Nerhood Weblog

It has been a tough week, for some reason Ellie has decided to start the using the floor, blankets, or couch instead of the potty. So we’ve been cleaning up messing, having long talks and numerous timeouts. We can’t figure out what is going on, and she is upset by it, but very sorry after [...]

After 2.5 days of reading and researching Anti-Virus tools for linux, I finally got everything worknig today on the box that I’m building at work. I ended up using ClamAV an OpenSource anti-virus tool, with amavisd-new as the wrapper to integrate with our postfix configuration. I did not want to use amavisd’s spamassassin integration so [...]

Well the jury is still out. Fern got her phone working. Mine works as well, but the saga of poor signal quality in my office continues. The phone sometime switchs from Cingular to Cingular Extend which from a little research means that it is in roaming mode. The good news is that I can at [...]

Well we finally broke down and got new cell phones tonight. Fern’s cell broke, and mine has been basically useless at the office (no signal). After much searching, we went with Cingular and their SuperHome Rollover Family plan. For the same amount of money we’re paying now we getting a pretty good deal, and after [...]

I submitted my site to be searched by a number of search engines including Google. Things were going great. The GoogleBot crawled my site, and got a lot of the pages. People were coming to the site via searches from Google. I thought this is cool!
Google continues to search the site almost daily, but [...]

As I mentioned yesterday we were supposed to get freezing rain and ice last night, well we got enough that I needed to warm my car before scraping but the roads were basically fine. The weatherman now predict that we’ll get more freezing rain today. We’ll just have to see.
On a side note, it has [...]

I shoveled snow last night at about 11:30. It was really pretty, and the snow was all powder. I got up at 6 AM this morning, and shoveled again. I was still the first person out in our neighborhood. The roads weren’t too bad when I left for work 7:30. We’re supposed to have sleet [...]

I’m in the process of building a new Linux server at the office (Dell PowerEdge 1650). I’m building it using Fedora. Given that this box is going to do a lot, I figured I’d keep a log of all of the things that I have done so that it will be easier to troublehoot as [...]

I baked again today (that was after stopping at five stores with Ellie). Today I baked some scones which are wonderful, light, flaky, and sweet. I also baked the bread that baked last week. This time, I did the short method. It has a completely different flavor and texture, still good but quite different, but [...]

Today is a busy day, I’ve already spent 2+ hours helping friends move into their new house (they still have more to do but they have plenty of help), I’ve just finished my second shower of the day. Now we’re having a small family gathering for Chuck (my brother-in-law) before he leaves for Dover AFB [...]

Oh to be a DINK (Dual Income No Kids) again. I’ve really gotten into watching Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040 lately. BGC 2040 is an anime series, that I currently watch on Comcast’s On Demand service (kind of like pay-per-view but you can watch at any time and in this case for free). This means that [...]

Chuck got word that he has to report on Wednesday, January 28, 2004 for duty. He will be stationed at Dover AFB for the first 90 days, then after that they do not know where they will be sent. Please keep Chuck and our family in your prayers.

There was one thing that I forgot to mention about the reivews that I did last week. I had my review as well, and now offically the CADD support group reports through me. This doesn’t really mean that much additional work. The CADD Manager who runs her group now reports to me; we have and [...]

Last night we went to our first Faith Stepping Stones (FSS) meeting. The FSS is a program at our church where 8 times throughout our children’s lives we get up in front of the congregation and give our children a blessing. The first blessing is for 3 year olds. So last night we had [...]

When installing Dell OpenManage on a PowerEdge 1650 with Fedora you need to make sure that you have also installed the compat-libstdc++ package.
Also you need to do the following which I found here, Grab the j2se 1.3.1_10 from sun.com (I tried the 1.4 version with no success) and replace /usr/lib/dell/openmanage/jre/lib/i386/libjava.so with the libjava.so from the [...]