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Miscellaneous events at a mansion
I finally heard from John, the paper millionaire of a dotcom. I haven't seen
or talked to him since his birthday [1] (in fact, no one really heard from
him since—he seemed to have just fallen off the face of the planet). I had
sent him an email asking if he could host DNS for conman.org and earlier in
the day finally got email from him.
He had no problem hosting DNS for me (well, me and Mark [2]). So this evening
I headed over to his house. [3]
The re-landscaping of the backyard is done. And his 8,000 gallon salt water
aquarium is nearly finished and the sound system throughout the house is
nearly done—the last of the installation is scheduled for tomarrow.
Mark and I worked on setting up DNS and the plan is for me to change the
nameserver records for conman.org to point to his server for primary, and
kill9.org [4] for secondary (which is my roommate's [5] colocated server).
He also handed me and Mark a Belkin Omni View Pro 8-Port switch. It allows
you to connect a single keyboard, monitor and mouse to eight PCs. To use it,
I'll need to rearrange the entire Computer Room but it will shut up Mark.
He's been on my case for using the Windows box to browse the web using
Internet Explorer. But the monitor on my Linux box is junk and IE on the
Windows box is faster and I like the way it handles bookmarks over Netscape.
Besides, the monitor on the Windows box is better (and I can't move it to the
Linux box because of a project I'm working on under Windows would be painful
on a smaller monitor).
But now I'll have no excuses.
[1]
gopher://gopher.conman.org/1Phlog:2000/08/05
[2]
http://www.conman.org/people/myg/
[3]
gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2000/04/29.2
[4]
http://www.kill9.org/
[5]
http://www.tragic-smurfs.com/
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