Posted by Dave Minor
Tue, 12 Sep 2006 21:44:00 GMT
I installed SBC DSL today and it was infuriatingly harder than it should have been. Several phone calls to tech support ended with them telling me that they could solve my problem, but I’d have to pay for that level of support—$69. I’m not going to pay that much out to some script reader who knows half as much about computers as I do. I just want his script.
Now I have it. and so do you. I was able to figure out the settings after some mildly helpful google searching. Kudos go to my brother Scott who admittedly knows less about technical issues than I do, but was able to help in the googling and the nudging in the right direction. Sometimes even a geek needs some brainstorming to point them in the right direction. on to the details:
BTW, if you stumbled here via a search engine and these settings helped you, please let me know that we “stuck it to the man!”
First, I set up the Speedstream 4100 to my MacBook Pro’s wired ethernet port and ran the installer. It connected to the net just fine. When I then plugged the modem into my Airport Extreme Base Station, it wouldn’t connect. Also, a note on the bottom of the SS 4100 says Advanced Confifuration on http://192.168.0.1/. I couldn’t connect to that address either.
The AE has as it’s default setting to use 192.168.0.1 as it’s LAN IP and use 192.168.0.2 through 191.168.0.200 for DHCP addresses. While still connected to the SS 4100 via ethernet, I turned off my Airport Card so that it would look on the ethernet card for 192.168.0.1 instead of over wifi. Tada! Now I could point my browser at 192.168.0.1 and got the SS 4100 configuration page. Using the access code on the bottom of the modem, I was able to access the Admin -> Connection Configuration page.
Following instructions found here on the topic, I changed the questions “Let LAN device share Internet address?” to No from the default Yes. This forces the modem to hand out LAN side IP addresses via DHCP which I believe the AE needs.
Next, I hooked the AE into the modem and turned my Airport Card back on on the MBP. Using the AirPort Admin Utility, I connected to the AE and told it to use DHCP for Internet. The major problem I was having was that the modem was holding 192.168.0.1 for it’s use, but the AE was also holding 192.168.0.1 as it’s LAN IP. IP conflict! Under the Network tab, I told AirPort client computers to “Share a single IP address” and changed the private Class C to 10.0.1.x. I’m fairly certain that after changing to this C, you can go back to “Share a range of IP addresses”, but I haven’t yet.
After updating the AE, everything started working properly. I’ll need to do some updating of machines and IPs on my LAN to take on the new IP scheme, but that won’t be too hard. I’m fairly positive that I could have left the AE to 192.168.0.x and changed the SS 4100 to use a different IP for admin, but I chose not to muck with the modem any more than I had to. and secretly, I had been wanting to change over to 10.0.x.x anyway.
Please let me know if this information is useful to you. How hard would it be for Yahoo to put out something to this effect??
Posted in Hardware, Mac OS X | Tags airport, apple, configuration, dsl, extreme, sbc, speedstream | 5 comments
Posted by Dave Minor
Wed, 06 Sep 2006 11:29:26 GMT
While I’m nowhere close to being as qualified as Sun’s Tim Bray, I tend to agree with his summary
Even with all these little irritations, Ruby might win, big-time;
ya think?
Posted in Ruby | no comments
Posted by Dave Minor
Mon, 28 Aug 2006 15:53:00 GMT
Tim Bray says:
I don’t know about you, but in recent weeks I’ve been hit with high volumes of spam promoting penny stocks. They are elaborately crafted and go through my spam defenses like a hot knife through butter.
I feel your pain Tim. I, too, have been hammered with spam in recent weeks. I actually spent a good part of the day Friday tweaking my spam settings to try to pick up more. I think I did some good. For most of Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, very few messages made it to my mail client. Then this morning, there were a dozen or so. :(
Posted in Server, Mac OS X | no comments
Posted by Dave Minor
Thu, 24 Aug 2006 03:06:12 GMT
I’m not sure why it took me this long to find a fix for this problem. Lazy I guess. Since I got my Macbook Pro, I have had problems with some apps (flash and quicktime specifically) being silent. I could see video, but no audio.
I finallyl googled it tonight and found the solution. So here it is for anyone who comes across it:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=300832
Posted in Mac OS X | no comments
Posted by Dave Minor
Tue, 08 Aug 2006 18:59:00 GMT
Dear LazyWeb,
The new trend in blogs is to have relative timestamps like “posted about 3 hours ago.” It’s cute—whatever.
