Wiki unlocked

There's been no comment spam activity on the GT Wiki for a week, so I'm unlocking it. I disabled the comment system since I don't think anyone actually wants to use it anyway.

I still may look into some other wiki systems, I don't really like PHPWiki, but it's OK for now.

Anyway, since it's unlocked, anyone can just log in with any WikiWord, suggested is FirstnameLastname, and no password, then commence 'ta editing.

http://www.hauntedfrog.com/wiki/index.php/GeneralTechnics

Bleh, power flicker => PITA

We had a short power outage this morning, and it turns out that internet service down all day (I don't usually get online before I leave in the morning so I didn't know until I got home).

First I unplugged and replugged everything, and when the cable modem didn't come up for 3 minutes, I called Charter. That turned out to be a red herring though, the modem did eventually come up but I spent about 25 minutes debugging nothing first.

When I got into it, I could talk to the router just fine, everything looked OK except the routing was fubar'd - no default route to the internet. I couldn't do anything about this because it looked like eth0 was down. If I plugged a laptop straight into the cable modem, it worked OK, but the router wouldn't talk to the modem, even though I had a link.

I reflashed Tomato, hoping that would work. Nope. Then I plugged the laptop in, downloaded the factory firmware, flashed that in and rebooted. No luck. Then I just unplugged everything and let it sit for 5 minutes - that appears to have done the trick. The router came back up fine. I flashed Tomato back in again and that's working too.

Now I have to re-setup all the various crap, port forwarding, etc that I had set up (no, I didn't back up the settings, darn it). Shouldn't take a whole long time, except for finding the MAC addresses of all the Nintendo DS boxes, the two iPod touches, etc. and getting them into the wireless allow filter.