The hunt for the perfect house will be continueing this Saturday. When we last looked (two weeks prior) we found two places we liked but they were a bit more expensive than we wanted. Hopefully we'll find something we like more in our ideal price range this Saturday.

Did a keysigning last night with a few folks, including Raul Miller, whose existance was questioned by some. :) Brian Almeida and Aaron Ucko were there as well, we're slowly getting all of the local Debian developers to form a complete mesh. There are a few sets of signatures that still need to happen for it to be complete.

The Debian syslog-ng package has a knack for driving me insane it seems. I don't know that I will *ever* be able to use the actual package. There used to be the issue with klogd but now I think that's finally fixed and all of a sudden this message-splitting junk comes up. Talk about enough to drive you insane. Add to that that the maintainer doesn't seem to like to actually close bugs, even when it seems evident that they've been fixed, and you've got a combination that makes me very reluctant to ever want to even try and use the package again. Oh well, maybe after this latest round of stuff the syslog-ng package in Debian will be useable.

Summer semester is over for me, has been for a couple weeks actually. Got my grades a little while ago, not too bad this round, A in Numerical Methods and a C in Statistics. Fall semester is starting in a couple of weeks (the 26th). I'm taking 12 credits, all of the actual class time packed into evenings Mon-Wed each week. I'll update my 'College' project with the actual classes/times. One nice thing is that this will be the first semester where I only have CS classes. I'm hoping that makes things easier. :) Megan and I are going house-hunting this saturday, I expect that to be fun. We're also going on vacation starting Thursday next week and will be back the following Sunday. We're going camping at Natural Bridge here in Virginia.

I'll probably also be releasing a new version of ipt_recent which is just a small change to allow you to set the permissions on the /proc/net/ipt_recent/* files. I also upgraded ns2 to a 486 and put it into a rack-mount case and put that into the rack. It looks pretty good. I tried to put phoenix into one of the same rack-mount cases but it turns out that the motherboard is too big so that isn't going to happen right yet. I'll probably buy a new rack-mount case for it later. For now I'll probably put it back into the case it was in and see about setting it up to be the 'user' server, perhaps with an ircd running on it.