Strange Things

Peter Cooper Jr.

December 03, 2004 (Last Modified: December 03, 2004)

A couple things I find somewhat amusing:

I write a detailed list of my future plans and get no commentary or feedback (which is fine), but then I write about the weather and generate a significant, interesting discussion.
I finally upgraded to FreeBSD 5.3 last night (after compiling it earlier this week). When my system came back up, I was getting pings between my box and my cable modem (which are directly connected with a cable) of greater than 50 seconds. I think that it would have been even longer if I kept on trying the pinging. I was getting “watchdog timeout” errors on my console too. Apparently, there was some sort of device conflict or something with my network card. (I added hint.acpi.0.disabled="1" to the end of my /boot/device.hints to fix it, in case anyone else is having similar problems.)