07:54 Currently 70°F Feels like 70°F
Today we mourn the death of one of the great basses of all time John Entwistle of The Who. He will be missed.

Last night we had a good storm that cooled everything down. So that meant no air conditioning in the bedroom. It was the best night sleep I had all week. I even over slept this morning. Thank goodness the cat started playing in the bedroom and woke me up.

Worst visit to the NY office I have had yet. The firewall box took a hit in route with Fed-Ex, so I had to get that put back together and working. Once I got it working and connected to the router. I could ping both sides of the router, but when I try to ping the name server no joy. The DSL line was down 2 days after the install. At least my install engineer at UUNET is cool and got right onto the problem. Now if I can only keep him past the 30 days for all the problems I know I am going to have with this DSL.. I hate the telecom situation in NY city.

Now Verizon has to come out and take a look because UUNET and Rhythms couldn’t even see the router but I had a green ready light.

Just plan to finish up the jabber server today and design a quick web page for it.

13:30 Currently 78°F Feels like 81°F
Woo hoo got the Jabber server running and working. now I just have to slap together a quick web page explaining how to do things. Hope to get most of the family using it.

Plane on working on the Lavignaonline.com site this weekend after I redo the laptop again, this time with Mandrake 8.* .

BTW the DSL in New York is back up. I am planing on going back up on Monday for a hour or so just to get things working and back to normal. More later….

07:00 Currently 77°F Feels like 80°F
Well off to New York to install Firewall. Shouldn’t be to bad.

Didn’t do much last night, just hung out with Avery and Carolyn and worked on the jabber server. Had to build and install the ICQv7-t module, the AIM module wasn’t passing the information from out in the real world to the server. It took about 20 min to get the v7-t module working and talking to the world. Now I just have to get the startup script Alan let me have working on the server.

Well off to the train station.

08:15 Currently 71°F Feels like 81°F
Forgot how much fun it is to have a kitten in the house. She is now so use to us and the house that she is climbing on us and all the furniture and playing with anything she can get her paws on.

Starting the hottest day of the week today. It’s already 77 at 8:17am. I almost have the jabber server working and have to test it. Another thanks to Arcterex for his input on it since he got his running a few weeks ago.

Working on the Firewall for the New York office’s DSL line. Going to try to get it shipped there today so I can go tomorrow and install it and be done with it. Then I can start the VPN project.

Took the kitten to the Dr. Chris. She got a clean bill of health and got her first 2 shots. Now that we know what sex she is her name is Morticia as in the Adams Family.

The patio furniture was delivered as well this morning. We picked out the St. Thomas set from Sears. It took me about an hour to get the table and chairs built.

Last night I got the licensing error fixed on the Checkpoint firewall. The upgrade to FW-1/VPN NG forgot to carry over the external.if file which defines the external card for the program.