Due to my inability to match the configuration of the webserver files and the machine that generates the random email address, that particular feature was broken within 24 hours of my putting it into service. Whoops.
It’s all better now, I assure you. From now on, all features get fully tested before being announced. Honest.
Some things I just can’t let go of. One of these is my sense of nostalgia, especially for drivel I’ve set to paper or electron storage at some time in the past. You wouldn’t believe some of the crap I still have cramming old three-ring binders in my closet.
In other words, the Thoughts channel is back, and repopulated with the four journal entries from the old Zero database. Read and enjoy. I mean hell, you’re reading this, so you might as well go read those too.
Instead of leaving Zero’s webserver shut down, I’ve decided instead to have her index page redirect to this journal page, just like the index page here on greyduck.net itself. Slick, huh?
There’s a method to my madness, of course. Now I can use Zero’s webserver to do various “extra” things that Invite’s servers aren’t really set up to do, like provide the randomized email address trick. (It should be working now. Feel free to test it! The link is right below the Calendar.)
The relationship between greyduck.net and zero.kgon.com is now firmly incestuous. Fun, no?
Last night went rather well, all things considered. I’m quite pleased. I came in this morning and there was no lynch mob outside my door… that’s always a good sign.
Today? I’m rebuilding Yet Another Promotions Computer, this time the scannerbox. I was hoping to just repair Photoshop, but it just didn’t go as planned, so once again it’s start from scratch. Ah well, it’s what they pay me for, isn’t it?
I’m having problems with display corruption on Ryoko with the Mozilla browser. Maybe it’s the nVidia drivers, maybe it’s X, maybe it’s Mozilla, maybe it’s XScreensaver. We’ll find out, won’t we?
Oh, and I think I have nearly every Cowboy Bebop mp3 available anywhere. Yay! Lots of good listening… though also lots of weird listening.
One of the hobbies I’m more-or-less involved in right now is the viewing, reviewing and creation of Anime Music Videos, or AMVs. I’m a member of the animemusicvideos.org website, although certainly not the most active or elite member.
So what’s this I’m rambling about? Well, you take some Japanese animation footage, preferably from DVD. Take a song from CD. Get some sort of video editing software. Spend weeks of your life cutting, previewing, tinkering, cussing and fussing. At the end, you have a hand-crafted music video the likes of which MTV has never seen.
It’s cool, dammit. Check it out.
animemusicvideos.org
Someone else got a package in the mail today. Lucky for me, inside that package was another package with my name on it. What’s inside, you ask? A pair of CD-ROM discs, one for each of my Entercom-network Netware servers.
So here it is, 8pm Tuesday night and I’m running service pack installs. They said they wanted it done ASAP, and this is about as ASAP as it gets.
Another thing I did today was to (finally!) put together a spreadsheet detailing which Linux boxes have what version of the different daemons and services. This will help to deal with those security alerts and what-not. For instance, this was my chance to upgrade to proftpd 1.2.5rc1 to deal with a security hole in previous releases. (I actually dialed down proftpd on a couple of machines… no point!)
If all goes well (and there’s no reason why it should) I could be home in a couple of hours.
ProFTPd website
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