<< February 23, 2005 >>
disappearing suns turn into new days

the guy at the genius bar took a couple minutes from his busy schedule to put a new tab key on my laptop. without even checking for my applecare, or sending it back to california for a week! also, i managed to escape without buying any new iPods, although i did get a new iPod remote (i think i'm on my 517th remote so far. i use the earbud headphones as disposable earplugs).

my mac mini finally arrived yesterday, and installing os x server on it was a snap. unfortunately, my ex-ldap serving linux box might have to get reinstalled, as it makes me change my root password every time i log in, and i can't figure out why. none of the other nodes (which all use the mini as their ldap server) have this problem. i'm too old to spend any more time debugging pam.

the os x server admin tools are pretty ok so far. like ye old helix setup tools, they use the native config formats. faced with no import functionality, i just copied my bind config files over from my linux box and they worked. and the ldap stuff is just openldap, so i should be able to have it replicate to a linux box with no troubles. sadly the one thing i can't do is configure static dhcp entries, so i will still need to edit text files in linux for a while.

a new printer arrives on friday, to replace the one i took with me to college. the old one still kind of works, after getting a new ink thing and a jetdirect thing, except that it sometimes grabs like 50 sheets at a time and gets stuck or doesn't print that page well. the cpu and ram in the new printer are comparable to the pc i took to college. i expect no less than to be shocked and awed.

posted by jacob around February 23, 2005