, after massive disturbance to the nest.  To chronicle the story&#8230;<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>We moved about 5 minutes down the road to get some extra land so we had pasture for our horses.  We needed to move out and clean up before we could sell.  So I left the hive at the old place while I worked on getting the new place connected.  Such a simple plan&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Called Time Warner.  They have DOCSIS in my neighborhood, 30Mpbs\/1Mpbs, awesome.  While the idiotic over-lobbied Republican-led NC State legislature is busy passing a law hampering municipal broadband, I find out the Time Warner monopoly wants to charge me $3250 (no that&#8217;s not a typo) to run cable down the 700ft driveway.<\/li>\n<li>CenturyLink DSL is my fallback.  I&#8217;m promised 10Mbps\/1Mbps with a static IP for $3\/mo, awesome.  Then the installation troubles begin.  3 weeks later (no that&#8217;s not a typo), I have 8Mbps and $20\/mo for a static IP, and no alternative.<\/li>\n<li>About a week into waiting for CenturyLink, lightning strikes at the old house, killing the server motherboard right through the APC UPS.  I could have rebuilt the hive at the old house, but I assumed CenturyLink would provide a modicum of reasonable service, so I unplugged and dragged the nest to the new house.  That was a mistake&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>I stripped everything down to determine what was working and what wasn&#8217;t, using my desktop for spare parts.  Since I&#8217;m a cheapskate, I made the frugal yet risky decision to test the server power supply in the desktop machine.  BOOM, I then had two motherboards that wouldn&#8217;t post.  Whoops!<\/li>\n<li>When times get tough, the tough go shopping.  I bought some nice new mobo\/cpu\/mem combos from CompUSA (sorry Newegg but I had to get my hands on them that day).  Intel i5 quad-cores that run cooler and quieter than anything I&#8217;ve ever owned, nice.<\/li>\n<li>Rebuilding was a fun challenge, gentoo FTW.  The Digital Machine is configured as a router, web server for a dozen virtual hosts, email server, database server, and a million other things; I did NOT want to start over.  I booted up Ubuntu Live off a USB stick, used it to set up a gentoo stage 3 environment on a new drive, copied over the contents of the old drive to \/, and cross-compiled a 32bit kernel into \/boot.  I made a few other really simple tweaks in \/etc\/resolv.conf, \/etc\/fstab, \/etc\/postfix\/main.cf\/[relayhost] &#8211; and rebooted.  And it just worked.  Man I love the world of open source.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And away we go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Digital Machine hive has moved, after massive disturbance to the nest. 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