Now to top off my shitty day, something just happened to the firewall, so our network is now dead until I get home!
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Well,.. all the machines are behind the firewall, and so far I only have a couple minor problems to be worked out. It was much less painful than I expected. Anyhow, It’s late. I must get some sleep.
Well,.. I made it into work in 35 minutes door to door. This weekend was good, just went by way too fast (dont they always). Saturday night, Steph, Rudy, and I went out to thai lemon grass for dinner. Food was great, I miss that place. Afterwards, Rudy and I got started on the new firewall config. I stayed up till about 4am workin on it, then finally forced myself to go to bed. Woke up around 11 yesterday, and got right back on it. I put my laptop behind the firewall, and had no problems, so I decided to put Steph’s powerbook behind to test. Her powerbook is connected to the net via an airport. For those of you not familiar with what an airport actually does, it’s basicly a router for a wireless network. Unfortunately because of this, it must have it’s own arp table that you can’t get to, because it was being a bitch everytime I’d make a change. I spent the entire day fighting with her stupid mac hardware, which would just randomly stop communicating with the router. Finally around 9pm, a friend gave me the idea of putting it on a separate hub off of the switch, to see if it would clean up. That did the trick, it was workin great, even figured out a way to get Steph’s irc program through the firewall. So tonight, I will put the servers behind and pray that all is good. Today we start the d00gie obedience classes. It’s an 8 week class that meets every monday. It should be fun. All for now.
ATTENTION!!!! Please Read this!
Okay, I’m not sure how many of you know about this yet, so here it is. As most of you are aware, both Stephanie & I lost our mothers to cancer. Recently, Intel teamed up with United Devices for the Volunteer your pc for cancer research.
For those of you familiar with SETI, it’s the same concept, EXCEPT… This is a worthwhile cause! For those of you not familiar with how this works, here’s the skinny. You download the agent, install it, and run it. You can either set it to run all the time in the background (very little overhead), or you can schedule it to run during certain times, or just have it run as a screensaver.
What does it do?? Basicly you are connected to another server, which then uses your computer’s resources to crunch data for the research. The only shitty thing, they only have the agent in wintel format right now. They just got out of beta testing last week, and expect to have mac and linux agents soon! So here’s what all you pc users with dedicated connections need to do: Go Here to download the agent. After you install it, and setup a member name, Click Here to join my team (Segall/Innanen).
That’s it! You are now making a difference that will hopefully save someone’s life. You can setup as many computers as you want (ie,.. work, home, school). There is a device manager, that allows you to label them.
Thank you for your time.
I know, I’m a slacker. I never update my journal these days. Here’s what’s been going on. Last week, I decided that I wanted to start doing streaming audio again since I actually have the bandwidth to do so. So I setup my shoutcast server, with the intention of doing streams occaisonaly. After I started streaming, a few people asked me if it was gonna be on all night, and I was like, ummm probably not. Then I realized that I wanted the stream up all the time, to listen to at work, and at my desk. So I started setting things up, and next thing ya know, there are 6.5 gigz of mp3’z on my HD. Last night I started setting up the website. It is in the fetal stage right now. I have a ton of things I will be doing. Most important, the design. Stephanie, my wondrful wife, is working on re-developing an old design she had done for one of my old sites. It’s gonna rawk! If you wanna check out the stream click here. Enjoy!
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The dns is is finally setup correctly! Only took them a week, 3 30-45 minute phone calls, and several phone calls. Now we just hafta wait for all the changes to propagate out to all the ISP nameservers. Now I can concentrate on more important things. like getting setup so that we can start taking some clients, and making back some of this money we are paying. Anyone interested in web/mail hosting & or graphic design services E-Mail Me. We are planning some pretty cool stuff.
Wow!
So far it’s been a good morning. My commute was only about 35 minutes this morning. The first time thats happened in a LONG time. DNS changes are all under way for my shit. Now hopefully work won’t ruin my day. But fuck it I say! It’s Friday!
T1!
What the fuck iz the world coming to?!?!? We actually have the T1 now!!!!
Well,.. I’m back. The wedding and honeymoon were great! Back at work today, wishing I was still on vacation. The T1 circuit was supposed to be setup yesterday, and of course verizon didnt show. Allow me to backtrack… I got back from Mexico on Saturday night, and checked my voicemail. There was a message from verizon on 3/20, confirming that they would be out on 3/22 to setup the T1 circuit. Then another from the Tech on 3/22 saying he’d be there at whatever time. So Monday morning, I call CAIS and ask them about this. They say that they know nothing of verizon coming out on 3/22, and that the FOC date is still 3/27. So I wait around all day yesterday, and of course they dont show. I call CAIS again last night and tell them that verizon didnt show. They tell me that they will check with provisioning and lemme know what’s up today. Sure enough they call me this morning and tell me that the circuit was setup on 3/22, and that they just found out about it. RETARDS! So with any luck,.. it will be up tomorrow.
dum duh dum dum
Well, as I’m sure most of you know, since you read steph’s journal too, we finally set a date for the wedding! We will be getting married on St. Patrick’s day. We will be broadcasting the wedding online for all to see. We’ll have more details once we get things setup.