10:51 PM - (no subject)
I just had a dreadful day. I had an x-ray of my back done at the hospital to determine if there was any damage from my car accident in 2005. My back has been quite sore since the accident. I'm not sure if there is a problem with my back or merely that I've been much more tense since the accident combined with longer periods on the computer. I've also founded an open source project which takes most of my time during this period.
If the results are negative for injury, I'll have to go get my back "cracked". (i love scary quotes)
Caryn's family had a last minute event in Lansing. We just spent 4 hours in transit or at the event. Her grandmother is building a house in PA and moving there soon. She's in Flint right now. Most of her church friends are in the Lansing and Flint areas. Their faith is very different. They don't like TV, dress extremely conservatively and think everyone else is a heathen. It is an offshoot of christianity best I can tell. They don't like churches and are not that organized. Their members have to get married twice (once legally). We stuck out like sore thumbs. We saw Caryn's aunt and uncle today. It has been a few years.
I spent 45 minutes trying to debug a problem NAT'ing the open computer lab in the CS department. I forgot to turn on the firewall. Very stupid of me. How would natd divert the traffic if it can't be diverted from anywhere... lol. Now the lab is behind an OS X server with NFS/AFP for imaging, a caching DNS server, and a very loose firewall ruleset. I'd like to improve that but triv erased my rules on the white board. I'll have to think them up again.
I spoke with Jessica a bit today. She was updating software in one of the side labs. Nothing real exciting, but it's been awhile since I chatted with her. Kirk was talking to a former student employee who now works for ICT as a security person. He was very interested in the build cluster in terms of security and that concerns me. I think we'll have to harden that.
KDE is failing to build with our 0.1.1 tagged ports tree. I'm a bit worried about that and trying to work around it as much as possible. Caryn convinced me some people will be upset.