Errors

On Thursday night I used my Nexus 4 as GPS (as I always do – it’s my main navigation device, so Google, please bring back a usable navigation app pretty plx!) to drive from Brussels to Antwerp (~40 minutes).

I had about 60% of battery left when I turned on the GPS. I tend to recharge my battery every night. It’s times like these I usually just use the GPS without using the car charger. I don’t mind my phone being at 10 or 20% when I arrive home, late at night, as it will be charged overnight anyway.

[ 0.184110] pci 0000:04:04.0: [10ec:8139] type 0 class 0x000200
[ 3.822258] 8139cp: 8139cp: 10/100 PCI Ethernet driver v1.3 (Mar 22, 2004)
[ 3.822281] 8139cp 0000:04:04.0: This (id 10ec:8139 rev 10) is not an 8139C+ compatible chip, use 8139too
[ 3.822574] 8139too: 8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.28
[ 3.822625] 8139too 0000:04:04.0: Chip not responding, ignoring board
[ 3.822675] 8139too: probe of 0000:04:04.0 failed with error -5

On a Debian machine.

The solution was changing PCI slot , blowing away all the dust in the mobo PCI slot and on the pins of the PCI card, and gently inserting and removing it a couple of times.

5 or so days ago, this error suddenly popped up:

Unable to complete backup. An error occurred while creating the backup folder.

I have a Raspberry Pi, acting as TimeMachine (using afp/Bonjour/Netatalk).

There are several things I tried to solve this, including messing in the sparebundle from Linux (chowning) and deleting my TM .plist. This probably messed up my backup a bit.

But what seemed to ‘solve’ it for me was:

I suddenly noticed issues with Postfix not accepting e-mails that are tagged (“user+TAG@fqdn”) anymore. Even though it always had.

Postfix main.cfg:

recipient_delimiter = +

Log snippet:

Apr 16 13:07:52 vm-dns-mail postfix/pipe[6119]: 55D1C2005E4: to=<user+test@rootspirit.com>, 
relay=maildrop, delay=0.06, delays=0.01/0/0/0.05, dsn=5.1.1, status=bounced 
(user unknown. Command output: Invalid user specified. )

Tried to find what’s wrong in MySQL, change the delimiter, Debug Maildrop, etc. Not much progress… :( And after 6 hours I was starting to get annoyed.

Seems to have a modem in it. After about 5 minutes it managed to get an IP, which was partly masked (number changed to “xxx”).

Picture taking on 23 July 2012 at 02h55 (local time).

For no clear reason, OpenVPN on Mac with Tunnelblick (any version, had this problem for a few years already) results in these kind of error messages (and refuses to connect):

2013-02-05 17:44:31 write UDPv4: Can't assign requested address (code=49)
2013-02-05 17:44:33 write UDPv4: Can't assign requested address (code=49)

This seems to appear more often when swapping WiFi/IP range (after my Mac goes into sleep). But also happens when connecting to the same WiFi. It doesn’t change anything whether I disconnect OpenVPN before putting the Mac to sleep.

Due to continuous Access errors, I decided to reinstall Office Professional 2010 (64 bit).

As I couldn’t find the original CD key I installed it with, I used another one from another installation. So far so good, installation went fine, etc.

Once I started any Office app, it popped up this error: “Microsoft Office professional plus 2010 cannot verify the license. blablabla useless crap check control panel”

I’ve tried:

• Reenter CD key (via setup)
• Repair Office
• Install every single item I could select during the install
• Remove office + reinstall office
• Removed CD key with this
• Reboot over a zillion times
• Cursed

None of this worked.

However, this seems to fix it for me:

In case, like me, you suddenly can’t make any outgoing phone calls, or send any text messages, and your data connection is cut off.

And yes, this includes calling the Proximus helpdesk (6000)… ps: WELL DONE PROXIMUS. NICE.

The message I heard when trying to make an outgoing phone call as along the lines of “You currently cannot make any outgoing calls. Click 1 for additional details.” 1 “Due to technical issues we cannot help you any further” disconnected…

The Eurostar.com (cached copy) sitemap links to an odd directory: eurostar.com/bestkeptsecret (which was part of a viral campaign in 2006, Google tells me), which in turn redirects to a spam site… :(

 

Visiting that links redirect to a spammy website about real estate… Please clean up your shit -.-)

HTTP headers when getting eurostar.com/bestkeptsecret:

HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Content-Length: 245
Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2012 22:14:39 GMT
Server: Apache
Location: https://web.archive.org/web/20190118192808/http://www.europesbestkeptsecret.com/
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
<html><head>
<title>301 Moved Permanently</title>
</head><body>
<h1>Moved Permanently</h1>
<p>The document has moved <a href="http://www.europesbestkeptsecret.com/">here</a>.</p>
</body></html>