#BLOCK_LIST=”badpeers.gz bogon.gz level1.gz”
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Since yesterday, I’ve noticed that bogon.gz was causing the problem. Now, let’s look at the only place that produces the “can’t convert ” error message:

src/list.cpp:

Notice that the sscanf() will read in a *full* ip address and convert it to hex. If any part of the ip address is invalid (like a letter) or missing (see the bogon snippet below), iplist will spit out the error message and die.

The last two lines of bogon.gz (/var/cache/iplist/bogon.gz) shows us an incomplete ip address:

Bogon:192.231.155.0-192.231.155.255
Bogon:192.231.188.0-192

Whether or not to forgo the bogon.gz is up to you but personally I would like an option in iplist to print a warning and skip over that bad ip entry. ]]> http://froebe.net/blog/2010/08/21/getting-ipblock-iplist-error-cant-convert-some-number-its-a-parsing-error-in-iplist/feed/ 0 http://froebe.net/blog/2010/08/09/for-those-of-you-looking-for-photos-for-the-susan-g-komen-3-day-60-miles-walk-httpwww-the3day-org-here-you-go/ http://froebe.net/blog/2010/08/09/for-those-of-you-looking-for-photos-for-the-susan-g-komen-3-day-60-miles-walk-httpwww-the3day-org-here-you-go/#comments Mon, 09 Aug 2010 22:34:50 +0000 Jason L Froebe http://froebe.net/blog/?p=1269 http://www.flickr.com/groups/3day_chicago_2010/

I am uploading 246 photos initially with more to follow.  Please add your photos or find your friends in the photos

Now your applications running in VMware Unity mode won’t jump all over the place! The option doesn’t appear to be needed for single monitor setups.

UEC is the Eucalyptus ‘cloud’ software running on Ubuntu servers. The instances would run under the KVM or Xen hypervisors. Ubuntu’s defaulted to running KVM but isn’t restricted by it.

“Eucalyptus is a software available under GPL that helps in creating and managing a private or even a publicly accessible cloud. It provides an EC2 compatible cloud computing platform and S3 compatible cloud storage platform…” Eucalyptus Beginner’s Guide

This is how a vm works in UEC:

You publish an image that you previously installed all the software you need (or you can download such an image). There can be as many instances of this image running as the hardware supports (spread across N number of backend Node Servers).

All instances are transient. As long as an image is running, it will have a physical presence.. but when it is shutdown, the instance is removed including any work performed in the instance.

“static” storage is available via a Storage Server. After you create an image but before you start it, you have the opportunity to attach storage to the instance.

Diagram courtesy of Eucalyptus Beginner’s Guide – UEC edition

While the management tools for UEC, and therefore Amazon EC2/EM, are primitive compared to VMware, it should be able to scale much higher with far less focus on which ‘virtual machine’ goes where.

I just created the Flickr photo group Greater Chicago Jewish Folks Art Festival so everyone can share their photos from the Greater Chicago Jewish Folks Art Festival:

Flickr: Greater Chicago Jewish Folks Art Festival

www.flickr.com

Flickr is almost certainly the best online photo management and sharing application in the world. Show off your favorite photos and videos to the world, securely and privately show content to your friends and family, or blog the photos and videos you take with a cameraphone.

World Science Festival 2009: Bobby McFerrin Demonstrates the Power of the Pentatonic Scale from World Science Festival on Vimeo.

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The problem is that Catalyst::Engine::HTTP::Restarter within Catalyst::Engine was replaced by Catalyst::Restarter within the Catalyst::Devel package. How to fix your application to use the updated development web server? Very easy. Rerun catalyst.pl with the “-scripts”, to rebuild just the scripts in the script directory, and “-force” to overwrite any files therein:

If you’re interested in learning the Catalyst Web Framework (Perl based), I highly recommend The Definitive Guide to Catalyst: Writing Extensible, Scalable and Maintainable Perl–Based Web Applications.

