Wow a busy day. I got up today and got working on the new office. Yesterday I pulled new electrical wires from the basement to the atitic for 4 new circits upstaris. Today I knoked the wholes into the walls for the new outlets. I droped new wireing down the walls before it got to hot in the attic.

I still have to drop the network/telcom wireing down the wall. Then I can start haning dry wall. I hope to have that done by Saturday night. I can then get it all taped and mudded befor mothers day.

Was looking on the web for new chairs for the office andthe dream chair is the Aeron. Now if I can find 2 for free.

Yesterday the DSL line went down again in our Woodbury office. It really didn’t go down per say it was just very slow on the D/L side of things. So I called the provider who in turned called their supplier. This all happened around 8am. I finally got a call back from the ISP around 11am. The tech said it was tested and there wasn’t a problem I laughed and said I think there is and asked if there provider had just tested.
He said yea and they rebuilt the circuit. Now wouldn’t you think that was something more then just testing?
The DSL provider for our ISP is NAS. This is the same provider that gave us the IDSL line here in Lawrenceville when I started. It was down more then it was up. Now the same sort of problems is happening in Woodbury as well.

Since I installed webalizer the other day I have been keeping an eye on the logs for this site a little more. Its interesting about a dozen different web crawlers/search engines a day are hitting this site. Just thought it was interesting. The same thing is happening over at rocknroll.com as well.

Yesterday when I went home for lunch the guy that my next-door neighbor hires to mow the lawn was there. I went in and Carolyn asked if I looked at the front yard. I went out and the guy had only mowed right up to the center of the lawn and stopped I was tempted to just go out give him $.50 to finish the lawn. I had to go home last night dig the lawnmower out of the shed and do my half of the front yard. Now when I do the lawn I also do the neighbors if her guy hasn’t been there yet because I am a nice guy.

More later if any thing cool happens today.

Ever have an itch that is only there once in a while. I have just such an itch..to own a radio station. When I got out of high school I got a job as a part time DJ for WVIN-FM/AM. This led to a full time job doing nights. Well after an owner change I lost my job and ever since then I have wanted to won my own station. Well that itch came back today. I found a small station in West Virginia for a whopping $150,000. It’s not as good a price for the one near my hometown that went for $62,000. If I only had the money and wanted to live out in the hills of West Virginia I would jump on it.

Spent the weekend working on computers, room reconstruction and watching TV. I got back to working on the office room upstairs by filling all the voids in the plaster with structolite on Sunday. This took about an hour to do I had to fill in all around the window.

On Saturday I went to a buddy of mine’s client to fix her wireless networking problem. It seemed she had a Toshiba Tecra with Win95 on it and the D-Link wireless card stopped connecting to the AP. I got there and was informed that her company had reimaged the machine with Windows 2000. I stuck the card in and the OS saw the card loaded the drivers and rebooted. When the laptop came back up it connected to the Ap with out a problem and was able to get out onto the Internet. So after proving that she could get o n the internet from any where in her house she proceeded to tell me that she also couldn’t connect to her companies VPN. She tried it and it still didn’t work so while I was there she called the company’s help desk. We were told by the helpdesk dweb after we explained the whole setup to him. That they didn’t support the software through a home firewall and that we should connect the computer directly into the users cable modem. I then pointed out that that would put the company’s laptop out there for all the little script kiddies to attack. The best was he gave us a web site with suggestions on getting things working, but the site was on the company’s internal network…it just makes me cry on the caliber of today’s helpdesk personnel.

Rant
If you are a company that is going to put out a VPN solution to your users so they can work at home you need to design your software so it will work through home firewalls like the ones found in today’s cable/dsl/wirelessrouters.
/Rant

Finally got Red Hat 9 downloaded and installed on the laptop. The install is getting much easier and much more professional looking. The nice thing was I didn’t need to load the linux-wlan drivers for my wireless card. They finally got the hermer/orinoco_cs working with my card right out of the box. The other nice thing is Red Hat finally seems to have started using a better set of fonts so looking at the screen is much better and surfing the web so far has been a lot less painful to look at. I hope to write a quick review of RH 9 soon so check back soon

Last night end up at the LUG/IP meeting held at the library. It was a good meeting attended by people who actually work with computers and Linux. Not just a bunch of script kiddies. They were showing off web log analyzers. So after the meeting I went right home and set up webalizer on bilancio.org. I also added some good links for the greatest and longest running Sci-Fi show ever….Doctor Who.

Other then that not much going on today. Just doing allot of little things on the servers that I have been putting off.