Scaffold in Chinatown, Pt 4

Maybe David Copperfield is going to make it disappear.

Sculpture Garden Fountain

In the background is the National Gallery rotundra and Washington Monument.

US Capitol

From the window of the commuter bus... Which I got to ride for free. Yesterday's driver forgot his hole punch, and used a pen to mark out the ticket. Today's driver punched over yesterday's mark.

Scaffold in Chinatown, Pt 3

This is getting exciting. Turns out the crew is working at night. About 8pm they close down H St. How truly civilized.

Xen error: xc_dom_find_loader

One of my Xen virtualization platforms crashed yesterday, throwing the error:

Error: (2, 'Invalid kernel', 'xc_dom_find_loader: no loader found\n')

Had the hardest time figuring out the cause.

Then, for whatever reason, I did a df -h and found my the /var/lib/xen mount was at 100%. I wiped out the contents of the save subdir, and moved all the boot_ files to /tmp. Suddenly, all my VMs could start.

Scaffold in Chinatown, Pt 2

They've added another layer of scaffold, but haven't actually done anything. It must be the same crew that has about half of all the subway escalators offline... you never actually see them working.

Pennsylvania Avenue

At the Nation Archives, looking south east toward the Capitol.

Scaffold in Chinatown

Looks like somebody is going to work on the Chinatown arch. I'll have to keep an eye on this.

Running Firefox Across an SSH Connection

I've always been annoyed by the Firefox "feature" of executing locally, even if initiated remotely. Consider this situation: You are running Firefox on your Linux workstation, and SSH into a server. On the server's command line, you launch Firefox. Rather than opening a new window which is X-tunneled back through SSH, it opens a new tab on the local Firefox. Argh!

Here's the solution:

[bungerd@lnxqa20 ~]$ MOZ_NO_REMOTE=1 firefox
[bungerd@lnxqa20 ~]$ firefox -no-remote

Either works, but the second seems more intuitive.

The Library of Congress

It was a nice day. I looked like a nice picture.