Bryan’s Web (.net)

It’s now officially the last two weeks of class before spring break. That means the pictures on the website thing will unfortunately take a backseat to me getting good grades as I get inundated with work before the end of the quarter. Sorry, guys. In other news, I’m now running RC2 (Build 3790) of Windows XP Professional 64-bit edition. The ol’ Athlon64 is finally getting to stretch its legs! It’s far from perfect- SMB shares aren’t working. I can access stuff on other computers, but you can’t get shares on this computer working. Also, no domain logons (even though I was able to join our domain). I keep getting RPC errors. That’s the biggest problem. The other thing I’ve noticed is that shell extensions, like those for winzip and textpad aren’t working (where they add options to the right-click menu). That seems like it’s probably due to a registry arrangement that differs from Win32 XP Pro. Other than those caveats, it’s working great. I’m going to try to get by without running the 32 bit version on this computer again. However, I have yet to try any games in the 64 bit version, so I may be forced to revert to 32 bits in order to finish KoTOR. Anyway, it’s late and I’m really tired, so here’s a picture of me skiing (too bad the original turned out blurry) taken by my brother Jeff.

Today is my Mom’s birthday, and I wanted to wish her a happy birthday. So I whipped up a quick birthday fax on my laptop (complete with cheesy birthday cake clipart) and faxed it to my Mom’s office through my cellphone. While I was typing my laptop was balancing precariously on my leg and I accidentally misspelled “Birthday” as “Birthaday”. The worst thing is, I saw the red underline in Word signifying a misspelled word and didn’t check it, figuring I couldn’t have misspelled “Birthday” and it was probably some stupid capitalization error, since I tend to Over-Capitalize Every Word I Write (it’s not quite that bad ). When I talked to my Mom later and she brought the error to my attention, she joked about the quality of my Ohio State education. At least I’m not an english major.

Anyway, happy birthday, Mom. Can you bake me a cake to celebrate? (just kidding.)

Right. Well. I know that everybody out there (all 5 of you) want me to get the pictures thing working. Specifically, Megan and Jeff. Well, I’m not sure how I want to implement it- the way I had it working on the old website it was really tedious for me to put up anything new. A lot of that pain was because I had to go through and put in a comment on each one. Did you enjoy those, or do you think it would be okay for me to make the new photos visual-only? Should I allow you guys to comment on each photo? Leave me somefeedback so I know what you think- I’m still not sure when I’m going to get around to coding all of this, anyway.

Linux is more than just a cute little penguin.

It’s a way to (legally) run a stable network from a single box. And I finally got it configured to do what I want.

Here’s how our network looks:
All of the clients are Windows XP.
We have a dual-celeron 366 on an Abit BP6 (with registered RAM, actually) built inside a suitcase. It’s running fedora core 2, kept updated by yum, and doing:

• Running a Windows Domain through Samba
• Running a DHCP server to hand out IPs
• Running bind to handle the DNS work (which I might add, the DHCP server integrates with)
• Running a custom mix of scripts that control IPTables, which handles Network Address Translation and our Firewall

…and I got it all working! Huzzah!

PS if you don’t know what I’m talking about, then you probably wouldn’t be interested in the explanation anyway.

The title of this post is in a top-secret code that nobody will ever be able to decipher!

Unless, of course, you’ve met Marc. Then you’ll be on the in-side; knowing what’s up.

Anyway, Marc, I’m making this post for you because you say I never update. HAHA! I’ve proven you wrong!

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PS Marc is a tool.