Old Matt Zaske Blog

One Step Closer… The Monty Python TWiki Changeover has gone somewhat faster than I’d anticipated. Fortunately, the transfer from stock HTML to TWiki Style has been pretty straightforward and really not that intense (just somewhat time consuming). Currently, I’ve gotten the template system in working order, all the main pages have received their changes, all…

Rain, Rain, More Rain… This has been continually the case since about Saturday afternoon…very humid…and very rainy. Several (somewhat severe) storms have passed through the region since the 21st…and it doesn’t look to be stopping anytime soon (at least through the end of the week. This has made for a somewhat dull outlook on activities;…

Happy Anniversary! Well, it’s the big #1 here. One year of marriage. An interesting concept, really. Fortunately, after a relatively strange (don’t ask) end of the week, it’s turned out a nice day to eat that frozen chunk of wedding cake (which surprisingly enough was just as good as it was the first time)… Monty…

And There Was Bryce… After some minor prodding by some folks at one of the message boards where I reside, I was brought back to the land of Bryce — a land where I haven’t played for close to a year. For those of you who don’t know what Bryce is, it’s 3D rendering software,…

More configurations… After realizing that some configuration changes were still needed with certain services on the network (such as sendmail, which was 99% of the configuration changes necessary), I have successfully now brought the network situation back into line. I discovered a miniscule (but somewhat major) weirdness in local mail. This before wasn’t a problem,…

Server Upgrade Complete With the completion of the last minor tasks necessary to get things back up and running in a more permanent sense, the server split and upgrade project has been completed. I had to add a few cron jobs for things like the monthly DNS update, remove and change some settings for the…

Back to NORMAL After taking some time to cut back the upper portion of the multi-shelf unit (which used to hold the printers), I’ve turned it into something much better for this room…and something which works and looks a lot better than before. This means that I’ve also rearranged the server layout and all sorts…

One Step Closer To Normal After some (more) tinkering with the server box (NS), I’ve managed to get some other weirdnesses fixed. Most of these are minor in nature and have to do with the boot order and boot processes. I’ve managed to get the ftp daemon working (without much trouble) and accessible for ‘trusted’…

Unanticipated Performance Gain! After last night’s posting about the NS server box going through its next phase of life, I was glad to be done. Now both machines are running the exact same OS…with many cool features between the two (and set up the way I want them to be now). One slightly anticipated (but…

The Server LIVES! After taking far too long to get to this evening, I finally tackled the server conversion project. Ultimately with success, although the battle was not trivial, either. First off, I had to make some hardware changes (remove extra drives) to the server box. This was necessary for heat purposes in particular, as…