If you see your syslog populated with similar messages like this: (istanbul is the name of the machine)

Nov 24 06:31:54 istanbul kernel: eth0: Transmit error, Tx status register 82.
Nov 24 06:31:54 istanbul kernel: Probably a duplex mismatch.
See Documentation/networking/vortex.txt
Nov 24 06:31:54 istanbul kernel:   Flags; bus-master 1,
 dirty 801945(9) current 801945(9)
Nov 24 06:31:54 istanbul kernel:   Transmit list 00000000 vs. c46c6440.
Nov 24 06:31:54 istanbul kernel:   0: @c46c6200  length 800000b2 status 0c0100b2
Nov 24 06:31:54 istanbul kernel:   1: @c46c6240  length 80000042 status 00010042
Nov 24 06:31:54 istanbul kernel:   2: @c46c6280  length 80000042 status 00010042
Nov 24 06:31:54 istanbul kernel:   3: @c46c62c0  length 80000082 status 0c010082
Nov 24 06:31:54 istanbul kernel:   4: @c46c6300  length 800005ea status 0c0105ea
Nov 24 06:31:54 istanbul kernel:   5: @c46c6340  length 800005ea status 0c0105ea
Nov 24 06:31:54 istanbul kernel:   6: @c46c6380  length 800005ea status 0c0105ea
Nov 24 06:31:54 istanbul kernel:   7: @c46c63c0  length 800005ea status 0c0105ea
Nov 24 06:31:54 istanbul kernel:   8: @c46c6400  length 800005ea status 8c0105ea
Nov 24 06:31:54 istanbul kernel:   9: @c46c6440  length 800000d2 status 0c0100d2
Nov 24 06:31:54 istanbul kernel:   10: @c46c6480  length 80000052 status 0c010052
Nov 24 06:31:54 istanbul kernel:   11: @c46c64c0  length 80000072 status 0c010072
Nov 24 06:31:54 istanbul kernel:   12: @c46c6500  length 80000082 status 0c010082
Nov 24 06:31:54 istanbul kernel:   13: @c46c6540  length 80000252 status 0c010252
Nov 24 06:31:54 istanbul kernel:   14: @c46c6580  length 80000282 status 0c010282
Nov 24 06:31:54 istanbul kernel:   15: @c46c65c0  length 80000082 status 0c010082

as suggested check Documentation/networking/vortex.txt of course

Generally the problem is that your host is running on Half-Duplex mode where the others in the same network is running with Full-Duplex mode:

So issue a:

mii-tool -F 10baseT-FD

or

mii-tool -F 100baseTx-FD

Depending on your type of connection

As the document says:

As a last resort, you can force the 3c59x driver into full-duplex mode with
         options 3c59x full_duplex=1

Yesterday I rode to DC for work. (Some of us call it commute, i call it pleasure ) When you usually go to DC you look for a parking spot. If you live or work around Golden Triangle you are luckier with a motorcycle. Because there are several motorcycle parking spots around this area. This particular one on Penn avenue between 18th and 19th street NW is always empty. Here is why?!

First of all, although this part of Penn Avenue has almost no rush hour traffic at all after the closure of the part of it behind the white house, there is still a rush hour enforcement. This means at 4 pm you need to take your bike out of that spot, or a $100.00 ticket is waiting for you. Second, and the most stupid reason is that the park meters there are always FAILing. Here is what happened to me yesterday.

I parked my bike on one of these meters. I put a quarter (a quarter = 1 hour parking) meter displayed 1:00, i put another, still 1:00, i said ok a glitch, i put another… Still 1:00……. So I said ok this is broken so i went to the next one. 0:00 is blinking. I put a quarter, bink! FAIL… I`m like… OK… Try the next one. Same story 0:00 .. put a quarter… blink! FAIL. I tried 4 (yes four) consecutive meters… and all of them… 0:00 .. put a quarter.. blink! FAIL… Nice sequence eh?

Now I`m at the 6th meter. I put a quarter, it displays 1:00! GREAT! I put a dime to test it out the first case. (I`m smart!) it displays 1:12. COOL! So i pull my bike from the first spot to this meter. Park, lock the bike, remove gloves, etc… Come back to the meter. Put another quarter… blink! FAIL! GRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!! DC Service Request Page. Work a bit, go to lunch and check my bike… WTF?! I have 12 mins left on my broken meter for my bike!

Cute browser Mozilla Firefox is here with its 1.0 version! Go ahead and start using it NOW! It is free, fast, fun to use, expendable, cooks dinner for you, etc… Also go to your local launch party and socialise Mozilla! Community backed browser… rediscover the web!

Edit: Currently mozilla.org pages are down for the enormous amount of requests. For a working download link go here

Well, this couple don`t want to be a christian couple. They are very happy to be non-christian lions. They even fight for their rights to not to change their religion. The male protects his female by clawing and biting the “converter”. Maybe the guy should have started with sheeps or less ferocious animals… Anyway, read and watch. Remember your mom`s words. Do not play with lions!

