On Thursday the OS X server seemed stable and everything on it was fine, so served out all the shares and hoped for the best. Avalon had been stable for the most part, but I had heard a few complaints about "freezing" so best to get it out of the way before problems happened. Apparently something was up with mac authentication through MacAdmin so taking off Avalon from the list caused students to be unable to log in. My staff account could log in fine, but not my student one. I got a temporary fix in place which allowed logins but took a bit longer that evening, and Mike and I sorted it out in the morning. Not sure why the other AFP auth wasn't working, but it seems the combination of OS 9, and OS X server, and macadmin still needs plaintext password (the old AFP server always required them too, so oh well). Totally shut off AFP and AppleTalk on Avalon which should help the load over the next couple weeks. I think Thursday wins for the week with 1022 Incidents modified. I didn't look on Friday, but the Help Desk seemed somewhat more relaxed, so... Friday was Arby's for lunch, and we even dragged jherter out with us. Always a good time, if slightly on the more expensive side. Avalon seemed pretty stable all day, and the disks didn't show much IO wait which is a good sign. After work hung out around Bethel a bit and fixed an app that had been broken on my site for quite a while. My cousin called and will be coming through the cities this next week and hasn't seen my place yet, so they're gonna stay here for a night. That should be fun, as I haven't seen them since Christmas. Then I tried to talk brooke into leaving the mass voicemail about people being put in "The Dungeon" VLAN for misbehaving computers using TextEdit and the BadNews voice. She didn't go for it for some reason (although the sample "you have been burninated" message sounded pretty funny)... Then Dave and I headed down to Station-4 (their website currently sucks) for a Moxie Bliss concert. A bit too loud, although mixed better than a lot I've been to. Can't complain for free though. We left shortly after they finished since we hadn't heard of the others and even after calling and bugging him Ross wasn't gonna show up. Excessive caffeine was already necessary anyways, so it was time to call that a night. Saturday was sleep in a lot day, which is always nice. Read up on the tech stuff a bit and fixed some speed issues in my newsreader (mainly involving indexing and cleaning out around 60k old articles). Then realized it was definitely time to go grocery shopping since the fridge was starting to get empty. Got back and found out the SSL wildcard cert for work had expired - oops. Apparently problems with getting the right name on them didn't get worked out in time. Oh well, at least I'm not responsible for buying the certs (except one which has the correct name and has been in place for a while without any hastle for probably a month now). The SSL cert people sure seem to do a pretty poor job for how much they charge though. Finished off the evening by watching Brotherhood of the Wolf. That genre line on IMDB really is about right (it's listed under 6). Basically think Sleepy Hollow meets The Matrix. They made extensive use of time distortion on the visuals (both speeding up and freezeframe), usually to good effect. One scene made me think of the Burly Brawl in Reloaded quite a bit down to even the coat, which is funny considering it came out two years earlier... I grabbed it through Netflix on a recommendation so didn't catch language thing at first. The only talking by the people where you can see their faces in the first fifteen minutes or so is a couple sentences, so suddenly I realized that it was actually doing the dubbed version by default. I don't get that - who in their right mind defaults to a dubbed track? A quick drop to the menu resulted in finding there was a french track and english subtitles (which seem to have some thought put into them), which was much better. Good movie, but the french origin definitely shows. The good outweighs the bad though and I'd recommend it.