Turns out that for some reason, their DNS servers were making a query for the name of my nameservers as listed in the registrar database. When those failed, it dropped any caching of the address like a hot potato, thus resulting in very spotty name resolution. Using Google's DNS worked just fine, if a bit slower due to the lack of multi-hosting.
So basically, if the registrar has example.com's nameservers listed as foo.example.com = 10.1.1.1 and bar.example.com = 10.1.1.2, AT&T's DNS will query 10.1.1.1 to look for foo.example.com. If that DNS server lists itself as ns1.example.com, but does not resolve foo.example.com, AT&T's nameserver will think something is fishy and decide you don't exist at all.
This was a pain in the ass to figure out, but everything has been fine since I fixed that. I would still like to find a place where this behavior is documented, because I was only able to discover it by turning debug logging on for my nameserver. I also found out that someone in Germany had been using it as their primary DNS for who knows how long, so I shut off recursive searches from outside my LAN.
Very interesting. I think that explains why Minecraft can hose OS X so thoroughly. The current version of Minecraft can reliably crash the graphics on OS X 10.6 when you simply try to change the window size. (The official "workaround, won't fix" is to upgrade to OS X 10.9!)
That sounds rather farfetched. Terrorists blowing up a Malaysian plane traveling to China because the US and/or Israel are killing Iranian scientists? Seriously? In case you haven't heard, China has been having a bit of a terrorism problem of its own lately, which makes a lot more sense.
It's up to four or five now, which is certainly enough to hijack a plane. However, I have also heard that the pax with stolen passports were flying onward to Amsterdam, and supposedly drug smugglers like to go in packs, so it's also possible that these were just drug smugglers.
And good luck if you have to make a transfer, which you probably will. That half hour spacing means that if you miss your transfer (the one between the route near where I leave and the route near where I work means a hell of a run of half a block because they meet at cross streets, not a transit center), you're screwed for half an hour. At a previous job, when I had vehicle trouble, I had TWO transfers, which made for a nightmare trip. The only good thing about transfers on Cap Metro is their 24-hour bus passes at 2x the regular fare.
Outside Paint It Black, I could take or leave the Stones.
What's funny is that was the song that popped into my head when I thought about them (it's damn catchy)... and I didn't even know that song until a few years ago, from PBS running those "remember when" shows during pledge drives with bands playing on Sullivan, etc., and that one was in black-and-white. I'm definitely not younger than 30, so I'm going to guess that you have to be over 50 to be familiar with that one unless you've gone out of your way to hear their stuff.
To be fair, the '80s had its share of good stuff too. The Police, Phil Collins both Genesis and solo, David Bowie, Huey Lewis, Michael Jackson before he got too weird, and a load of one-hit-wonders. (And nobody can name any Starship songs from the '80s either, except the heavily overplayed and overrated We Built This City.) I've got an iTunes playlist called "'80s Radio", which I have been filling up as I acquire old used CDs to rip from. It's mostly stuff from 1975-1988 (with some earlier stuff too) that you would hear on the radio during the early to mid '80s.
But the '90s? Hardly anything interested me from then. Black Hole Sun, and maybe a couple of things from Nirvana and RHCP. Then I discovered music from Japan, where they were making stuff that still had a lot of the feel of western music from the '80s, and also some German dark wave industrial (Rammstein and Eisbrescher). But the only new music from US/UK that I'll buy these days is when Weird Al comes out with a new CD.
Oh, and I think you forgot to mention The Rolling Stones, man.
I doubt I'll ever go there, but the two places where I've seen the most about Shenzen (without trying to) and all its wonders from a techie point of view are Dangerous Prototypes and Bunnie Huang. I think it helps a bit that they are both (AFAIK) living over there right now.
How hard can it be to add "blocks RF at 5MHz and above" (or whatever) on the package?
Because they won't know what the specs will be on the next load of crappy Chinese-made chokes they get, and would have to wait to print new packages.
(I remember when they used to staple data sheets to the back of parts packages. I still have a FOUR PAGE data sheet that came with a 555 chip back in the late '70s!)
Shelf space costs something, too. At least their current "tool chest" drawers make it a lot more space efficient than back in the days when every resistor type had its own hang tag on the wall. (Gotta have room for all those cell phones and accessories, ya know.)
Malls? Seriously? Malls in general have been dying for years. There's one RS near me that I won't go to simply because it's in a mall that I never go to because it's in a direction I rarely go, on the other end of some annoying roads. And then you have to get out and walk across the big parking lot and down the long hallways, etc.
There used to be two of them relatively close to me. In their last un-expansion, they were going to close the one that was second closest to me. But a highway had been upgraded to a freeway by the other one, and they asked the landlord of the shopping center if their sign could be moved higher so you could actually see it from the new highway. Cheap-ass shopping center (which lost its anchor stores in the time since) said no. So RS closed both of them. The next distance tier from where I live includes one that's across the street from a Fry's.
