MRTG Fun! I spent the better part of last night and this evening wrestling with MRTG to get it to monitor the bandwidth of my servers, T-1, and the BayStack 350T switches. If I had only realized that /mrtg/bin/cfgmaker did the trick. Fun, eh?
A fitting end. John Gotti Is Dead at 61; Ex-Mafia Boss Courted Limelight. John J. Gotti, who had a flamboyant reign as a Mafia boss, died today at a federal prison hospital in Springfield, Mo. He was 61. By Selwyn Raab. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]
Wow! U.S. Arrests American Accused of Planning ‘Dirty Bomb’ Attack. Attorney General John Ashcroft said today that authorities had arrested an American citizen involved with Al Qaeda who was part of a plot to launch a radioactive-bomb attack. [New York Times: National]
Wire. Re-wire. Wire… House Lan now moved over to new T-1 connection. The Rack has been rewired to accomodate CSU/DSU and Router. Moved UPSs higher in the rack to accomodate easier wiring. Loads of fun. Every try to lift an APC SmartUPS 1400 by yourself and screw it in. Ouch!
Moved over about 8 sites now to the new server here on my end of the T-1 (khazad-dum). Mail Greeting seems to be running fine. Probably will move everything except ezyads as I don’t feel like mucking with Sendmail just yet.
Test publication to new server. Test Test.
Interesting. The Improbable Presidency. For a man who came to the White House with little foreign experience and a distrust of Washington, President Bush finds himself directing a perilous war and managing the biggest overhaul of the federal government in more than 50 years. [New York Times: Opinion]
Wow. Same basic page layout for 7 years – gonna get an upgrade. Yahoo to give homepage a makeover [Geeknews]