December 28, 2002
Quiet Pipes and Cable Down
- Quiet Pipes
- When I changed the rubber washing machine hoses for a pair of the wire mesh "non exploding" type, water hammer noise became a real problem. I affixed the incoming water pipes to the wall but that didn't help much. Yesterday while I was buying a bathroom sink I found "shock absorbers" for pipes. They were a cinch to install as they came with male and female hose threads. I did our usual three loads of towels and couldn't tell when the rinse cycle was on. The solenoid valves open and close several times during this cycle and used to generate lots of water hammer bangs. Now all is quiet.
- Cable Down
- Couldn't check my email this morning: the sync light on my cable modem was flashing. I unplugged the modem and then powered it up again after a 30 sec. or so delay. The sync light still flashed. So I grabbed the paper and sat on hold until a Rogers "technician" answered. After the usual ID procedure, Brian said he was going to "check" my modem. "Oh," he said, "they are working on a problem in your area." At least he didn't go through reboot your machine, your modem, yadayada stuff first. I always have to explain that I have a FreeBSD OS box connected — you don't have to do any of that stuff except for perhaps restarting the DHCP daemon. It seems to have been down for about 5 hours according to my DNS logs.
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