Because those other places you talk about only have to keep their stock in ONE place, and don't have to get it to you the same day. And they don't have to keep them on hang cards, out front where customers or their little kids can shoplift them (sometimes just because they want to steal something, anything), or they could even fall down cracks behind the shelving.
When you need That Part on a Sunday afternoon, you're not going to get it from Digi-Key or Mouser. Like the time a few years ago when I found out that my mom's new 55" TV had four HDMI ports but only two analog inputs. The component naturally went to the DVD player. She also had a Wii (aka "what's digital video?") that also needed an analog input. The other analog input on the TV? It was a 1/8" 4-pin jack. Like on an old camcorder or iPod. Except this was on the back of an enormous TV set. Way to be cheap, Sharp.
If I wasn't a hundred miles away, I could have just gone home and dug into my caches of wires and stuff. Or even gone to the Fry's store near where I live. (And I do keep extra wires in a closet at her place. Just not something that obscure.) So I go out shopping. Best Buy didn't have it, and if you think you get blank stares from The Shack, BB is worse, and they want to sell you an extended warranty for those stares, too. I went to the RS on the other side of the highway and they had one. At $35 it wasn't cheap, but I got everything set up that day.
When we were young, Bernie's Deli was down the block
(Ooh ooh ooh ooh) He made a great liver pâté
(You know he did, you know he did, you know he did) But if there's one thing in this world that I like better
Than a corned beef on rye
It's Chicken Pot Pie
Chicken Pot Pie
(chorus of chicken-cluck imitations)
Keep your crummy appetizers
Don't want no turnip-flavored fries
Or mustard pizza squares
Sorry but they don't compare!
(chicken-clucks)
(instrumental)
He made a great tuna soufflé
(You know he did, you know he did, you know he did) But if this fast food-eating world in which we live in
Leaves you hungry and dry
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Wait a minute, how many lives could this have saved, exactly? Sounds to me like all it would do is say THE DEAD PEOPLE ARE RIGHT HERE.
Turns out that for some reason, their DNS servers were making a query for the name of my nameservers as listed in the registrar database. When those failed, it dropped any caching of the address like a hot potato, thus resulting in very spotty name resolution. Using Google's DNS worked just fine, if a bit slower due to the lack of multi-hosting.
So basically, if the registrar has example.com's nameservers listed as foo.example.com = 10.1.1.1 and bar.example.com = 10.1.1.2, AT&T's DNS will query 10.1.1.1 to look for foo.example.com. If that DNS server lists itself as ns1.example.com, but does not resolve foo.example.com, AT&T's nameserver will think something is fishy and decide you don't exist at all.
This was a pain in the ass to figure out, but everything has been fine since I fixed that. I would still like to find a place where this behavior is documented, because I was only able to discover it by turning debug logging on for my nameserver. I also found out that someone in Germany had been using it as their primary DNS for who knows how long, so I shut off recursive searches from outside my LAN.
Very interesting. I think that explains why Minecraft can hose OS X so thoroughly. The current version of Minecraft can reliably crash the graphics on OS X 10.6 when you simply try to change the window size. (The official "workaround, won't fix" is to upgrade to OS X 10.9!)
One of the people in charge of Fukishima died a few months later from cancer. He got it from smoking.
Japan has a lot of heavy smokers.
OMG BAN THE NUKES!
That sounds rather farfetched. Terrorists blowing up a Malaysian plane traveling to China because the US and/or Israel are killing Iranian scientists? Seriously? In case you haven't heard, China has been having a bit of a terrorism problem of its own lately, which makes a lot more sense.
It's up to four or five now, which is certainly enough to hijack a plane. However, I have also heard that the pax with stolen passports were flying onward to Amsterdam, and supposedly drug smugglers like to go in packs, so it's also possible that these were just drug smugglers.
And good luck if you have to make a transfer, which you probably will. That half hour spacing means that if you miss your transfer (the one between the route near where I leave and the route near where I work means a hell of a run of half a block because they meet at cross streets, not a transit center), you're screwed for half an hour. At a previous job, when I had vehicle trouble, I had TWO transfers, which made for a nightmare trip. The only good thing about transfers on Cap Metro is their 24-hour bus passes at 2x the regular fare.
Outside Paint It Black, I could take or leave the Stones.
What's funny is that was the song that popped into my head when I thought about them (it's damn catchy)... and I didn't even know that song until a few years ago, from PBS running those "remember when" shows during pledge drives with bands playing on Sullivan, etc., and that one was in black-and-white. I'm definitely not younger than 30, so I'm going to guess that you have to be over 50 to be familiar with that one unless you've gone out of your way to hear their stuff.
All memes were created over 9,000 hours ago.
