Moving Forward
Now that I've moved out two machines from the office, I needed to spend a little bit of time getting the global services that they served back on-line. Thankfully, it only took an hour or two to get the DNS changes propogated around the world, and I was easily able to redirect The Man from S.P.U.D. home page to barney. Nice that Irix handles DHCP as easily as it does. Well... so does Solaris and Linux, so I guess that's not too terribly surprising.
In any case, I had to move some services around and that didn't take too long. I was slightly disappointed that Apache on barney and sparky didn't default to using the extended API, which would have allowed me to easily compile mod_ssl, but that's not too terribly bad either. When I get another fast Linux machine in to replace tux I'll have it do the SSL stuff, and serve the main Man from S.P.U.D. page. In any case, it would have been nice, but it's not a serious problem.
I've emailed the ISP for Leslie again as she's getting ready to go live with the eCommerce site I created for her. We'll see if he comes around or if we have to move the site to another hosting company. On that note, I got the site into CVS before the move of services just to be safe. It's nice to have it under CVS as I feel much more secure and on good solid footings for this.
Tomorrow is an important interview with Bear Stearns in Chicago - hope it goes well...