the year is 1993. a new show has just hit the airwaves and america has fallen in love with superman Lois and Clark – The New Adventures of Superman.

i don’t know what made me think of it, maybe it was the episode of desperate housewives i was watching, but i really want to see this show in its entirety again. i know that means that it will be a pretty big time commitment, but sometimes, you just have to make time for what’s important.

the problem is that i often look back on shows with much more fondness than i do when i revisit them. i hope that this show will not disappoint!

behold, the mighty tower of diet coke. i don’t know how long this will last, but it seems like quite the challenge. i left a couple of cases at work and i’m whittling away at those during the day time. the rest of these cases of diet coke are now sitting on two shelves in our pantry.

i love fog. i don’t know why, but every time i see it, i get flashbacks to my childhood when i would wake up early in the morning, see the fog, and dash outside to see if i can see across the street and see my friend’s house.

this morning the ride to work was fun driving through the thick fog. now, if there was some way to make it really foggy, but not so cold…

sometimes i think that knowing too much can only complicate your life. such is the case with my wireless network at home. we bought a roughly 10 year old house about a year ago and back then it was not standard practice to wire the house for ethernet. ten years from now, wiring the house for ethernet may fall out of fashion as wireless technologies improve, but in the meantime, wired networks are still by far the easiest way to get fast performance in your network.

+----------------+     +-------------------+      +--------------+
|  Speedstream   |_____| AirLink101 AR670W |   ___| Dell Desktop |
| 6520 DSL Modem |     | Wireless N Router |___\  |  EDIMAX PCI  |
+----------------+     +-------------------+      |  Wireless G  |
                         \               \        +--------------+
                         _\              _\
                        \               \
                         \               \
                   +-----------+   +------------+     +--------------------+
                   |  Linksys  |   |  Buffalo   |_____|   D-Link DGS-2208  |
                   | WRTSL54GS |   | WHR-HP-G54 |     | 8-Port 10/100/1000 |
                   |   dd-wrt  |   |   dd-wrt   |     |   Desktop Switch   |
                   +-----------+   +------------+     +--------------------+
                         |               |              |       |          \
                         |               |              |       |           \
                   +-----------+   +------------+       |       |           _\
                   | Microsoft |   |  Sony PS3  |       |       |          \
                   |   XBMC    |   +------------+       |       |           \
                   +-----------+                        |       |     +--------------+
                                   +---------------+    |       |     | Nintendo Wii |
                                   | Dell Latitude |----+       |     +--------------+
                                   |  D820 Laptop  |            |
                                   +---------------+     +----------------+
                                                         | D-Link DNS-323 |
                                                         | NAS w/ 1TB HDD |
                                                         +----------------+

Continue reading wireless network woes →

i was having some trouble copying a file over from the NAS. i telnet’d into the NAS and tried to copy the file over and i got an input/output error. clearly something was wrong with the disk…and then i remembered that there was a power failure last night and it could very well be that the disk got corrupted when that happened. the big question that was presented to me was how do you check the disk for errors when this happens?

surely d-link has created some tool in the webUI somewhere to fix disk errors, right? nope.

so what am i supposed to do? in linux, i’d reboot and fsck the partition…but how do i do that with the NAS? it turns out that there’s a port of fsck for DNS-323 which will reboot and let you mount the main paritions for fsck’ing. fantastic!

i’m fsck’ing the RAID volume now so hopefully that will fix up all of my problems.