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Why oh why are there no release notes for the Netlibrary Media Center?  I currently deal with installing and maintaining this software on around 300 machines, and I find it frustrating that OCLC will just push out auto updates without any notice or explanation.  It would be nice to have prior notice of when new releases are going to come out so I can make sure I install and try out the new version.  It would also give me a chance to package and deploy the new version.  They don't mention the version when your downloading the software either, so finding out when they have a

I have been playing around with pfSense 2.0 Alpha for a couple months now and so far so good.

I'm watching the VP debate and Palin just said, "I've joined the team of mavericks".  I wonder if she is also a social loner.

 Try out the latest version of firefox, the memory management has greatly improved, and the interface changes are pretty slick.

• http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/

We are trying to start seeds this year for the first time.  We purchased a bunch of seeds last summer from Gardenocity seedlover.  I think we mainly wanted the herbs at that point, but we also bought a bunch of stuff to start this spring.

Terry Bradshaw did drop the F-Bomb on national TV during the Superbowl pre game show.  I heard it, my wife heard it, a bunch of random people on yahoo answers heard it.  But nothing from the media.... WTF!

I am participating in a training course called 23 things on a stick, which is being done by  the seven multitype multicounty library systems as part of the staff development the multitypes offer in their regions.  This is the first step of the program, creating a blog and adding a post.  I don't have avatars setup through my drupal ins

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I have had a problem with the alerts that smokeping­ sends out for the last year or so.  Ever since work purchase new cell phones that had less space to show text messages, every alert that smokeping has been sending has been split into 2 messages, which is really annoying when the main internet connection at work goes down, and 64 (128) notices get queued up to be delivered.

I have been having trouble with the HP download manager for the past couple days, it has been refusing to download firmware in internet mode. When I look at the traffic in Ethereal I see that it is first trying to grab files from http://192.6.165.40/embed/jetdirect/firmware which returns a 301 moved permanently response that points to http://ftp.hp.com/pub/networking/software/jetdirect/firmware/firmware.glf. The program then tries to download that file, and gets a 403 forbidden response. The program then freezes for a while and reports that it couldn't get the files. If you try to grab the file in a firefox via the first URL, http://192.6.165.40/embed/jetdirect/firmware it downloads. I wonder if HP is looking for a referral that it's software isn't giving, or what.

Wget also seems to work, so if you want to get it working you can follow these steps.

- This will download the firmware description file.
#wget http://192.6.165.40/embed/jetdirect/firmware

- this will grab all the URL's to the actual firmware and place them in firmware.url
#egrep -o "http.*" > firmware.url

- this will download all the urls in the firmware.url file
#wget -i firmware.url

The last step is to place the files in the hp download manger directory under upgrade\jetdirect.

### this is the ethereal dump from the hp download manager.

User-Agent: HP Download Manager V3.0 / 0050566700008
Pragma: No-Cache
HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2007 13:54:20 GMT
Server: Apache
Location: http://ftp.hp.com/pub/networking/software/jetdirect/firmware/firmware.glf
Cache-Control: max-age=7200
Expires: Thu, 02 Aug 2007 15:54:20 GMT
Connection: close

Content-Type: application/octet-stream
GET /pub/networking/software/jetdirect/firmware/firmware.glf HTTP/1.0
User-Agent: HP Download Manager V3.0 / 0050566700008
Pragma: No-Cache
HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden
Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2007 13:54:20 GMT
Server: Apache
Content-Length: 257
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1

403 Forbidden

Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /pub/networking/software/jetdirect/firmware/firmware.glf
on this server.