Take II on this entry (note to self: write some kind of primitive HTML tag checker to ensure that tags are closed properly in journal entries).
Spent the entire yesterday rearranging the computer room in Tracy's (er... our) apartment. Reconfigured the network to incorporate my router box properly -- now I have a desktop machine (albeit with a flakey 3Comm card... #$!@$!@$!!!!) that is not responsible for the router, web server, etc., etc. Still not finished yet, but we're closer.
The new router is the latest Mandrake (but without the latest Kernel -- couldn't get that to work with ReiserFS properly. Screw it). Its currently running apache/php/mysql and sendmail. Future plans include mailman and bind. I kinds need DNS running soon, 'cause mail is currently kludged to look like it came from lsc.nd.edu (shh!!); need a proper squyres.com name other than wedding.squyres.com. :-) It doesn't appear to be perfect yet (Don's still having X forwarding issues via OpenSSH), but I've already removed the monitor and hidden it under the desk.
The desktop is a compaq desktop with serious I/O suckage. I just backed up all the data on it [temporarily] to AFS, leaving the way clear to upgrade it to the latest Mandrake when I return to KY on Saturday. I'm also a bit wary of upgrading that machine because it has some special SCSI drivers in it that took Dog and I *several* days to get right the last time we installed Linux on here. Let's hope that these SCSI drivers are mainstream enough to be in the main distros these days!
Also spent a bit of time yesterday helping Don and Ed configure their fantasy football league on www.fhffl.com (which is really wedding.squyres.com gotta love DSL!) -- it's part of a long-standing deal which is now probably defunct because Lummy is likely moving to IU, but what the hey. In helping them possibly move to a real database rather than text-file-based data storage, I had to explain a lot of database concepts to them (no DB background at all, but they're smart guys). We're having another infamous "beer-n-computer science meeting" at MBC tonight. Yummy. Will code for beer!
Mmmm... Chemical Brothers... mmm...
While I'm upgrading everything, I just got the latest linux netscape (4.74). Let's see what kind of mess it can create, now!
Went to see a Louisville River Bats minor league baseball game last night with Tracy and a bunch of people from GE (a freebie from the good folks at GE). The stadium is brand new -- only been operating this year. The game was by no means a sellout, but it there was a pretty good sized crowd there. Nice stadium, too -- bigger than the Silverhawks stadium -- it even has an upper deck. Their mascot is a purple fuzzy dude who has some flaps hanging off his arms that are supposed to pass as bat wings. He came out during the later innings with a t-shirt gun. Very amusing -- it could launch tightly scrunched t-shirts into the upper deck from where he was standing near the dugout.
Met several of Tracy's coworker's kids, had some beer, and mmm... ballpark hot dogs. Is there anything in this life as good as a ballpark hot dog and/or brat? Quite yummy. And to top it all off, we won the game. The River Bats had a cool 3-run homer in the first or second, sucked for most of the 2-7th innings, and then had a rally and won something like 10-5.
Now I gotta drive back . Will solve the X forwarding problem later (seems to have something to do with the fact that openssh X auth != regular ssh X auth, and the fact that Goofy's shoes, contrary to popular belief, were at least 2 sizes too small).