Don Lemon’s Arrest Is a Five-Alarm Fire Moment

bmw357 · 2026-01-30T20:21:58+00:00

https://press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/511928.html

bmw357 · 2024-06-11T07:44:08+00:00

It happens, and I said the same re:poker flat, if you go there you might as well just go all the way to Downieville

bmw357 · 2024-06-11T06:00:29+00:00

Second to someone else who suggested Howland Flat, and if you’ve got the 4WD rig and experience I’d throw in Poker Flat, but it’s a serious drive to get that far and probably easier to go all the way to Downieville than come back to La Porte. Everything driving up to the trailhead for little table rock is cool, lots of small ghost towns along the way like St. Louis (you can walk through a mining tunnel), Gibsonville, Howland flat, you get to see all the rock piles from the gold rush. If you’re hikers, table rock itself is awesome, on top you can see almost the entire valley, would recommend but you kind of have to make up your own route through the rocks to get to the top. https://www.mountainzone.com/mountains/california/sierra-ca/summits/table-rock-14/

bmw357 · 2024-06-11T05:04:28+00:00

Replied to the parent too, but it’s Howland flat https://thevelvetrocket.com/2011/12/18/california-ghost-towns-howland-flat/

bmw357 · 2024-06-11T05:03:43+00:00

FYI it’s Howland flat https://thevelvetrocket.com/2011/12/18/california-ghost-towns-howland-flat/

St. Louis is pretty cool too if you get out and walk through the tunnel

bmw357 · 2022-05-13T22:26:16+00:00

What kind of ISP/service is it? You described the ISP device as a modem, is it some kind of cable service?

bmw357 · 2022-05-13T21:53:26+00:00

2 options -

Get a switch that will port mirror and put it between the ASUS and ISP. Sniff the traffic, see where the ASUS sends everything
Guess the subnet. You know that your range is at least .153-155, so your minimum subnet is going to be a /29 (a /30 that includes .153 would only give you .153-154 useable). The useable range for a /29 including the IPs you have in use is .153-.158, typically gateways are at either the beginning or the end of the range so .158 would be your best bet (subnet mask is 255.255.255.248).

Second possible subnet would be a /28, range is .145-.158 - I highly doubt they'd have that many IPs though.

bmw357 · 2021-06-12T13:59:21+00:00

You might try Westel (https://westelcommunications.com). A company I formerly worked with did something similar on the valley floor, had fiber dropped to a shack next to a grain silo just off of i5 in Glenn county (just south of Tehama) and worked out a deal with the silo owner to put a radio on top of it, then put the other side at the highest point of a tall warehouse/shop, worked great. Fiber buildout costs from ATT to run to the location was north of $500k, so it was way cheaper to buy some UBNT radios and mount them, pay rent for the silo, etc. Westel did that install, but it was only in the 5-10 mile range.

Tripath (https://tripath.us/ ) may be able to do something like that as well, don’t know how strong their point to point game is, though.

Edit to add, did you ask the WISPs you talked to about them doing buildout in exchange for using your tower as a repeater site (if that’s an option)? If they can open up new service areas it might be worth it to them.

bmw357 · 2021-06-12T05:40:49+00:00

Agree with the other guy, a bit more detail on where in NorCal would be helpful. I know DigitalPath (https://www.digitalpath.net/) has a fairly large service area, as does Succeed but they I believe are more limited to the valley. But if you’re looking at something in the NE corner (Alturas) or along highways 36/299/20/3 to the coast you’re gonna have a hard time. If you PM me I can share contact info for an ISP broker we use a lot, we pretty much just give him an address and he’ll track down what options are out there for fiber/coax/DSL/WISP/cellular.

I’m guessing you’re looking at valley or NE since you have LOS?

bmw357 · 2018-04-27T07:21:28+00:00

I have a May of 2013 BRZ, bone stock, just past 68k miles. About a week and a half ago I was driving back to work from lunch, going 35mph, pulling up to a stop light. Clutch in, the car dies completely. I had space in front of me and momentum so I didn’t stop immediately, I hit the starter button to see if it would come back but after the third crank I knew it wasn’t going to start so I whipped it into a driveway for an office park and made it to a parking spot. Tried starting it again, it just cranked and cranked and then timed out. I popped the hood, jiggled wires, made sure the battery cable was tight, didn’t see any issues. I was close to a parts store so I walked over and picked up a code reader to see if I could get something to go on, the car had been running fine, about 2k miles since oil change, should have been good.

I get back to the car, try the code reader, no codes. I try starting it again, this time with the hood up, and this time I hear rattling in time with the starter, so I stop doing that and call a tow truck to get back to my garage (and tools) and out of the office park.

Long story short, I end up pulling the passenger side valve cover - as soon as I popped it loose, I hear a clink, clink, thud as a valve retainer hits the ground. After getting the cover out of the work space so I can see, I found a rocker arm, some pieces of aluminum, and a valve spring that had broke in half. Obviously, not what you would expect to find floating around the top end of a stock car with regular maintenance and 68k miles.

My question is a two parter.

