Moving tux
This morning I decided to move tux from the ISDN network to the Cable Modem network. Since this was a move from static IP addressing to DHCP, I expected a few problems and planned for it to take me most of the day to get it right. I was very pleased to see that Linux had pump which handles the DHCP client tasks quite nicely. When I created an /etc/pump.conf with a set of very simple, reasonable defaults, things went along quite nicely. Within a few short minutes the NIC was reconfigured and running quite nicely on the DHCP address.
Then came the task of converting all the defaults and settings that went along with the old network. Not brain surgery, but a lot of little details - NTP, proxies, etc. all had to be reconfigured for the new network. At the same time I moved my Toshiba Portege 3015 to behind the NAT/firewall so that there would still only be four machines on the Cable Modem network. That was very simple as I maintained the DHCP configuration.
So inside of an hour I had reconfigured the networks to move tux to the outside world. You can jump to him here. Good tools make work easy.
This evening I spent some time working up the initial The Man from S.P.U.D. homepage. I spent a lot of time on the graphics, and I think it shows. The text is a little weak, but even that's not bad. I think it'll do nicely as a web page. I wanted to keep it simple and short. Nothing fancy, and easily viewed on all browsers. Nice work.