Day: 22 May 2003

Got my leise

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So I got the envelope with my executed copy of my new lease. Now all I need to do is call my current land lord and work out some sort of agreement over the last 2 months of rent.

Then there is the endless address change forms to fill out. The ordering of cable, etc.

I need to get a new lock for the door. Turns out I could have put an extra lock on my current apartment and I didn’t even know I could.

Some other good news about this new apartment. It faces west so I won’t get woken up by the rising sun. I have that problem now since I face south east. I get tons of sun. I like it dark when I sleep. It can be bright in the apartment in the afternoon. I am only home in the afternoon on the weekends anyway.

My sister has cool terrace furniture that she is going to show me. I don’t remember where they got it from, but we will take a trip to the store if I like it, so I can get a table and some chairs.

No cable modem

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The unthinkable has happened. Worse than no phone or TV, I have no internet access! I woke up this morning and went to check the weather and I found myself without internet access. Now I have had my cable modem go out before. In baton rouge it went out almost every week for like 5 minutes. The last time I lost my cable modem it was down for a week. That is why I am so concerned. These moron’s can’t do anything over the phone so for any problem they send a tech out. I should be thankful that I got an appointment for tomorrow (friday) because going a holiday weekend without it would have been bad.

This blog is being written now while I goto work on thursday morning, but I have no idea when it will get posted since my web server is down due to this outage.

I should get used to no access. When I am on vacation in 2 weeks I won’t have cell, pager, or internet access for the entire week. That will be interesting.

Holiday weekend

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To be honest I have no plans on the agenda for the holiday. I just realized I had off this week. I am not sure if it will be nice out or not. If it is I may goto the beach with my family. I haven’t done that in ages. Of course I can’t check the weather since I have no internet access!!!

I do have a bunch of projects around the house I want to do. I can think I will get some done this weekend, but I probably wont.

I want to frame this picture my sister gave me. I need to finish working on my web site. I need to get my dad my scanner so he can begin to digitize his slide collection. I also have some video’s to encode to MPEG also.

We have FTP, almost!

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I have worked out allot of the problems with hosting an ftp server on linux. I have a red hat 9.0 machine setup with users configured. It actually works. The last thing I need to do is security on the public folder I created for our applications directory. We have a space to keep needed app’s that may be downloaded. I need to setup a real test machine and get users onto it before I feel confident. The next major phase is to setup another FTP server on linux and sync them together with RSYNC. I also need to sync a windows machine the same way. If all that works, I have a working solution for our secure FTP site for a perspective client we have.

Of course someone may ask for SFTP and then I have to rethink the whole solution!

Drinking after work again

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Some of us went out after work today. Miguel knows a friend that promotes parties, so we went to one. Keith, Sam, Alyssa, Jenn, Miguel, Vijay, and I went. It was ok. the drinks were strong, but the music wasn’t setup when we got there. I was tired and needed to get some work done tonight so I took off after 2 drinks with Sam. He gave me a ride to penn station. he is really funny.

A few of us are planning on friday night drinking this weekend. more information on that when I get it. My hands are tired, so more later.