Yesterday night I watched Godfather, and went to bed. I was dreaming to see a new president of USA. But it was just a dream… The dream did not come true… Congrats to Bush. And patience to the 49% of the USA.

shak har boobis? Very funny Truth behind.

I`m not a US citizen but i`m living in this country for 5 years. I beg from fellow americans to go and vote today. If you like Bush go vote for him, if you like Kerry go vote for him. But move your body and GO VOTE for somebody. (For Kerry! ) Anyway. It`s time to vote!

(I also think that Afghanis and Iraqis should vote on this election since the election in the US affects their future too.)

I purchased an old old Toshiba Tecra 500CDT laptop from ebay. (pentium 150, 32 MB RAM, 1.2 GB HDD) It arrived last week. My project is to convert it to a digital picture frame. Here are my goals for the moment.

First I`m thinking to install debian to it. To do this I created boot floppies. I was thinking to boot from those floppies and continue on net installation. But it looks like the floppy is dead. I had a PCMCIA CDRom. But unfortunately the BIOS lets only to boot from FDD or HDD.

The next step will be installing zgv since i`m not planning to install X to the laptop. I hope that the svga device will be enough to display the digital pics.

Also I have a DWL-650 D-Link 802.11b PCMCIA Wireless card. I`m thinking to create an NFS shareon my home network somewhere and upload the pics to that share and of mount it to the laptop and read the pics from that share.

Another cool thing would be a mini info center. A web enabled info box that receives weather, traffic info and maybe some headlines and displays it in between the pics. Like 10 pics, 2 info – 10 pics, 2 info, etc… Wake up, see some loved ones on screen, and weather info, some more loved ones., what is that? Bush not reelected… mmm coool… aaaah mom and dad Aaaah zipiiir. AAaahhh zinoo mini sleepleees… Aaaah damn Metro is not working today!

Anyway i`ll let you know step by step

Very cool video and song from Eminem. Aired on Guerilla News Network. I`m impressed!

New Washington, DC metro ads are hilarious! Metro is dependable! Why?

- Because it has smarttrip:

Dude! Metro only got smart trip cards few years ago. Everywhere else than DC Metro area had this for at least ten years! Hellloooo??? That makes it very dependable!

- Because it is accessible:

If you want a commuter service that works and if you want people to use it, it MUST be accessible. How can anybody use anything when they cannot access it? That`s why Metro is very very very dependable.

- Because it has visual signs that shows the train coming:

Wow! That is one important thing! Those blinking lights on the ground with every bulb different than the other, and the visual display on every terminal that displays more security concerns than the train traffic… Also the train information is available when you are physically at the track platform. What about putting some info BEFORE getting on the platform? Just to let people know: Sorry we have delays… Currently we are experiencing security problems… Nevermind that`s only a mini trash fire…

(Anybody remembers Rosslyn train station trash FIIIRREEE? I had to literally walk from farragut West station to Dupont Circle and take the blue bus between dupont and rosslyn. That trip took 45 mins! Why? because of a trash fire in Rosslyn station Farragut West AND Foggy Bottom stations were shut down! Very dependable…)

Oh! If you realize that there is a problem when you are “on the platform” and if you decide to get out and have a coffee for waiting problem to be resolved, you pay the shortest distance fee. That makes the definition of the short distance as a walk in the same station and back . It is very simple… If the boarding station AND the quitting station are equal => FEE=0. Add a time parameter if you think that people might use the metro just for taking few trains, never getting out from another station and coming back to the same station they boarded… It comes to:
If the boarding station AND the quitting station are equal AND the trip time < 10 mins (for example) => FEE=0

- Metro has a Police Unit:

I feel myself very safe… They do a great job… But…

October 2004: A pregnant woman forced to the ground by a Metro Transit Police (MTP) for resisting arrest. Why? Cause she was talking loud on her cellphone and cursing… Wow! I feel safe… I won`t hear cursing in the metro. Very cool! What about a police officer for each citizen? When the citizen curses the officer should scream a loud BEEEP. So we will not hear cursing. I should write this to the MTP.

July 16 2004: MTP handcuffs a woman who was eating a candy bar on a subway station! I feel safe again. Now my teeth and the teeth of the other people using metro are very safe! MTP protects us against the baad baad sugar that eats our teeth! U eat in the station u get handcuffed. New dietary solution from the Metro officials! YAY!

Year 2000: a 12 year old girl was arrested for eating frech fries on a subway platform!!!! No @#!#@@#$ comment. (You didn`t hear the curses cause the officer just beeped next to me…)

Oh it is soo pathetic I cannot continue anymore…

Note: For the arrest records check out Today`s (10/22/04) Washington Post Express page 8. (It`s a PDF file). (thanks Sleepless for pointing me out how to link to a certain PDF page)