Sorry I’ve been away for a few days. I’ve been stressed out of my head about our dying server and the lame bookstore/computer store which has failed (again) to deliver the new hard drive we need in order to rebuild it. Tomorow, I’m going to yank a drive out of one of the new Gateways (they’re just sitting around in boxes until we get access to the new lab–whenever that might happen). Of course, those are probably crappy Quantum Fireball drives like the one that crashed on lithe back in July and the one that’s crashing on ubets now.
Speaking of poor turnaround time, the good folks at blogger have spent weeks but still not fixed the publishing problem which has haunted many of us since the server upgrade. And, asside from a few posts to the troubleshooting discussion board, they haven’t bothered to inform us what progress is being made on the problem.
On the better side of things, I began working up a little webpage for linux enthusiasts. It’s bascially an alphabetical guide to Unix/Linux terms and commands, peppered with tips on this and that. It will be an ongoing project.
I’m still reading Rorty’s Philosophy and Social Hope and I’m really liking it. I’ve been taking notes. Maybe I need a Rorty blog(!). Today I started a book on Samba (the networking suite, not the Brazilian dance). Once this server evil is a thing of the past, I want to get back to working on the PHP/MySQL stuff. I can’t even express to my coworkers how much of a positive impact that duo is going to have on the way we do things.