A Three Hour Tour

So, as evidenced by the timestamps, I haven’t updated this thing in a very, very long time.  It seems that whenever I start a blog of any kind, I either abandon it, or half my posts are me ranting about how infrequently I update it.  Instead, this is more of a personal note reflecting on things I can write about in the future.

Someday, I plan to write a few guides to setting up a linux web server.  Things that are less well-documented, or that have taken me ages to figure out.  For instance:

• My .prompt
• DNS configuration, self-hosting
• NSS and PAM, and hooking that up to MySQL
• My postfix configuration
• Backup system – automated backups between two Linux servers and a Windows desktop
• Giving a DNS name to a dynamic IP, without using DynDNS or any of those services.
• Secure FTP, as in FTPS and not SFTP.  How to set up a server of such a service.
• Server monitoring tools – including a power-usage graph.
• 1-wire bus.  Temperature sensors, graphing, etc.

Other than computer-related topics, someday I want to write about all the random, obsure, funny, or awesome things I’ve discovered on the UCLA campus.  “Martha’s Garden” to the best views in south campus.  For that matter, a history of the hill – the dorms here at UCLA – or a collection of interesting tidbits.

I find I have all sorts of cool projects in mind, and no time to do them, without either my grades, work, or sanity suffering.  But I’m sure that’s common to nearly all college students.  Oh, and at some point I’d like to learn programming for Mac OS.

And that’s it for now.  Signing off from Ackerman, eating lunch right before a final exam.  Fun.