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I’m running through our deployment of Riverbed Cascade at the moment and was checking traffic to an external host, noticed that it had gotten a hit from researchscan010.eecs.umich.edu on port 80. I figured it couldn’t hurt to see if it was responding (having research in the name) and it did!

Cute

I got authorized on the weekend, having some test bouts against Niall and Liadan, the crown prince and princess (and my good friends). It was an honour to fight them, and get clubbed like a baby harp seal.

Now I just have to learn to let the armour take the hit instead of my flesh

Driving to work this morning I tried to set my phone to make noise, since it’s on silent when I sleep. I unlocked it, pressed the volume up button, and it stayed stuck on silent. I could drag the volume slider up, but it’d instantly flip back to silent again.

Tapping the little speaker icon to set it to vibrate worked, which was odd. I thought the button was broken/stuck on, but it wasn’t showing the volume setting all the time, so.. meh?

It seems that this thread on fixya was the key. If you turn off fast boot it seems to clear whatever’s messed up in the phone’s settings.

Steps for fixing it:

1. Open the settings menu
2. Select the “power” option
3. Un-tick the fast boot option
4. Restart the phone and all should be well

“Of course I won’t laugh ,” said the Nurse to the patient , “I’m a professional. In over twenty years I’ve never laughed at a patient.”

“Okay then,” said Bob, and he proceeded to drop his trousers, revealing the smallest adult male organ the Nurse had ever seen in her life.

In length and width it was almost identical to a AAA battery.

Unable to control herself, the Nurse tried to stop a giggle, but it just came out.

And then she started laughing at the fact that she was laughing. Feeling very badly that she had laughed at the man’s private part, she composed herself as well as she could.

“I am so sorry,” she said, ”I don’t know what came over me. On my honour as a Nurse and a lady, I promise that it won’t happen again. Now, tell me , what seems to be the problem?”

“It’s swollen, ” Bob replied.

She ran out of the room.

It seems that if you’re running a host that’s running ESX 5.0, there’s a bug with FreeBSD VM’s which causes the internal timer to just freeze. It’s fixed by a patch released for ESX version 5.0, or upgrading to 5.1.

This came up with a FreeBSD 8.3 guest running our Statseeker instance where the time just up and locked, then refused to go forward. A reboot would fix it, then it would lock up again at some arbitrary point in the future.

The fix from Statseeker was to disable NTP and we’re on a “hope for the best” plan at the moment until we can get the host upgraded to 5.1 or the patch applied.