Sunday, my family had its deferred Thanksgiving dinner.
Continue reading post "#3168"Toby's Log page 28
I have determined that one cannot link a prepaid and postpaid T-Mobile account to have one login ID.
Continue reading post "#3163"Automatically deal with conf changes using unattended-upgrades
For Ubuntu servers, I use the unattended-upgrades package to automate keeping the system and packages up to date. I recently noticed some of Cogneato’s servers showing packages needing to be updated for multiple days. When I looked in unattended-upgrades.log (in folder /var/log/unattended-upgrades/), I found the message “WARNING Package something has conffile prompt and needs to be upgraded manually”. Basically, there was a change to a configuration file and it didn’t know how to handle it.
I figured out why the T-Mobile Home Internet router has SMS in its web interface: I had to retrieve an auth code through it to set up my web account.
Continue reading post "#3157"Yay Browns for a great half of a game that was fun to watch, and for pulling off the win in spite of a pretty bad second half.
Continue reading post "#3155"I’ve got home internet again
After three and a half years tethering for my home internet, I’ve given in and switched to “real” home internet: T-mobile Home Internet. Yes, it is cellular just like tethering, but it should allow for a lot more monthly transfer and may have bigger and better antennas and different handling at the tower. I finally gave in because the cost made sense and I feel it will give me more freedom and ease of doing things that require data.
Continue reading post "I’ve got home internet again"I watched a MacGyver TV movie because I had the theme song in my head, only to find that they didn’t even use that theme song in the movie.
Continue reading post "#3145"A young man and woman presumably from an energy supplier knocked on my door today and spent like a half hour trying to switch my electric and gas supply to them. It didn’t end up happening.
Continue reading post "#3141"‘Twas the first heavier snow of the year.
Continue reading post "#3138"I may have fixed my jacket zipper with a heated nail.
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