working on it

I'm working on a new install on our web server box right now. I gotta say, the Debian 3.1 net install is leagues ahead of the 3.0 install. At this rate we'll have net services up and running again by the weekend. Maybe tomorrow, even, tho' I don't want to schedule work for other people who are not me who get to do the apache setup.

(Plus it's got another 90 minutes or so download time for the module set it wants to suck down. Much slower than off CD. But also more current. Tradeoffs, tradeoffs. At least they have nice fast servers. 91.9KB/s average so far, which is pretty good.)

Sunday's miles: 2.0
Monday's miles: 2.1
Tuesday's token: 0.5
Wednesday's token: 0.1
Thursday's miles: 2.5
Miles out of Hobbiton: 547.3
Miles out of Rivendell: 87.5
Miles to Lothlórien: 378.9

The best line so far in this cookbook I have borrowed from the library:

Remove eyes. Work in water as it may splash.

Yay! Also, for longestnight, I made sukiyaki from scratch following its instructions. "Quick and easy" not so much. Well, really, mostly not "quick." The stove-top portion was fast, but the prep took forever. I suppose, though, the actual cooking was easy, so they were only half wrong. ^_^ The most difficult part - where they suggested you might buy pre-mix - was the frying sauce, and I really don't understand what was supposed to be difficult about it. Measure, mix, use. Done.

Anyway, hopefully we'll have web again by the weekend. Fingers crossed.

Hm. Personal savings negative again - fifth straight month.

yes, things are a little random at the murknet right now

we're working on it. more particularly, we're working on lodestone and our router. fucking with the routing software is a learning experience.

And nightmares came to them from the mysterious...

murkworks.net 3.1r2 on kernel 2.4.27 apache 2.0 series web services online, motherfuckers! At least for the moment. It's still b0rken and lame - no server-side scripting, virtual hosts may (and may not) be a little weird, and if you're using php, we might need to talk - but it's up for non-PHP pages.

It's also behind newly enhansed firewalling. It was firewalled before, but now it's moreso. If something other than server-side scripting doesn't work that used to, tell me; I erred further on the side of paranoia this time, I think and hope.

annathepiper is working on the scripting issues more this weekend, and we've both been doing some ad hoc touchup. Hopefully we won't get p0wned at least for another few months. :-p

And to celebrate

Oak