Sybase

Jeff Tallman replied to a question on how to avoid unnecessary reorgs. He graciously agreed to let me post his response here

You can avoid most (if not all) of the reorgs by doing:

1. setting the exp_row_size to something that covers about 90% of the space each row takes up
2. changing enable housekeeper GC to a 4 or 5

Both of these are a *MUST* do for DOL (datapages or datarows). See manuals on ‘enable housekeeper GC’ for correct setting of 4 or 5 (refers to whether deletes are batch or OLTP).

You can also watch for housekeeper overflows in monEngine/monOpenObjectActivity……and if you see any HKGC pending – wait a few before shutting down.

Jeff wrote up an excellent article, Locking Redux – APL vs. DOL and Tuning, that goes into detail why this is the case.

We basically just need to run “ALTER SYSTEM SET NLS_DATE_FORMAT=’YYYY-MM-DD’ SCOPE=SPFILE” as a user with sysdba privileges. If you started the Oracle instance without a spfile (it should be located at $ORACLE_HOME/dbs/spfile[instance name].ora), you will receive the ORA-32001 error.

Just create a new spfile, restart:

*restart*

*restart*

That’s it.

Now we need to get an updated license file from Sybase as the NIC mac address has changed..   You can *not* use the mac address from the VMware Server on ESX.  grr.

Twenty hours for the volume shadow copy to complete plus another 12 hours to scp the files to the esx box (esx console access is sloooow).   Keep in mind that the host VMware Server box was rebooting itself randomly so I really couldn’t leave it alone.  Then 3 hours to convert/clone the vmdk files and 2 hours to correct the database…  I’m tired.

It turned out to be an issue with allocating 3.75GB to a VM that was causing the rebooting.  Dropping it to 2 GB resolved the rebooting… who knew?  Nothing in Google and VMware Support wasn’t able to find anything on their side.

When I tried to uninstall Symantec Antivirus, it asked for a password.  When I put in the correct password, it refused it.  So how to uninstall it with a messed up password?  Easy..

Open up regedit (as an administrator) and change HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\INTEL\LANDesk\VirusProtect6\CurrentVersion\AdministratorOnly\Security\UseVPUninstallPassword to “0″ (zero).

I was able to uninstall and reinstall Symantec Antivirus.

Install ActiveState Perl from http://www.activestate.com (free) and install DBI if it isn’t already installed.  It should be but you never know…

1. Start -> ActiveState Perl -> Perl Package Manager
2. install DBI
3. exit

Now, the easy part.  Install the DBD::Sybase 1.09.01 PPM:

1. download DBD::Sybase 1.09.01 PPM
2. extract zip file to temporary directory (e.g. c:\test)
3. Start -> Run -> cmd.exe (as Administrator if Vista or Windows 7)
4. cd \test
5. ppm install DBD-Sybase.ppd
6. exit

That’s it

It should automatically install the DBD::Sybase for Perl 5.8 or 5.10 depending on which version of Active State Perl you have installed.

Tuesday, I took Jason to the oral surgeon’s to have all four of his wisdom teeth pulled. The surgery itself took about 45 minutes. It turned out there was a lot of infection back there, and as the doctor put it “it was messy”. The anesthesia made Jason really funny, and he took direction very well, which was nice for a bit.

However, the bleeding didn’t stop the way it should have. After a few hours of constant, continuous, copious bleeding, I called the doctor’s office again, and they had us go back in. They gave him two more stitches, and Jason finally clotted, after losing about 2 pints of blood.

We came home, and I got Jason to drink a bit of milkshake, and managed to keep him conscious until the fear of actually losing him passed.

He’s still incredibly weak and tired – mostly due to the blood loss.

- My wife’s account of it

The oral surgeon wasn’t aware of how much blood was lost, neither myself or my wife were in any condition to think clearly Tuesday. I should have received a transfusion.

Nearly a week later and even though my mouth is doing fine, I’m quite low on red blood cells. Made it into the office today (wife drove) and am leaving early because the room is spinning nearly nonstop and I’m fighting to stay conscious. Going to try to see a doc today/tomorrow … maybe I’ll get some blood. If not, give me a blinkin’ straw and I”ll do it myself… Who’s A Positive around here?