Ambit Cable Modem Web Interface

Time Warner Cable provides Ambit cable modems to their cable internet subscribers. You can get to the web-based interface by loading up the URL http://192.168.100.1 on a computer connected to your home network. If that doesn’t work, you may need to view that URL from a computer with the IP address 192.168.100.20. The default username/password for the web interface is: root/root

Ambit Cable Modem

VMWare – FreeBSD 6 Guest Error “calcru: runtime went backwards from…”

When you install the VMware tools in a FreeBSD 6.0 guest OS in VMware Server Beta, you get the following error message in the console every few seconds:

calcru: runtime went backwards from 10542602 usec to 10542600 usec for pid 13924

FIX 1:

sysctl kern.timecounter.hardware=TSC

FIX 2: Add the following line to /boot/loader.conf

kern.hz=200

Apple XServe RAID Discontinued

It looks like Apple has decided to discontinue its XServe RAID product. When you go to the XServer storage page, there is no sign of the Apple branded XServe RAID product. All that is shown is a RAID hardware product manufactured by Promise Technology. The XServe RAID had a lot of faults so I guess Apple decided to stop trying to reinvent the wheel and let someone else with more experience handle the hardware.Promise RAID

I Hate RTFM

I regularly search the internet for solutions to problems and one of the things that really irritates me is people who give totally unhelpful and often times rude answers to people’s requests for help. Sure sometimes you come across a thread where someone asks a really “dumb” question but that doesn’t mean you should berate or insult the person by just saying something like RTFM (Read The Fu*king Manual) or some other totally unhelpful remark which doesn’t answer their question. The RTFM responses generally appear most often in the *NIX communities from what I have seen. If you don’t have anything nice to say then don’t say anything at all… an RTFM remark helps no one.

RTFM

And in case you were wondering… Here is a link to a web page which explains how to change the IP address in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (RHEL 5) which happens to be the same way to change the IP address in CentOS.