Thursday the screensaver issue came up. Seems some people don't like entering their password more than once a day or so. Seeing as I probably type in a password for something a hundred times a day, I don't have a whole lot of sympathy, but we'll see what happens. Figured out some roaming profile as well as guest printing problems. I spent the last couple hours of the day finally getting around to resetting a bunch of handheld computers, which was a nice break. Friday was a pretty normal day. For lunch a bunch of us went to
Eddington's since
brooke managed to not have class over lunch. Got some people who don't go to lunch often out, which was cool (still not sure why the guy who lives in Chicago was there - I mean, Eddington's is good, but...). Finished up more stuff that had been waiting for a while, and even got
the hardware side of a new server put together and the RAID configured. After work I added an virtualhost to
yafiygi.com for the domainname
sitefinder.verisign.com (I bet most of you see where this is going). Then I set up a DNS server
which just does the usual lookups (I was nice and used the local servers as forwarders) but with that zone defined and pointing to the server hosting
http://yafiygi.com/. Now if I (or anyone else using that server) hit a non-existant domain while this whole wildcard redirecting to sitefinder thing is still going on a random web site comes up instead. :) After that a bunch of us (many of the same people who went to lunch) met and went to
The Cheesecake Factory followed by hanging out and watching TV at
brooke's place. Since the wait for food was over an hour, we wandered around the mall and visited the
Apple
store for a while. We spent time looking at the new powerbooks, and
Dave and I had a little fun with a couple of the salespeople. We started complaining about the one button mouse and about needing a third button, and when we started talking about linux PPC and one of them says "Oh, geeks" and they sorta wandered off. I think they sent another sales guy over though because he was pretty geeky and we ended up having an interesting conversation
about scalable user interfaces and resolution independence (them being an Apple thing according to him, ignoring the fact that some unix stuff is already going that way too). Ended up leaving
schdav.org up on some of the computers too... While we were at dinner spending way too much money and getting way too much food,
Paul had an interesting encounter with on old friend. You'll have to ask him about it sometime. :) After all that I just wanted
to sleep, but ended up talking a bit since my parents were leaving for a few days and after that ended up making a little
frontend with frames for my random redirector at
yafiygi.com and also
weeding out some bad links (I only spent an hour or so on it before we went out). Saturday was sleep day though. Didn't really do
any real work other than
answer a couple quick questions about Appletalk. Read some more stuff on
AVS Forum... Finally started catching up on
Netflix though. Watched
Mallrats which is a funny movie. Filmed right here in the Twin Cities for the most part, although the credits say "on location in Canada". I guess to us
Paul lives in Canadia, to them we do... Then watched the
JoeBuck favorite
The Boondock Saints. I think I liked that one better, but I'm not sure how much of it was that the soundtrack was clean and not bugging my ears.
I liked the music choices for both of them, and the storyline for Boondock Saints is really interesting. And now here I am trying to remember what I did for the past couple days. Makes me think too hard - 3 days back is too far to remember. :)
OK, link fixed now...