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Last post as a single hobo
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renting my woes away
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Modern Auto Errors
Here’s a situation where I want an error message and can’t get it. My ’96 Subaru Legacy’s “check engine” light has come on, and some googling suggested that I might be able to retrieve an error code that would tell what is wrong. After reading some instructions and making several trips out to peer under…
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AT&T drops the bytes
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The plot sickens
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The game begins
There five days to go until my wedding day. I will be doing several hundred miles of driving, including playing chauffeur for my guests. Late Saturday night, very visibly, and somehow ominously, the “check engine” light began to glow in my Subaru. So the planned things are starting to happen, and also the unplanned. I…
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Creepy Illusion
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buffer_jdirty (bh)
Assertion failure in journal_commit_transaction() at commit.c:535: “buffer_jdirty (bh)” Came in to find this message on our trusty dual-processor database server this morning. It’s on RedHat’s errata page, the first fix for 7.3, a problem with the Symmetric Multiprocessor Kernel. The annoying thing is that the kernel with just that fix is no longer available, they…
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Operation Failed
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Great Falls Basin