I just noticed while working on a Typo theme that when you view the source, the real timestamp is plugged in! How do it know??
I assume there is some javascript code doing the cutsy stamp after the page loads, but I don’t see any calls for that to happen.
I think it’s cool and I want to know the details behind it, but I’m too behind to go looking right now. If noone enlightens me, maybe this will remind me to come back and dig into the code later.
UPDATE: ok, I found the call to show_dates_as_local_time() which I assume takes care of that.
Posted in Ruby on Rails, Software, Programming | no comments
Posted by Dave Minor
Mon, 07 Aug 2006 21:38:00 GMT
Over the weekend, I ran Monolingual 1.3.3 to remove some unused pieces of my MacBook Pro system to free up a little disk space.
Things started going badly. Like installing system upgrades (Security Update 2006-004) would fail and some applications like Quicken would not launch.
About the time I started doing an archive and reinstall, I remembered running Monolingual. I pulled up their site and sure enough in their FAQ, it mentions not deleting the PowerPC architecture stuff on an intel box. Great!
The good news is that I’m thinking that after the archive and install, I’ll be in pretty good shape with just a few applications needing to be copied from the backup (my SuperDuper! backup was of course hosed too).
My hope in blogging this is that someone will either NOT remove the PowerPC architecture stuff on their intel mac or help them in fixing the problem afterwards. This is a lot less dismal than reinstalling each application by hand due to a “master level directory structure corruption” which is what Apple diagnosed it as.
It all could be fixed if they would just let us choose which languages we wanted to install from the beginning.
Posted in Software, Mac OS X | 2 comments
Posted by Dave Minor
Wed, 05 Jul 2006 17:19:00 GMT
Here’s a pic of the new plane. I spent some hours Monday and Tuesday and again tonight hanging around while they do the annual on it. It’s amazing to see everything pulled out and see how things work.
The plane is passing with flying colors. Compressions are very high. It is obvious that the plane has been very well taken care of. I can’t wait to fly it!
Posted in Flying | 2 comments
Posted by Dave Minor
Fri, 30 Jun 2006 16:31:00 GMT
I’m taking care of my grandmother’s bird while she’s away this weekend. I changed his paper out this morning and completely coincedentally, the picture on the front page was of the new Miss Arkansas or something. It ended up facing up.
From the looks of things now, Bird feels the same as I do about pagents. I can’t wait to see how he continues to comment on it today.
Posted in Misc | 1 comment
Posted by Dave Minor
Fri, 30 Jun 2006 15:35:00 GMT
Whew! sorry it’s been a while. Things have just been insanely busy recently. and I don’t see anything letting up for a while.
Here’s some major things I want to note that have been taking up my excess time:
got a new macbookpro It of course Rocks! :) The conversion to it went pretty smoothly. I didn’t let the wizard transfer everything over because I hadn’t had a “clean” install since the pre-release of OSX I think.
went to RailsConf2006 It of course Rocked! :)
I’m not sure that I can share anything enlightening about RailsConf that others haven’t posted yet, but I loved getting to meet people that I had only talked to online. and meet new folks that I will now continue to talk with.
Especially enjoyed getting to meet in person Jason Perkins who I’ve know online for several years. “You Da Man!” for helping me out with a room when my original plans fell through!
The last news is late breaking. I finalized a deal this morning to purchase a 1977 Cessna 172 180hp conversion. I’ll get some pictures of the actual bird next week and post them. I’m pretty pumped. I’ve been looking at several airplanes and this one just completely Felt Right to me. There were pros and cons to all of them, but my gut feeling was very different with this plane. Which is weird since I’ve really been a pro-piper guy. Anyway, I can’t wait to start flying it.
Posted in Ruby on Rails, Flying, Hardware | no comments
Posted by Dave Minor
Mon, 17 Apr 2006 21:44:22 GMT
Just some great shots of some very handsome boys!
Both the older boys can make the baby smile and giggle. It seems like all 3 of them are born to make the others laugh. I pray that continues!
Kyle isn’t sitting by himself yet, but with a little support, he does pretty well. He thought these flowers were really cool and just wanted to grip them as tightly as he could!
Good buddies.
Posted in Family | 1 comment
