Howdy there. I’m blogging live from the XM_Coldaire WiFi network at the XMission colocation facility in downtown Salt Lake City.

I love that I can just walk in here, flash my fingerprint and enter my ultra-secret code, and work on a machine. It’s awesome.

One of the Iodynamics servers here at XMission has needed an upgrade to Fedora Core 1 or 2 for a while now. It’s a web server and it’s been running Red Hat 9. RH9 didn’t have a real good Apache and mod_perl package in it so I’m upgrading.

While the upgrade is proceeding, I’m surfin the web and blogging away. The only thing missing from this experience is a bowl of sunflower seeds and some Diet Coke.

Whoa. This installation is screaming by fast. The hardware is only a Pentium-III 866Mhz, but the hard drives are Ultra-160 SCSI drives that spin at 10,000 RPM. I think it’s only going to take 10-12 minutes to install Fedora Core 2.

Of course, once it’s installed, we’ll wait a half hour or so while all the updates install. FC2 has a lot of them because, IMO, it just wasn’t ready for prime time when it was released.

Changes of plans

I had planned, anticipated, looked-forward to, longed for accompanying Sons Of Nothing as they journey to Washington state to perform two shows next Thursday and Friday, but I’ve had an abrupt change of plans.

Today, our good friends at Guru Labs called. They’re in a bit of a bind and need someone to teach a Linux system administration course in Orlando, Florida next week.

Honestly, we need the money right now, so I can’t say no. But I couldn’t do it without making some arrangements for Thom and the band. My brother-in-law— and great friend— Adam came to the rescue and volunteered to take my place as technical minion for the band.

What a guy

Woops. I was busy blogging and missed the Fedora Core 2 installation prompting me to insert disc 2. Wow. That was fast.7

Anyway, back to this Orlando business. There are two tropical storms (could be hurricanes) on their way to Florida right now. They’re SUPPOSED to be finished doing their work by Saturday and I’ll arrive on Sunday. Whew.

Whoa! Now it’s asking for disc 3!

Well, this is going to be finished soon and then I need to restore stuff... so I better sign off now.