FTFY
To be fair, the '80s had its share of good stuff too. The Police, Phil Collins both Genesis and solo, David Bowie, Huey Lewis, Michael Jackson before he got too weird, and a load of one-hit-wonders. (And nobody can name any Starship songs from the '80s either, except the heavily overplayed and overrated We Built This City.) I've got an iTunes playlist called "'80s Radio", which I have been filling up as I acquire old used CDs to rip from. It's mostly stuff from 1975-1988 (with some earlier stuff too) that you would hear on the radio during the early to mid '80s.
But the '90s? Hardly anything interested me from then. Black Hole Sun, and maybe a couple of things from Nirvana and RHCP. Then I discovered music from Japan, where they were making stuff that still had a lot of the feel of western music from the '80s, and also some German dark wave industrial (Rammstein and Eisbrescher). But the only new music from US/UK that I'll buy these days is when Weird Al comes out with a new CD.
Oh, and I think you forgot to mention The Rolling Stones, man.
I doubt I'll ever go there, but the two places where I've seen the most about Shenzen (without trying to) and all its wonders from a techie point of view are Dangerous Prototypes and Bunnie Huang. I think it helps a bit that they are both (AFAIK) living over there right now.
In the decade-old video game "Lock On: Modern Air Combat", Russia invades Crimea.
http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.c...
How hard can it be to add "blocks RF at 5MHz and above" (or whatever) on the package?
Because they won't know what the specs will be on the next load of crappy Chinese-made chokes they get, and would have to wait to print new packages.
(I remember when they used to staple data sheets to the back of parts packages. I still have a FOUR PAGE data sheet that came with a 555 chip back in the late '70s!)
Shelf space costs something, too. At least their current "tool chest" drawers make it a lot more space efficient than back in the days when every resistor type had its own hang tag on the wall. (Gotta have room for all those cell phones and accessories, ya know.)
Malls? Seriously? Malls in general have been dying for years. There's one RS near me that I won't go to simply because it's in a mall that I never go to because it's in a direction I rarely go, on the other end of some annoying roads. And then you have to get out and walk across the big parking lot and down the long hallways, etc.
they could have branched into home automation and other tech items that were not mainstream, but hobbies.
Yeah, but The Sharper Image went out of business, too.
There used to be two of them relatively close to me. In their last un-expansion, they were going to close the one that was second closest to me. But a highway had been upgraded to a freeway by the other one, and they asked the landlord of the shopping center if their sign could be moved higher so you could actually see it from the new highway. Cheap-ass shopping center (which lost its anchor stores in the time since) said no. So RS closed both of them. The next distance tier from where I live includes one that's across the street from a Fry's.
Because those other places you talk about only have to keep their stock in ONE place, and don't have to get it to you the same day. And they don't have to keep them on hang cards, out front where customers or their little kids can shoplift them (sometimes just because they want to steal something, anything), or they could even fall down cracks behind the shelving.
When you need That Part on a Sunday afternoon, you're not going to get it from Digi-Key or Mouser. Like the time a few years ago when I found out that my mom's new 55" TV had four HDMI ports but only two analog inputs. The component naturally went to the DVD player. She also had a Wii (aka "what's digital video?") that also needed an analog input. The other analog input on the TV? It was a 1/8" 4-pin jack. Like on an old camcorder or iPod. Except this was on the back of an enormous TV set. Way to be cheap, Sharp.
If I wasn't a hundred miles away, I could have just gone home and dug into my caches of wires and stuff. Or even gone to the Fry's store near where I live. (And I do keep extra wires in a closet at her place. Just not something that obscure.) So I go out shopping. Best Buy didn't have it, and if you think you get blank stares from The Shack, BB is worse, and they want to sell you an extended warranty for those stares, too. I went to the RS on the other side of the highway and they had one. At $35 it wasn't cheap, but I got everything set up that day.
Also, no wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame.
When we were young, Bernie's Deli was down the block
(Ooh ooh ooh ooh)
He made a great liver pâté
(You know he did, you know he did, you know he did)
But if there's one thing in this world that I like better
Than a corned beef on rye
It's Chicken Pot Pie
Chicken Pot Pie
(chorus of chicken-cluck imitations)
Keep your crummy appetizers
Don't want no turnip-flavored fries
Or mustard pizza squares
Sorry but they don't compare!
(chicken-clucks)
(instrumental)
He made a great tuna soufflé
(You know he did, you know he did, you know he did)
But if this fast food-eating world in which we live in
Leaves you hungry and dry
There's Chicken Pot Pie
Chicken Pot Pie
(chicken-clucks, fade out)
Reading some threads about it yesterday, I found that some hams in Germany have priority access to a 20m dish. Woah.
It is also not a 'jet' fighter. Props to the submitter for not including that mistake from TFA.
So, "poopsort"?
A quart is a quarter of a gallon, not a quarter of a pint. Now pint off, you tablespooner.
Later, when crew mates removed his helmet, they found that it contained at least 1.5 quarts of water.
Or at least 1.5 liters of water, if you're Canadian.