Nerhood Weblog

When I started writing this blog, 3 months and 100 posting ago, I didn’t know where I was going with it, or even if I would keep it up. I’m still not sure what deeper meaning (if any) this blog has had on me or others. From a practical perspective, it has been a place [...]

We spent the weekend in Pittsburgh visiting family. Fern and her sister wanted to get together before either one was not allowed to travel (Fern’s sister is also due with their second child in the beginning of June). Everyone had a good time, Ellie got to play with her cousin Seth. Saturday night the two [...]

I think I mentioned a week or so ago that I got an older Sony Vaio Z505R laptop working again. It’s a 333MHz box so I thought that I’d install Linux on it and maybe replace the box on which this blog is running. I decided to go with White Box Linux (I’ll post more [...]

This weekend we will take another major step in our effort to migrate our GroupWise system to Exchange 2003, as we install the API gateway on our production GroupWise server.
As I posted here in February, we had made significant progress and had gotten our the basics of email and calendar access passing correctly through [...]

I realized that I hadn’t provide an update on Dad’s arm. He got into see the doctor and they reviewed the x-rays. The long story short is that the two breaks are just cracks and that he is healing fine. They gave him a series of exercises to help regain strength and mobility. Dad if [...]

I finally got a haircut on the way from work last night. I was easily 3 or 4 weeks past due, and badly needed one. After getting home, eating some dinner and playing with Ellie (tag as usual), I finally got the primer coat of paint on some dry patching that we did when [...]

The German word zeitgeist means, literally, “time ghost,” figuratively meaning the “spirit of the time,” and search engine traffic can provide a peek at this. I installed the Search Referral Zeitgeist code which generates a list of search terms that were used to get to this weblog, check it out here. The larger the font [...]

I just downloaded my first song from Apple’s iTunes store. I didn’t have to pay for the song because I used one my free song that I got from the iTunes-Pepsi promotion. I really like the process and Apple’s store is well stocked and has some very nice features. For those that I curious [...]

Last night after we got Ellie to bed, Fern and I watched The Bourne Identity. It was a movie that we both had been wanting to see, and we finally got a chance (although we didn’t start it until 11PM so it made for a late night). Overall the movie was pretty enjoyable. It was [...]

Yesterday we traveled to Philadelphia to see friends and attend a birthday party. The day started off at the Please Touch Museum, a children’s museum specifically designed for children seven years and younger. While being a little pricy especially considering all the tolls we had to pay, it was a really well done [...]

I’m always forgetting where to put the new GeoIP database when I download it for awstats, so I figured that I’d document the process here:
Download the latest GeoIP.dat.gz database into /usr/local/share/GeoIP/ and unzip.

As we prep for our GroupWise to Exchange migration, we needed to remove an existing server from the network and reassign the remote access (PPTP) server to another machine. After doing that, one of our heavy remote access users is experiencing extremely slow connections. They are so slow that he can’t get anything done. We’re [...]

We have finally got our Exchange server installed on the production. This was the first major step on our GroupWise to Exchange migration. We still have a long way to go, but we’re moving forward. My application developer just finished writing a tool that will us to convert the GroupWise address book to a format [...]

Can you believe that there is a hidden reset switch on a laptop. I’ve had a Sony Viao laptop that won’t power-on. No matter what we did would get it work. I got out the volt meter to make sure that the power adapter was supplying power. Well I brought it into the office today, [...]

I finished Drowning World: A Novel of the Commonwealth a couple of nights ago. While it had one interesting plot twist, Foster’s formula is starting to get a little old and tired. I still enjoyed the book and it is easy reading so that makes it perfect for reading late a night or in short [...]