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2004/02/24
 23:44:35
Monday consisted of a lot of WebDAV stuff, since we decided t try and implement and drop AFP for home directories in one week. The timeline is pretty aggressive, but I think it's definitely doable. Got the server up and running, and did some testing. Also did some poking around with Windows and domain controllers replicating across firewalls. Seems if they can sorta see each other but not really so fail they don't like to retry until they reboot. Oh well. After work helped Betsy get her site up and running with Movable Type. After that pretty much did nothing until way to late. Tuesday I woke up to many many pages. Turns out rwho on the netsaint machine got stuck on something and stopped processing incomming packets, meaning it considered everything else down. It's a problem when the load on every server is unknown but the servers still show as up so the system doesn't find dependencies to consolidate. Managed to get it all back up and running after disabling paging to prevent further excessive annoyances. Hopefully I can get some time to do paging limits soon. Spent a decent chunk of the day building a server, which went pretty well. Also changed monitoring for viruses slightly to handle suspected viruses through the email server and request removal from the network after enough of them. We had a case of MyDoom.f today, for which the email server rejected/dropped all the emails, but only by general characteristics and not knowing what it actually was. Also did a bit of research on some other suspect machines after finding out about a compromised machine. Windows boxes are just annoying... Then there's the whole WebDAV documentation piece, which hopefully I can finish up tomorrow morning so we can announce, but we'll see. Pretty much just relaxing after work again. Found lots of interesting debug info in my phone. Like it uses 2mA at idle, unless the backlight is on. Then it uses 102mA. Given that during a call it was averaging around 250mA without the backlight (350mA with), it looks like running for long times with the backlight will drain the battery significantly compared to standby. Good thing to know. I also managed to hang my laptop's kernel by probing at a USB serial adapter. Oops, won't be doing that again. Yea, that's the kind of stuff I do for fun - I guess I'm a bit of a geek. :)