A week without remote access … (the blog is back!)

In case you hadn’t noticed (and if not, why not? šŸ˜‰ ), windracer.net was down for the past week. This was because my cable modem decided to lock up just hours after I left town for Christmas in north Florida with family. I called Spectrum (formerly Brighthouse Networks) from my in-laws’ house hoping they could …

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ActionTec ECB6200 MoCA adapters

I was doing a bit of a network re-org and realized that the old MoCA adapter that connects my home office to the network was only a 100mbps ethernet connection. Since everything else on my network is now gigabit (except for the occasional exception like my PiDP-8), I decided to upgrade toĀ ActionTec’s ECB6200 MoCA adapters. …

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Yelling at the Yakkety Yak (but it won’t talk back)

Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak) was released almost two months ago, but I only just realized I hadn’t upgraded yet (this happened to me during the last .10 release as well). This upgrade was a little smoother thanĀ last time, but not without its hiccups. The upgrade processĀ uses screen to keep everything running separately in a separate …

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