I might write about my thoughts on the eight hours — not six, as was claimed — of “Get Back” on Disney+, but first here’s a Beatles challenge. I was able to correctly identify the album grooves in #1 and #5.
This is the BBC programme that was the inspiration for Andrew’s challenge. What about a “guess the CD” challenge? 😉
Lessee, my last post was way back on October 15. Here’s Tom Hanks playing DJ for Halloween.
And here Tom’s Thanksgiving Edition.
Want to listen on headphones? For ten bucks you can’t go wrong with these. No Bluetooth, no noise cancelling, just excellent sound. I’m listening with them right now. (No, I don’t make any money from Amazon!)
What a freaking nightmare today. Of my own making, I admit. I should have just walked away, but noooooooooooo…
After numerous failed attempts, I decided to take a once-and-for-all stab at fixing this site. Whether or not it’s completely working again, at least I did not die this day, and WordPress is finally running the current version. The Google Search Console is no longer complaining about the domain, which gives me a reason to not discontinue the blog.
Steve and Leo chat on Security Now about Monday’s Facebook outage.
Facebook Engineering’s statement.
This statement is telling, in where they feel the emphasis needs to be placed, on phones rather than PC’s. And shouldn’t it be “our” app?
“That’s where the information needed by your app gets retrieved and processed, and sent back over the network to your phone.”
Facebook’s collection of services is unavailable. Because the outage is being reported as worldwide, it’s undoubtedly a Domain Name Services issue. For the moment, a name server somewhere is responding with an IP address in Australia.
C:\WINDOWS\system32>tracert facebook.com
Tracing route to facebook.com [157.240.8.35] over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 1 ms <1 ms <1 ms Fios_Quantum_Gateway.fios-router.home [192.168.1.1]
2 4 ms 6 ms 8 ms edge-star-mini-shv-01-syd2.facebook.com [157.240.8.35]
Trace complete.
Maybe this is a valid name server entry, and maybe it’s not. Let’s check.
C:\WINDOWS\system32>nslookup -type=soa facebook.com
Server: Fios_Quantum_Gateway.fios-router.home
Address: 192.168.1.1
DNS request timed out.
timeout was 2 seconds.
*** Request to Fios_Quantum_Gateway.fios-router.home timed-out
Uh, oh. Can’t get an authoritative name server. The stopover in Sydney is unscheduled. Let’s make one final check.
C:\WINDOWS\system32>nslookup -type=ptr facebook.com
Server: Fios_Quantum_Gateway.fios-router.home
Address: 192.168.1.1
*** Fios_Quantum_Gateway.fios-router.home can't find facebook.com: Server failed
Oh, yeah. Zuck is stuck near Auck. I’ll share this on Facebook. Oh, uh, wait. Never mind.
For comparison, this is how the results should appear:
C:\WINDOWS\system32>nslookup -type=ptr dograt.com
Server: Fios_Quantum_Gateway.fios-router.home
Address: 192.168.1.1
dograt.com
primary name server = ns1.bluehost.com
responsible mail addr = root.box2395.bluehost.com
serial = 2021091401
refresh = 86400 (1 day)
retry = 7200 (2 hours)
expire = 3600000 (41 days 16 hours)
default TTL = 300 (5 mins)
Something for record playing loyalists to think about. Why spend more than $40?
“The Shure is an RXP3 body from Radio Shack, with a new, original Shure stylus. The AT85EP is new. The level of the turntable was checked with an Audio-Technica AT605.
Both the Shure and A-T cartridges play side 2, track 8 of the Hi-Fi News Test LP cleanly, without buzzing. The M92E is louder, at 5.0 mV vs. 3.5 mV. My Ortofon Super OM 20, mounted in a Thorens TD166-MKII, fails the same test.
The M92E is discontinued, but the AT85EP is widely available for only $40. Audio-Technica sells a $10 universal adapter for mounting in a standard tonearm.”
