24 Aug 2001 taw   » (Journeyer)

Been awhile folks (as if someone is reading). I've (a) been busy, (b) been a bit burned out, and (c) been lazy.

Work

We had our big Red Hat Network release a little while ago. It went fairly smoothly. The tracebacks and feedback (in the negative) have been minimal. There was a bit of firefighting at first, but 90% of it was squashed in the first 12 hours.

Been working on this and that lately. Really. Testing, small improvements, and bugfixing. Wrote a automated report tool (cron job) to test the DB as the customer sees it (i.e syncronization issues). Worked on proxy stuff, and a bit of client work even.

Customer feedback has been very helpful, and we really do hope to improve the service.

Home

I have *not* spent enough time with my girlfriend, Monica. Hopefully, now that the greater majority of RHN is implemented (this version) and functioning, we can slow down to normal levels of activity --- non-withstanding side projects I am always involved in.

Stephanie, my niece had her 5th birthday last weekend. Wow. How fast time flies. She'll be a teenager in the blink of an eye. Her family (my brother's) just moved from Italy to DC, so now they are only 4.5-5.5 hours away (dependent upon traffic). This is the first time in 10+ years that my whole family has been within driving distance. It's nice.

Other

Side-projects have been diverting my attention lately.
xboids, the xscreensaver boids program has been rewritten something like 2 times. I am trying to refresh my C skills with it, whilst doing something cool. It is nearly complete in the sense I can submit it, but I want to improve it a bit more. Eventually I want to openGL the thing.

A bunch of us got together recently and discussed helping out the folks working on the K12LTSP project. From their press-release:

K12LTSP is an easy to install, Linux based terminal server package designed for schools. It comes ready to run with lots of programs for classroom use. It works with low maintenance, diskless workstations that are immune to viruses and mischievous student tampering. K12LTSP is based on RedHat 7.1 (www.redhat.com), StarOffice (tm) 5.2 from Sun Microsystems (www.sun.com/staroffice) and the Linux Terminal Server Project (www.ltsp.org).
So... being a Red Hat Network guy, I have been toying with their iso's and uploaded the headers into our network and have been testing some of our "software-to-come" with that. Looks doable. And neat.

Until next time...

GPG

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