Arc Solutions takes it personally...

I can't say I blame them.  I'm sure there are some very qualified programmers at Arc that are proud of their product.  My experience was less than stellar. So, here's what I'll offer.  It seems there might be a new version out.…

Arc Express comments

Bennie from Arc found my blog and wrote a couple of comments on this post.  I started writing a response but it got a bit lengthy for a comment so I decided to throw it into a new post: Bennie, thanks for responding.  That install was almost half a year…

Putty and CTRL-Shift-6, X

Helped someone figure out a weird problem just now.  He would telnet to a router and then telnet back out to a host.  He would then try the ctrl-shift-6, x sequence and he would get nothing on the screen.  He could type disconnect 1 and get no feedback but as…

Solarwinds might be ok

I can't point to a particular reason but for a long time I had been averse to Solarwinds.  I'm not sure if it was that I considered them expensive for what they did, difficult to install or some other obscure reason. Regardless, I've been…

PV149 and IRQ challenges

Ok, so that ZoneMinder install I was hoping to do in the last post...yeah....not happening. I've run into this before but I've decided it's just not worth the trouble of trying to fix it.  For some reason when you install the PV149…

Feels like I'm workign all the time...

I've been busy with work and haven't been able to squeeze in much of anything else.  I've done a couple of things like upgrading Unraid to my Pro key and swapping motherboards.  In the process I discovered that at least my copy (don'…

It's been a long couple of days

Comcast managed to hose up my internet connection which I host this site as well as some forums on.  They did this by assigning my static IP's to another location in their network.  The result was split routes at their peering routers with the majority of traffic going…