Posted by: DungeonMaster in wifi
Two nights in a row we have inexplicably lost the wireless network for 45 minutes or so. No amount of fiddling with channels (the usual solution) brings it back. There are usually six or so networks that are visibile in the neighborhood at any given time. None of the other networks are visible when the outage is happening. The outage affects all of the computers that have wireless networking running on different OSes (Win7, OSX, and Ubuntu).
Is it sunspots at night?
Does someone have gear that is swamping the electromagnetic spectrum in the area? For 45 minutes+ minutes?
Tags: wifi
AVG has come out with a new free toolbar.
AVG - Yahoo
I was surprised to note that when I installed AVG on the new Win-64 system that the toolbar was present in Internet Explorer any way. I thought, initially, that it was some quirk of the installer on a 64-bit system to ignore the flag. However, closer inspection of the dialog revealed my mistake.
This particular dialog contains two check boxes. One is below the image in the usual place and one is above the image. The one below (and the one I clicked to clear without looking at the rest of the dialog) controls whether or not Yahoo! is installed as the default search provider. I don’t want programs changing my IE search provider either.
Sneaky, very sneaky.
Tags: web browser
I went to visit the web site for one of my favorite bands (Judas Priest) tonight, and found that my favorite browser, Google’s Chrome, was a bit confused. It helpfully offered to translate the web site.
Chrome Offers To Translate
The only problem with the offer to help is that the web site isn’t actually in German.
Actual Web Site
Tags: humor, web browser
We had a power outage today that, naturally, took all of the computer systems down. The outage by itself was a bit unusual as the power kept going down and then coming back on. This repeated every few minutes for the better part of 45 minutes.
When the outage was over a Linux laptop that runs Nagios wouldn’t come back on the network. Well, it would come back on the network well enough to get a DHCP address from the router. But that was it. It couldn’t see anything. It couldn’t even ping the router once the IP address was assigned. It didn’t really come back until I #$%&ed around with the network settings for a while. I’m not even really sure what I did to get it back.
The whole even vis-a-vis the Linux laptop doesn’t make any sense. It really should have come back fine considering that I shut it down during the first cycle of the power outage. That laptop doesn’t have much in the way of a battery and it doesn’t make much sense to have it wasting power on wireless trying to get to systems it will never be able to reach during the power outage. The system has been shutdown before and it has always recovered just fine.
I remain baffled.
Tags: linux, nagios, power outage
