You get to keep both pieces.

[reddragdiva]

• Photo: dear internet: stop it. stop it now.

My laptop's Winders broke and the fix is "wipe and reinstall." So the Leengux partition is now Kubuntu 9.04 alpha 3. It hasn't gotten past that because it refuses to resolve DNS in apt. Or in Firefox — I'm writing this from Konqueror. Which, you know, isn't bad, it's just not Firefox. And takes its colours from the Obsidian theme I'm using. ping and nslookup resolve fine. Pinging the name before apt-get didn't work. Reboot and using Ethernet instead of wifi didn't work. Any ideas?

(What happy-ass Linux resolution rubbish is going on? I would guess it's some apps using one set of resolution libs and others using another. Someone here must have some idea what these would be.)

The Frankenbook is still alive and well. Not sure it burns CDs or DVDs properly. The hinges (whence the display cable, wifi and inverter) are getting unpleasantly warm.

Update: Actually, Konqueror is probably a good browser for someone but it's giving me the massive shits. If this keeps up I may be forced to resort to W*nd*ws.

Comments

cute snowman ;-)

[stilkil.livejournal.com]

I find it odd that wikipedia describes it as an 'internet meme'. Maybe for anyone born after 1995 *shrug*.
i was never 'tricked' into viewing it - again maybe if you were born after 1995......

It was a nice diversion back in the day to the 'stuff in my desk today' sites and 'dave's mum and dad' (which was *hilarious* and a personal favourite).

You might find this amusing, i always did.
On IRC, (where else), I used to get accused, on a regular basis, of being the Stile Project webmaster.

...weird but true....

Re: cute snowman ;-)

[reddragdiva]

I recently found out that lemonparty.org was hosted on wefixtech, which I didn't realise until I was accused of running it. o_0

[steer.livejournal.com]

You sure it is DNS? Have you perhaps set a proxy somewhere? System preferences?

What does tcpdump think is happening?

[xandraius.livejournal.com]

dhcpd.conf

You can haz looks at it nao?

[redcountess]

While the hinges get warm, the heat's not as bad as when the other hinges broke. I wish I could remember if they were this warm before they broke!

[heliumbreath.livejournal.com]

Some of the latest drool-compliant Linux boxes run avahi to do mDNS and stuff, and somehow get different DNS on the desktop than exists in the OS proper. I've only had to deal with that once, and taking it out and shooting it worked wonders. Beyond that, make sure FireFaux isn't set to use a proxy (Preferences / Advanced / Network / Connection). Sounds like your /etc/hosts, /etc/resolv.conf and /etc/nsswitch.conf are or should be intact, though the latter can get avahi-droppings; the hosts line should say "hosts: files dns".

[ajohnymous.livejournal.com]

Maybe a spanking new OS has IPv6 enabled by default (perhaps even with an auto Teredo tunnel or something.) Likewise, maybe apt-get and Firefox are defaulting to trying IPv6 resolution first and that's failing.

Check in ifconfig if you have an IPv6 address also. If so, test with ping6 in addition to just ping. In Firefox, you can disable IPv6 priority resolution in the about:config (by changing "network.dns.disableIPv6" to true).