Slow day

Got woken up by a client early this morning and that screwed my whole sleep schedule up.

Moved my two name servers over to new IPs. All that’s left to do now is the firewall itself, and oddly I don’t think that’ll be a very big problem. All done remotely, too. Maybe I’ll end up posting my checklist for changing IPs on a Red Hat box some day (or at request).

Did various other things today. Nothing much to talk about, really. Someone gave me a good idea: put my SSH identity files on my USB disk with my PGP keys.

Talked with ardent about doing wireless between our two apartments. I suspect I may end up building the cantenna. Need to get the N connectors from FA&B, but everything else sounds pretty stock. Sounds easy to fuck this antenna up, but we’ll see. I’m concerned about figuring how to aim it, too. I’m considering that our apartments should be parallel to each other, and then using a laser pointer to determine the angle between my apartment and his. Should allow for more accurate aiming. Luckily we have the same floor plans in our apartments, and our two coat closets face each other on what is possibly the least obstructed path between our apartments. He wanted to find out more about Linksys (or other brands) AP bridging, and if an AP doing bridging can serve normal wireless clients too. I was dubious. Need to do research.

Hopefully more of interest tomorrow.

[Amusingly, posting this entry failed originally because I forgot to change the IPs for the name virtual hosts in Apache's configurations. perl -pi -e 's/foo/bar/g' is your friend.]