Thoughts and Ramblings

Well, I put the server back today, started her up, and watched the chaos begin. My first issue was running software update. The first run crashed, wonderful. I ran it again, and eventually got it all done. Then the guest account was still not completely locked down, so it was going up and down while the users gripped. After that, I looked at the web logs. There were several requests per second for the copyrighted material that cause the server to go down in the first place. I changed the .htaccess on the dir so that instead of presenting these users with a password, it returned a 410, GONE! Maybe the idiots will take a hint. I change it so that it logs the referrer URL as well, and found that this was linked from some ftp site. I may change it so it presents them with a page that says in not so nice terms to get lost.

Not much has been going on here. Fire has kept me a bit busy since I decided that it would be nice to go through and push for a 1.1 version relatively soon. Yahoo added to the fun because as of last night they decided they were going to block third party clients. That block lasted one day, we are back up and running.

I have decided that I am not going to live in this apartment again next year. The guy who lives behind me plays his guitar at all hours of the night, and the guys across from me have cars whose stereo you can hear a mile off. On top of that, they sit in the parking lot listening to their horrible music and do so at all hours of the night. On the plus side, the apartment has installed sun screens over the windows, so it should help with the heat. Time will tell.

It now has been over a week since I have written here. I guess that has been since not much of interest has happened over the past week. Mostly I have spent time talking to some of the other developers and that is just about it.

My advisor suggested some more methods I could implement. I guess I should get down to writing them :)

I just finished a proposal for a new architecture in Fire to handle the accounts and services. We will see how it is accepted by the other devs.

It has been a while since I have written in here. One of the more interesting things that has happened since was Sunday afternoon. Erin was up for an ultimate tournament, and so I went out there to watch her play. In the process, I managed to get a bit of a sunburn. Most of it being my nose. Oh well, I will survive. It was a nice day outside and we did have some time to spend together along with her friend Lauren. Now she has finally picked up the rest of her stuff. Maybe I will see her again in a week or two.