She was a fickle mistress, hair spraying everywhere. Cold hands and hard eyes. She stared at me through the lens of foam and fuss. Pillars, all done up with ancient ideas and ‘stuck to’ ideas of how the world works and where we are all in part of it. She is powerful, dropping me to […]
I recently had a few CentOS machines that were migrated from XenServer to VMWare. There was a curious problem where the /dev/cdrom would not exist to be mounted when the VMWare tools image was mounted to the VM. When attempting to mount the CDROM’s usual location, I would get the error “mount: you must specify […]
Recently I had some legacy hardware applications that required a multicast heartbeat back to clients on the same wifi network. These were specialized tools from GM that technicians used to connect to vehicles for diagnostics back to GM. GM calls them the MDI (Multiple Diagnostic Interface). I had a problem using Ubiquiti Unifi controller […]
