Archive for February, 2009

GMail down

Tuesday, February 24th, 2009

I was getting 503′s and now no response at all . Lack of a temporarily down page or something similar leads me to assume this wasn’t planned upgrade or anything.

Of course this can happen to the best of us, but still: ouch!!

Me needs my mail :-(

PS: maybe it’s got something to do with SSLStrip?

+1hrs: still no workies :-| fraaakkk

+105mins : it’s back, I suppose we’ll never know what happened :)

Enabling networking in CentOS 5.2 on my ASUS P6T Deluxe

Wednesday, February 18th, 2009

Update : below stopped working after upgrading the kernel to version 2.6.18-92.1.22. Trying to find out why :-|

Update2 : okay I was too fast probably, seems to be working fine after a reboot :-)

The 2 onboard Marvell 88E8056 PCI-E ethernet on my P6T Deluxe weren’t autodetected by CentOS 5.2.

Got this workaround from the CentOS bugtracker :

# modprobe sky2
# echo “11ab 4364″ > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/sky2/new_id

It works! :-)

There’s a warning of data corruption on Gigabyte boards with this workaround, so better check first and do some more looking if you’re in that category.

64bit java plugin out in the wild aka Sun Java 6u12 released!

Monday, February 2nd, 2009

Get it hot! :-) As I’ll probably be waiting for this release to hit the/some Gentoo/Ubuntu repo, I have to say I’m surprised at the seemingly short interval between the last update releases. Seems 11 was only last week somehow.

As my previous Athlon64 and current Intel i7 Core are both 64bit, I do have to say I’m anxious to try the long announced java plugin for 64bit platforms. I’ve been using icedtea 6 on gentoo for a while, but as I need a Sun JVM for professional stuff I’m glad this update has finally arrived. Curious to see if it lives up to it’s expectations.

Besides all that, the included improvements seem quite numerous (take a look at the release notes)