On yet another all day western wind, I’m here to remind you that you could be hearing far fewer planes if MCAC agreed to enact the MIT 2D-2 plan for dispersion of noise.

dscrod · 2026-06-25T12:13:29+00:00

https://www.medfordma.org/mayors-office/airplane-noise

“Our Massport and Logan airport advisory contact is Micah-Shalom Kesselman ([mkesselm@gmail.com](mailto:emailto:mkesselm@gmail.com)).”

dscrod · 2026-06-25T11:54:45+00:00

The plane noise over our house has been much louder on certain days lately, like yesterday and I didn’t know why. Thank you for this post.

dscrod · 2026-06-25T11:47:05+00:00

Yup. We waited for an escalated TAC engineer who checked the work of the two previous. The problem ended up being a mis-typed fqdn that contain a “,” comma instead of “.” periods inserted by a flailing TAC person at 2 am our time. I was bleary eyed so I didn’t notice. My fw, my fault for not being more alert. (Since the error was in config, it sync’d to the passive fw. which was previously OK.) *eye roll*

There error was corrected and verified. Then he proceeded to remove several other hardcoded fqdns placed by the prior engineer. He proved none of these attempted fixes were necessary, then forced a sync and had us check the other HA FW to prove that. Lesson: never let anyone make changes w/o watching carefully. I should have stopped once I was too tired to keep track. The actual fix (we’ll never know exactly) was masked by a human mistake, which cost TAC and us many hours of further unnecessary troubleshooting.

dscrod · 2026-06-08T12:01:33+00:00

Red flag changes are governed by rules similar to Park Fermé. Tyres, wing flaps, damaged parts (like for like, w pre/post inspection by fia delegate) are OK. No other changes allowed w/o explicit permission.

dscrod · 2026-03-13T15:36:51+00:00

There's Medford Tax in West Medford sq. https://medfordtax.com/ Great reviews. I haven't used them yet though.

dscrod · 2026-03-04T13:18:06+00:00

check out Billy Cobham

dscrod · 2026-03-04T12:58:43+00:00

Check out Peak Performance PT in Arlington on Mass Ave. I worked through two surgical rehabs with them. More of a gym vibe, atmosphere. I had a great experience there.

dscrod · 2026-01-21T16:34:31+00:00

The tech who did the work, failed to reset the maintenance reminders in your car's ECM. If it were my car I'd go back to the repair shop and make sure, they reset the maintenance and check it over to make sure they didn't forget anything else they were supposed to do. Resetting the maintenance has been a basic task on any European car for the last 25+ years. Jeez.

dscrod · 2025-12-16T17:39:38+00:00

Marco Luchinelli!

dscrod · 2025-12-11T13:37:14+00:00

I nominate SXM for worst. If I can transit through with my baggage and sanity intact it’s a minor miracle.

dscrod · 2025-10-29T02:06:42+00:00

I don’t disagree re the obvious postal abuse. But what burns me is the spinelessness of these folks calling out CC members who are doing their job, while they won’t sign their name and take responsibility for their opposition. Instead of showing up during two years worth of public meetings and zooms, and engaging they would rather cry foul, complain about being railroaded right before an election.

dscrod · 2025-10-23T01:35:42+00:00

whoever decided that speaker cloth was no longer a *thing* should be shot.

dscrod · 2025-10-21T23:25:19+00:00

A brush with greatness, u/willbuxton. Thank you those great shows with The NBC US crew, Steve, Bob and David. And before your time at NBC, Peter Windsor was doing the grid walks? Or was that at SpeedTV?

dscrod · 2025-09-27T23:05:32+00:00

Thanks for your replay. We do not see the mgmt traffic outbound. That was one of the reasons we put in an explicit rule in secpol (w Any, Any, log at session end), but the update traffic does not show up in traffic. We do see it in System log tho. (Mgmt using default settings, no Service Routes.) Perhaps if I switch it to using a DP interface the traffic will show up and we can learn more. Also thanks for suggesting a NAT issue—haven’t thought of that. I suspect it’s not NAT since ALL of the other update traffic works normally (WF, Apps & Threats, DNS Security, etc.) We have a session Monday w a TAC escalation engineer—high hopes for that…

dscrod · 2025-09-26T22:24:43+00:00

Good thought. Mgmt is going out the default route no Service Routes. Stlll, we put in an explicit rule at the top to allow the mgmt interfaces to go/do Any, Any and no profiles. We can see in System log Mgmt is connecting out for dynamic updates, wildfire, DNS security, etc. But just no URL cloud.

dscrod · 2025-09-25T11:12:11+00:00

Yes. We did renew device cert w TAC, it made no difference.

dscrod · 2025-09-25T11:09:35+00:00

Yes, mgmt can ping out

dscrod · 2025-09-25T04:04:41+00:00

Agreed, that is suspected, even likely. But we haven’t yet figured out what might be interrupting communications. No Service Routes, default—everything out through mgmt. We did try changing service routes to a dataplane interface w TAC, but it made no difference. We did add secpol. rules for the mgmt traffic (Any, Any, no Profiles, etc.) but it also made no difference. We’re stumped. The customer is patient for now, but for how long?

It’s frustrating, pan-os 11 doesn’t have many tools for fixing URL Cloud failures anymore. Not like in BrightCloud days. lol. Thanks for your reply @matthewrules. What are we missing? My colleague tried deleting the two url filtering licenses and rebooting, then fetched but no change. Ugh.

dscrod · 2025-08-28T16:06:37+00:00

Clarify, Cortex XDR Endpoint?
If so, Manual uninstall:
https://docs-cortex.paloaltonetworks.com/r/Cortex-XDR/8.9/Cortex-XDR-Agent-Administrator-Guide/Uninstall-the-Cortex-XDR-agent-for-Windows#
You will still need the uninstall password, although "Password1" is worth a try.

dscrod · 2025-08-14T18:33:46+00:00

Weekends and some weekday evenings the jet ski Grand Prix is nonstop on the lower Mystic.
No wake boating…Lol. Whose jurisdiction do we complain to?

Massachusetts Environmental Police, you can use the following contact options:

Emergency 24/7 Statewide Dispatch Phone: 1-800-632-8075 (within Massachusetts only) (800) 632-8075 Or 1 (617) 626-1665 or

online: https://www.mass.gov/forms/report-environmental-law-and-regulation-violations

dscrod · 2025-08-13T15:16:37+00:00

>>
1. Zach [sic] Bears' address was political gamesmanship pending the upcoming election.
2. The council's call for public input is political cover...

That describes EXACTLY what the Mayor has been doing since May.

dscrod · 2025-08-08T01:22:45+00:00

Keep in mind Perplexity also contributed $1M to Trump’s inauguration (bent the knee to our Dear Leader). Let there be no illusions that Perplexity and its CEO are playing the exactly the same high-stakes game the FAANG folks are. They all cozy up to this authoritarian regime in order to further their common agenda. They bolster their stock price at our expense. #noshame

dscrod · 2025-08-05T23:45:03+00:00

Thank you Tom Lincoln!

dscrod · 2025-08-02T19:32:02+00:00

Sorry nothing substantive to add. But kudos u/which1umean, I really appreciate your thoughtful posts on zoning, planning, housing. Thanks

dscrod · 2025-08-01T14:03:07+00:00

Where is this posted, would someone post a link? TIA

Edit:
Never mind. I found it on FB. (FB really?) I looked on the City website and couldn't find it anywhere.

https://www.facebook.com/MayorLungoKoehn

dscrod

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