:: 30-Sep-1998 06:24 (Wednesday) ::

If you have any files, news headers, etc dealing with either
Team #978 (978 is an 1 in Massachusetts)
— borc5@hotmail.com
or
Team Supergeeks
— dr_skipper@hotmail.com

Please contact me immediately.

:: 30-Sep-1998 03:42 (Wednesday) ::

Today managed to be a pretty good day, goal-wise. I got the majority
of the tasks on my task-list completed and things seem to be running
quite well.

1. I kept my boss happy at hfdirect and earned another day’s pay.
2. I’ve completely written the letter to be mailed to the IRS and
have complied all the necessary enclosures with the exception
of the final Form 1023, which should be a breeze to finish as
it differs only slightly from the last one I sent. Should go
out the door tomorrow.
3. After wrestling with apache for several hours, it looks as if
I’ve convinced mod_auth_mysql to play well with php3.0.3 and
the new httpd is installed and in service. It’s in bovine’s
hands now to do something with them.
5. InterNIC change request was submitted.
8. I feel worlds better now than I did this morning, although
I’m still reluctant to eat much more than saltines and 7Up.

So, what item’s have not been completed:

4. I’ve sluffed this one off onto dbaker. Not my problem now.

6. Statsbox-II didn’t get touched today, and probably won’t again
tomorrow. I would like to mention that last Friday we received an
additional 64Mb RAM for Statsbox-II thanks to the generous donation
of Geoffrey Faivre-Malloy. Thanks, G-Man!

7. Still no idea what to buy paulf for his birthday.

On a completely unrelated note, assuming nothing major explodes, I’m
going to be in attendance at the 1998 Atlanta Linux Showcase on October
23-24. I’m still not certain if I’ll be there on Friday and Saturday
or just on Saturday, but I’m going to swing for both days. If you’re
also going to be in town for the event, let me know… For further
details on the conference, see http://www.ale.org/showcase/

:: 30-Sep-1998 00:42 (Wednesday) ::

I’ve replaced the finger CGI with a new one written in perl. This one’s a
bit more functional and easier to maintain… same url as always.

Also, mapping.cgi has progressed nicely. For a full demo of features,
check out this url:

http://distributed.net/cgi/mapping.cgi?host=nodezero,rc5stats,chalmers.se

It does size changes and multihost mapping, and supports the creation of a
unique title by adding &title=Words+In+URL+Encoding to the url.

:: 29-Sep-1998 17:03 (Tuesday) ::

Today’s short-list. If I can accomplish these things, today will be
a resounding success (on order of priority):

o anything hfdirect.com throws at me
o draft and mail response to IRS
o Install mod_auth_mysql into apache without disturbing php
o resolve cow’s glib and silby’s binutil installation issues
o Submit mod forms to InterNIC.
o finally get around to benchmarking revised tot_team / uid code
on statsbox-ii.
o figure out what I’m going to buy paulf for his birthday — needs
to get in the mail soon to arrive in time.
o kick this damn flu.

:: 29-Sep-1998 10:29 (Tuesday) ::

A fine morning’s Snowboarding yesterday. I ache like a goodun today.

The x86 stuff has arrived from Dominic, but I’ve been to busy with
updating other bits of client code – and real work – to have a look
at it yet.

:: 29-Sep-1998 02:10 (Tuesday) ::

Lately, I’ve been fiddling around with a web-based tool for handling tech-
support mail. What I’m hoping is that all mail for [help/rc5help]@
distributed.net will filter into this utility, where any number of people
can then log in and reply to requests for help; in addition there would be
options for auto-magically sending/changing passwords, and other such
administrative tasks.

Crack on…

:: 28-Sep-1998 17:18 (Monday) ::

Back, after a trying tryst with an unyielding cast, this hitherto
.planless coder is not surprised to find much afoot at distributed.net.

…join us next week in an all-new episode as our heartful heroes
move on from the realm of ciphers and secrets to rulers and radians.

:: 28-Sep-1998 07:14 (Monday) ::

Cores and their integration, x86 and Alpha

Thats all I do folks.

:: 28-Sep-1998 04:23 (Monday) ::

Fixed an issue with the email block flusher not being able to handle
some MIME messages sent to it where the body contained nested
multipart/* sections.

:: 27-Sep-1998 23:24 (Sunday) ::

Currently projects at work are starting to slow down. I am available if needed, just contact me in non-irc manners.