The Cult of Gary

Over the Christmas break, I set time machine to backup my laptop to a USB drive attached to my Mythbuntu backend server. There are plenty of instructions out there on how to do this. I used this one.
The machine I’m using as the server is old. It doesn’t have onboard USB 2.0 ports, so the [...]

And it was the one my blog was running on.
It was the damnest thing too. I was able to reboot it from the API and look at the console output. As far as I can tell, the network adapter wasn’t able to DHCP an IP address:

Welcome to CentOS release 5 (Final)
Press ‘I’ to enter [...]