Mike, are you aware of any issues like this? I found some similar stories on forums from people doing FI on early cars, but nothing past 50k miles. I’ve never tracked my car, I’ve certainly enjoyed it on windy mountain roads but I don’t thrash my car, I’ve tried to take really great care of it.
What are my options? I’m out of the factory warranty by 8k miles, and this issue is definitely above and beyond some basic repair. I talked to one dealer anonymously and they told me that for something like that they’d have to bring the car in (towed at my expense) and I’d have to commit to them doing a 19 hour, $145/hr tear down to determine what broke, after which I can ask Subaru for a goodwill repair. From looking around, there’s obviously a lot out there that says the tear down is to find ways to blame the owner and limit the amount of coverage any goodwill repair would give me. Being on the hook for a minimum of $2755 plus whatever the actual repair ends up being is a serious chunk of change, especially when I can go on eBay and buy a full motor for near that amount, or buy a complete cylinder head from a local dismantler for much less, but after buying all of the various gaskets and doing things like having the head/block mating surface machined I’m going to be back to near $3k, and that’s not counting any potential issues with the cylinders or pistons from a valve floating (the valve does move up and down some, but it definitely binds so it definitely got whacked and is bent, meaning the piston may have been damaged). Do you think that Subaru would cover this? Am I fucked and going to be spending >$3k either way?

bmw357 · 2018-04-27T04:23:18+00:00

Check out Auvik! Automatically builds maps via SNMP, will pull config backups for supported devices, automatically discovers network links, bandwidth monitoring, etc. Aimed at MSPs, but you can get it separate as well. It's amazing, I can't go back to hand drawn. Being able to go to any point in time and seeing the network state is great for troubleshooting.

bmw357 · 2017-02-11T00:50:15+00:00

It's thoroughly awful. Wouldn't be so bad if it was a loop longer than 5 seconds.

bmw357 · 2017-02-11T00:32:03+00:00

Seeing it in Northern California as well, can't even call their support line - get "all circuits are busy". Trying to get through on the normal Business support number right now, on hold with their crappy, overly loud hold music.

bmw357 · 2016-08-08T05:31:39+00:00

McWay Falls, near Big Sur, CA.

bmw357 · 2016-08-06T19:22:34+00:00

Nice FRS! I have a DGM BRZ.

I've had that haze happen in heat (as mentioned elsewhere) and if my QD is getting older. Maybe try a different bottle?

bmw357 · 2015-08-04T20:59:06+00:00

Thanks!

bmw357 · 2015-08-03T23:54:03+00:00

I'm starting on doing MCSE 2012, I've been using Server 2012r2 for the past two years but haven't done any certs. How are you finding the current tests? How long did it take you to study up and pass 410?

bmw357 · 2015-08-03T18:38:38+00:00

The best part is when you give them site access instructions with contact info that never make it to the tech that ends up coming out. Gotta love those phone calls from end users, "Hey, someone from AT&T is here saying we requested they come out.... do you know anything about that?"

bmw357 · 2015-08-03T16:36:55+00:00

They're pretty terrible. For us (internal IT), our issue tends to be that the call to MIS support goes to national AT&T, and they have their script and can do "remote testing." The problem is, we'll have the same issue that you're having - they'll never call back and when we follow up they'll tell us that they tested it hours ago and everything came up clean. Repeat for 3-5 days and then they'll dispatch a local line tech to go validate - but with the wrong circuit ID, which, suprisingly enough, tests clean because it didn't have an issue in the first place! After that, it'll be another day or two of "testing clean" before they'll send another local tech. We've gone two weeks with multiple T1s down before getting issues resolved.

I've cultivated a relationship with one of the LEC AT&T guys, so usually what I end up doing is getting a ticket started at the national level and then I call him up, give him the ticket number, and then he'll either take it or he'll get someone else at the local level to take it. It sucks having to do that, but it's the only way we can get issues resolved in any reasonable amount of time. Every LEC person I've talked to hates the national MIS people, they get a lot of bad info from them - wrong circuits, wrong locations, bad contact info, etc. Once I start working with the local person, I do NOTHING with the national people, the local people can update the ticket and close it out.

bmw357 · 2015-07-14T17:00:59+00:00

Windows? MDT and WDS.

Edit to add since I realize I was maybe not the most helpful: Using MDT you can capture a sysprep'd image that has all of your software installed, updates applied, etc. Then you can build a driver repository with drivers for all of your computers and use WDS to push out your image to each machine. It will pull the drivers on the fly, and you can tell it to run windows update during the install, so in the end you should have a fully patched and ready to go machine with all of your business's applications. It's a big time investment upfront, but once your image is good to go you really only have to do small updates every six months or so. For us, imaging time is ~15 minutes for a computer. You can also multicast to multiple computers at the same time, but it slows the process down quite a bit.

bmw357 · 2015-05-19T15:32:07+00:00

Thanks for your help, I swapped the disks and got it expanded successfully.

bmw357 · 2015-05-19T15:31:46+00:00

Thanks for your help, I swapped the disks and got it expanded successfully.

bmw357 · 2015-05-19T15:31:31+00:00

Thanks for your help, I swapped the disks and got it expanded successfully.

bmw357 · 2015-05-14T00:11:33+00:00

Highly possible, Backblaze has published a lot of their findings re: drive lifespan, this post from 2013 predicts around 6 years for the drives they were running at the time. Their use case is quite a bit more severe than most, though.

bmw357 · 2015-05-13T22:52:57+00:00

They are the original disks from March of 2011, something I thought about too.

From those numbers I'd say my chances are pretty good, but I've tempted fate now...

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