Old Matt Zaske Blog

Server Update! After some wrestling with FTP, NFS, SMB, and all other sorts of file transfer/sharing protocols, I managed to get the data I want to keep from the old server box backed up. It wasn’t pretty. For some reason (to the best of my knowledge), an old session of nautilus (the file browser in…

New Links! I’ve changed the MattLinks page somewhat to reflect some new things I’ve found and additions I figured appropriate. I added a hilarious reference (see under Stupid/Random Links) for the Wooden Periodic Table — a project I really admire…and shudder to think about at the same time. There are also other additions and changes…

Firewall Rules… So, I’ve managed to do some serious research with formats in iptables and how it really differs from ipchains. I’m in the process now of deciding how to restructure the chains in the filter table… Fortunately, I won’t have to do much rewriting of the actual rules, since that information pretty much stays…

And The Run Was Complete… At long last, day 7 of 7 at work has arrived. And there was much rejoicing! What am I planning on doing during my day off? That’s a good question — the answer I don’t yet know. One Step Closer Regarding the new server box and switchover, I’ve managed to…

And They Rotated! After my battle with the image linkers over the last few months, I’ve managed to get the situation under control — even to the point where I have only been logging the ‘bad attempts’ to get images. I’ve been doing this for two reasons: 1) to catch people ‘in the act’, and…

And there were Five… Day 5 of 7 consecutive work days is complete. Two to go… Woohoo!!! In other news… We went to see Bruce Almighty at the good ol’ Morris theater tonight. I would have to say that it was money well spent — a funny movie. Most likely will have to be added…

DICT Progress Is Made… I took some time last night while doing other things (offline — away from the computer) to download all sorts of stuff (indicies and data) for DICTd — the server end of the DICTionary protocol. As you may know from previous news postings, I’ve been having difficulty in using DICT for…

Another year passes… Yup, another birthday has come and gone…and I’m as a result one year older than I was. Pretty slow and relaxing weekend, which was good. Nothing overly strenuous, which was a nice change from the pseudo-chaoticness of the last several months. Still haven’t managed to get all the server box stuff completed,…

Spare Parts? It’s time for some housecleaning with regards to my stockpile of spare computer parts. I’ve got everything from older cases to motherboards, processors, tons of RAM, drives, cables, and mounting hardware. I’ll have to set up a ‘testing’ machine to figure out exactly what some of these parts are (e.g. RAM sizes, video…

And Printing Was Good… I’ve managed to (albeit slowly) get most of the server’s services running, including printer support. Granted, this was made considerably easier (across the network) by the addition of the PostScript module for the printer (like a RAM module, almost). The main difference is that the Mac now natively prints to my…