Matthew Gyurgyik

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Over the last few weeks I have noticed a lot of replies in the archlinux forums that have nothing to with a given topic.

Take something like this post: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=65023

The OP is having problems getting eth0 to get an ip via dhcp on startup, however the op states that manually running dhcpcd eth0 works without a problem. So I type out a reply, submit it, and I wait for the op’s response. In the meantime someone posts saying:

Are you getting ab IP, but just not connecting to the internet? If so, comment out the following 2 lines in rc.conf:

gateway=”default gw 192.168.0.1″
ROUTES=(!gateway)

The ROUTES=(!gateway) prevents the gateway from being set. Commenting out those two lines aren’t going to do anything! Nothing I tell you, well at least to fix the problem at hand!

and then you get this post:

My guess is that you have to remove the ! from the front of gateway in ROUTES=(!gateway)

That’s what I used to have to do on my old desktop.

Also, be sure that 192.168.0.1 is actually your gateway. If you don’t know you run dhcpcd then run route.

If you have even the most basic concept of networking, you would know that dhcp would pull in the default gw and all the other information such as dns servers. Regardless, this has nothing to do the op’s problem because the op stated that running dhcpcd manually works! Thus you can infer that the correct gateway is being set with dhcp.

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This delay really ticks me off. I am not so fortunate to have cable or satellite like most of you. In general I am against the switch over because I had to spend over $50 with the coupons to buy 3 converter boxes for the TVs I had in the house. And so far $40 on better antennas. However, this is besides the point.

They have been telling people for over a year that they would need converters boxes. I’ve heard people say it was delayed because there weren’t enough coupons! Why are we running out of coupons now?!?! If there weren’t enough coupon we should have ran out months ago. Then I would understand this delay a little bit more. Instead we ran out a few weeks ago!

Now I’m stuck, I have only one roof antenna and sadly the signal is not strong enough to be split. This means that my other two televisions have to use Indoor Antennas. These two tvs get only 3 channels: 5, 8, and 43. 8 is the only channel that comes in without being choppy, 5 and 43 usually comes in decently, but there are some skips in the video. I live in the city, not to far from the broadcasting towers.

I was hoping for the switch over to see better digital reception. Now those hopes are gone. The government forces us to switch to a crapper service and then they delay the switch! I love dtv when it actually comes in, it’s 100x better, but if you below a certain threshold, it absolutely impossible to watch that channel!

I can’t switch between analog and dtv because I have other people in the house and it would confuse the hell out of them!

Alright, I didn’t go anywhere, but I have been extremely busy these last few weeks! I’ve been working on Red Hat and Psychology. I had a Psych test the other day and I got a 48/50 (96%) on the test! I am not quite sure how I managed to do that! I have my next test at the end of the month, so give it a week I’ll be studying once again for that!

There hasn’t been much going on lately, just trying to get by, finish up with school. I’m sick of tired of all the totally pointless and irrelevant classes I need be in such as Creative Foods II and Business in the 21st Century. Though I got like what, 3 months till I’m free?!