2 Bit Hacker

Not much to report on. Since my last update it’s pretty much been life as usual. At work I built up a file server for SimPro. It’s a FreeBSD box running Samba, and I got it to do all the nifty file sharing and print sharing stuff. And it’s even an NT domain controller. I’m pretty happy with it.

On Thursday night I cooked dinner for Andrea. Well, she helped quite a bit, but I still like to think I cooked her dinner. We had chicken curry. It was very tasty. I think I’ll have to start cooking more, it was actually pretty fun. Friday night she cooked turkey burgers for me. It was also pretty tasty, though the smoke alarm kept going off while we were cooking, which sucked. We also watched a very odd movie that I can’t remember the title of.

Last night, Jason and I went to see Fellowship of the Ring again. I’ve posted an entry about it over in moviereviews this time, since I don’t think a review from the idiot-teen ridden showing would have been fair.

Oh, and I took a survey. But I’ll save you all from the horror by using a cut.

I took the What Mythological Creature Are you? test by
peacefulchaos !

Last weekend was the big network redo for Valvcon/SimPro/IronCastle. It ended up going pretty smoothly. Friday night I worked on upgrading all the servers and routers to FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE, which went pretty well. On Saturday I messed up one of the 4.5 upgrades by over-writing the sendmail.cf with a standard one, when we needed one with cyrus support. Luckily, I found a config from the last time I broke sendmaill/cyrus, so it was okay.

Saturday, everything got recabled and reconfiged, and it ended up pretty much just working, which was good.

Sunday, I rested.

Today, we found out that two of the network printers wern’t working. One had an old access list on it that was preventing the new IP space from talking to it, and the other one managed to get the wrong IP from dhcp somehow. But it’s all working now, and so I am happy.

Now I get to do fun stuff, like look into Postfix/Courier to replace Sendmail/Cyrus (I hate sendmail, and I hate cyrus), and other neat things. Should be interesting.

With the network rework coming up this weekends, I wonder if Dave would let me put my old computer on one of the server nets so I could have a server all my own…. Hmm…