Well my snow report goes to steamboat.com to get updates and I noticed it was not updating. After looking into it further it looks to me that the DNS servers they are using are down, making it impossible for anyone to go to steamboat.com or email anybody with a steamboat.com email address.
A whois shows me that Intrawest has the DNS servers on the same class C block of IP addresses, this is bad. When the internet goes down on the intrawest subnet all of steamboat.com goes down because they have no backup name server on a separate internet connection.
DNS2.INTRAWEST.COM 208.181.214.65
DNS1.INTRAWEST.COM 208.181.214.66
Sending “pings” to the DNS IP’s just times out. 
— 208.181.214.65 ping statistics —
76 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 75057ms
Shame on steamboat.com’s DNS administrator. This is basic internet101stuff and could be repaired in just a few minutes if anybody over at steamboat.com had a clue. If you are reading this and you are from steamboat.com, please fix this so I can scrape the snow report successfully once again. If you need help send me@phrog.org some email and ski vouchers and I would be happy to help fix this properly.
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Well some of you may have noticed the addition of the snow report and weather to my sidebar. Since phrog.org is the first thing I see in my web browser every morning while I drink my coffee I figured I may as well get the weather I needed to decide if it was a ski day or not.
The snow report comes from steamboat.com which offers up an XML feed of the report, however it has been broken for years because it has no “style” associated with it, making it useless for anyone with a normal RSS reader to subscribe. more »
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Today i’m installing ampache with a nerd in training on his ubuntu laptop heres the notes
install required stuff
sudo apt-get install apache2 php5 phpmyadmin mysql-server
Go to http://localhost to see if “It Works!” if so then apache2 is running.
Then try http://localhost/phpmyadmin if it loads then ya have php5 working with apache2! requirements done. Let’s move on
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“Geek Night” happens when somewhat non-geek friends of mine want to bust some ass on code and get down to business and make shit happen on the internet. I provide the nerdness, they get me wasted, and somehow things end up okay. Last night we managed to make this happen. Please check out the latest additions to the phrog blogroll lauralamun.com and daveallendrums.com.
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If your on an etree.org mailing list then you know the server has been borked for a while. Well I upgraded the server to a 1Ghz machine yesterday. you can keep an eye on it here.
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