Internet On!!!

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My internet came back on at home a bit after I got to work. I was pinging it and it came up. It went back down for a few minutes again and then went back up. The people at Road Runner called me to check if it was up. They said they fixed it remotely. They don’t say they can do that when you call. I guess I had a low signal problem or something like that. Lets just hope it stay’s up

The research I did at work on FTP on red hat has been very productive. I am about ready to setup FTP on my home linux server this weekend. Their are just a few things I want to sort out first.

Not sure if we are going out drinking tonight or not. I will know later.

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.

must learn read hat flavored linux

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I am slowly picking stuff up. Not nearly as fast as I would like or need, but there is only so much time in the day not taken up by work that needs to get done before I learn.

Today I am going to try and pick up as much as I can about linux ftp. I need to look at the config files of an existing server to compare what I want to do.

I also need to do MRTG, but that is less important than the FTP project.

All the other standard work stuff also needs to get done today also. I have a 2pm meeting with our telecom provider about installation of our long distance T-1’s. I also need to call a telecom provider that wanted our business to let them know they didn’t get it. I am actually pissed at them for showing up to just talk to Gus because I didn’t return the guys phone call in a few hours. Sales guys take note, I am busy. So are other people. If I don’t want to call back in 5 minutes, I am not going to. Get over it. If I need or want you, I will call you. Some sales guys are cool about that, others are dumbass. If you are a dumbass I am not dealing with you.

My computers & Blogging stuff

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I realized yesterday that I wrote a bunch of blog entries. I decided to write an entry on on topic, or group of topics. So if I want to discuss a few things at once I will have multiple entries broken down for your reading enjoyment.

I am back into my routine of writing on the train. that is how we got the morning and afternoon posts yesterday. I just forget to post when I get to work and just have to post time-stamp things later on. I tried to use the thinkpad for blog entry’s. I found a bug in w.bloggar. Well I think it is a bug. The dam thing wont work on my laptop. I use it once after install and then it crashes every time I try to open it after that. I just gave up on Monday. My powerbook works great, and it is light. I can do without the thinkpad some days during the week.

Yes I do have two laptops. You are reading correctly. I have my own personal Apple Powerbook G4 12″. it is the little powerbook. It is awesome. I am new to the mac’s. I have only had a mac since last july. The other machine is my company issued Thinkpad T31. It has a bright screen and weight’s around the same as the Powerbook even though it is bigger in shape. It is also an awesome machine. The down side is that as much as I tried, I cannot get any windows laptops to go into and out of standby and hibernate modes properly. The mac usually works. Also the smaller mac is easier to open on the train.

Then we have desktops. I have 3 computers at home (not counting the laptops). I currently have an AMD Atholon XP 1500+ computer running Windows XP Pro. That machine is my main desktop computer. I don’t use it nearly enough anymore, but I bought it in December 2001 when my desktop was my main computer. This box is tricked out even though I don’t utilize it that much. It has a gig of ram, 180gig hard drive, etc.

My next two machines are used as servers. I have my old desktop, A Pentium III 800 with 780megs of ram. I use that to test different things on. It used to be my windows 2000 server. Then I have an old Dell Dimension desktop that I think has Pentium III 700 in it. That is now my main server running Red Hat 9.0.

While I am on the topic of my computer gear I can say that I am using a Linksys DSL Cable router with 802.11g wireless built in. That gives me fast wireless while I am on my Powerbook!

There you have it. I am trying to shrink down the size or amount of stuff I have so it doesn’t look so bad in my living room. I just put the AMD computer into a new smaller & cooler looking case. The other two are already in mid tower cases so I am not sure what I can do with those.

Dam wireless updated

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So it looks like my internal wireless card is fried. IBM is being asswholes about fixing it. They say it didn’t come with the Thinkpad and they cant find the card serial number on my warrentee. I am faxing them the dam info, but it will be days before I can get it fixed. I hate tech support, maybe that is why I am glad when the tech support guy in my company works for me:) Gus probibly feels the same way about me! But really hardware support people at manufacturers all suck. I have not found many good ones. Even Cisco has done dumbass things in my book. I am not yet ready to go back to pen and paper. I will let you know when I am.

Migrane alert

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I keep forgetting to update this thing with when I get a migrane. So I got the “beginings of a migrane” today. It was the first one in a about 2 weeks. I took 2 furiset and I feel all better. Actually they make me feel more than all better, but I am not complaining. I worry about these drugs, but it worked.