Josh Olson’s Blog

This morning I spent some time installing acroread (Adobe Acrobat Reader for Linux) on a server, I was having troubles until I added the Red Hat extras channel to the group that the server resides in.

I golfed a 60 (24 over par) at PLGC today, my game is starting to improve. Afterwards I had lunch at the Pilgrim River steak house.

This afternoon consisted of wiring and programming PXEs for the GeoWall. I also installed some drivers, and fixed the grub boot loader.

I’m heading to Marquette tonight (Danielle is graduating tomorrow) and then leaving for Minneapolis on Sunday morning.

I signed up for a golf course for the first track of the summer. Today I processed my student bill, which required me to complete the following steps:

• Print my bill
• Have my supervisor sign it
• Have HR approve and sign it
• Take the twice signed bill to the cashier office

While I was there, I noticed that they had a business card, but instead of a name, it listed the following information.

To make payments by MasterCard/VISA/Discover,
go to: https://www.very.long.url/with/very/long/weird.Strings_INit

I’m considering recommending the following:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URL_redirection

After lunch with Josh & Nancy in the DOW atrium I resolved a few rt tickets, learned about Magmasoft, the license server associated with it, and submitted the mtusysadm minutes from last week’s meeting.

I’m looking forward to Red Hat training in Minneapolis next week (7 - 11 May).

Stacked, racked, and kicked our first 2950 today, it’s going to be an IDL cruncher for one of our departments. They’ve got a fancy new swing arm in back that keeps the cable management arm from swinging out too far. I spent some time customizing a kickstart file for flexruns, there were a few quirks, but everything appears functional now.

Flexruns is currently using RHEL4U4 as our campus RHN proxy is still not RHEL5 compatible.

Josh Myles has an RPM for IDL, it works great as long as you remember to install the i386 version of xorg-x11-deprecated-libs.

# up2date xorg-x11-deprecated-libs –arch=i386

Modified eecn-vpn1 /samba/ configuration files, as well as the rest for future
samba daemons.

Joined eecn-vpn1 to the domain, it’s now authenticating against kerberos.

Moved /samba/common configuration directory to cfengine, wow my first cfengine
powered production service.

Created a few account exceptions, checked some things out on the abyss.

Had lunch with Josh, Nancy, & James. Learned about praising cheese.

Still practicing Limoncelli’s To Do & time management techniques, still
haven’t read his book.

Created a new nagios service group for our routers (called “network”), nagios
should now page me when it loses the ability to talk to either subnet.

Started organizing the kitchen in the new house, it’s finally starting to
resemble a kitchen. The refrigerator is old & loud, I hope the landlord
replaces it after a few rent payments / complaints.

Installed wordpress last night - this will be my weblog.

Overall a good day, finally feel like I’m accomplishing something.