The Thurman Cafe
183 Thurman Ave
Columbus, OH 43206
http://www.thethurmancafe.com/
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Summary: Best burgers in Columbus. Come hungry but be prepared to wait at peak times.
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Back from Put-In-Bay
Published September 22nd, 2008 in Camping, Geocaching, Life and Photography. 0 Comments We spent the weekend at Put-In-Bay for the annual Pie Irons and Smores event. Other than the ferry trip backwards across to the island everything about the trip was pretty much perfect. We had great weather, food, and company. Keepeer finished the 5k a full 10 minutes faster than her previous best.
We also got to watch a couple geocachers tackle Starve Island in kayaks from the top of Perry’s Monument. The next day we flew kites under the monument and took a tour of the crystal cave.
Clicking on the picture of the monument will take you to my album of pictures from the weekend.
Automatically Updating Zoneedit Dynamic DNS without additional software
Published September 16th, 2008 in Linux. 0 CommentsIf you are using the ISC DHCP client and dynamic DNS this script can help you update your DDNS entry without the need for any additional software. I use this on a ClarkConnect server to update Zoneedit but with some minor changes it will easily work for other distros and services.
Basically you just create or edit the /etc/dhclient-exit-hooks file to look like the following:
#!/bin/sh
######################################################################
## $Id: sample-etc_dhclient-exit-hooks 8 2006-06-14 19:51:39Z wimpunk $
######################################################################
# The /etc/dhclient-enter-hooks script is run by the ISC DHCP client's standard
# update script whenever dhclient obtains or renews an address.
echo "$new_routers" > /var/lib/dhcp/dhclient-$interface.routers
PATH=/usr/sbin:${PATH}
case "$new_ip_address" in
10.*) ;;
172.1[6-9].* | 172.2[0-9].* | 172.3[0-1].*) ;;
192.168.*) ;;
*)
logger -t dhclient IP address changed to $new_ip_address
wget -O - --http-user=YourAcctName --http-passwd=YourPassword 'http://dynamic.zoneedit.com/auth/dynamic.html?host=nameofdomain.com' >/dev/null 2>&1
;;
esac
Replace the obvious bits with your information. If you use a different service you just need to figure out what changes you need to make to the wget line for your specific service.
Now whenever the server gets an IP address the dynamic DNS entry will be automatically updated. No extra software and no spamming the service with timed updates.
There probably aren’t many people out there who know what Minitab is to start with. I’m sure there are far less that have ever had to configure a FlexLM License server for it. I ran into some issues setting one up over the past couple days and since I couldn’t find any information to help me out I figure I’ll post the problem and the solution to maybe save someone else a few hours.
The initial problem that usually seen is that the clients cannot connect to the license server and return an error message of -97-121 You’ll also see the following in the minitab.dl file on your license server:
(lmgrd) FLEXnet Licensing (v11.4.0.0 build 31341) / started on this_host (IBM PC) (3/13/2008) (lmgrd) License file(s): C:\FlexLM\Minitab\minitab.lic (lmgrd) Starting vendor daemons ... (lmgrd) Started minitab (pid 1912) (minitab) FLEXnet Licensing version v11.4.0.0 build 31341 (minitab) EXITING DUE TO SIGNAL 32 (lmgrd) minitab exited with status 32 / (Exited because another server was running) (lmgrd) MULTIPLE "minitab" license server systems running. (lmgrd) Using Task Manager, stop minitab and run lmreread (lmgrd) (lmgrd) This error probably results from: (lmgrd) 1. Another copy of the license server manager / <pre><span style="font-size: xx-small;"> (lmgrd) is running. (lmgrd) 2. Another copy of the vendor daemon is running. (lmgrd) 3. The locking mechanism(s) were removed by an (lmgrd) outside program.</span></pre>
Of all the things that can go wrong with FlexLM this has to be one of the trickiest to figure out. After working with Tech support one of the techs brought up that installing to C:\FlexLM\Minitab\ can cause issues due to some legacy code they forgot to remove in the version they were shipping.
So after hours of work trying all sorts of strange FlexLM tricks the solution was to simply rename the folder to anything else besides C:\FlexLM\Minitab\ and use LMTools to update the paths the service is using.