Normally Mondays don’t bother me. They’re the start of the week. I could almost say I look at them as an opportunity for a fresh start to a good week. I hope the rest of the week isn’t like today though. I think I kept busy but I didn’t feel very productive. I did manage to get a sheet of paper off my desk that has been there for several months. It was a reminder of some “customer service” related items that I wanted to make note of that we should do. I also puzzled a bit about the NTP issue that I’ve been having in one of the labs and discovered it actually shows up in more than one. If I use the campus ntp server, it sets the time to random erroneous times (seems to jump forward several weeks at a time). If I use any other time server, it sets the time correctly. Anyway, I updated our lab settings to point at UW-Madison’s public ntp server. We should see how that goes tomorrow.
This afternoon I helped with a voice-over recording for “The Diary of Anne Frank” that University Theatre is presenting soon. Not real exciting but as it turns out, it was the only time I got out of the building today between coming into work and leaving from work. I also got to install some more RAM in my workstation this afternoon so I’m up to 2GB there. That should help noticeably when I start digging into the web redesign project more. I also started working on getting my head around our task tracking software. I don’t think it’s a good idea to have 14 system administrators for the same software product, particularly when in most cases, making them project administrators should be sufficient. We’re using Footprints if anybody is curious. I’m looking to upgrade to the current version, but I need to know who will be affected first … which means tracking down who “owns” each of the 20 or so projects we have set up in the software. Most are straight-forward but there are a few unknowns.
Anyway, I hope the rest of the week is more positive than today, even if it is forecasted to snow. I’m really ready for the cold, wet weather to go away. I want to drive with the windows down and the radio thumpin’. 
This past weekend was pretty uneventful. I had hoped to get some work done on my server. I would like to update to PHP5 and MySQL 5. However, I think it makes sense to upgrade to FreeBSD 6.2 since I want to do that as well. Apparently my gettext is out-of-date too and upgrading that will require me to rebuild most of the software packages on the server. To complicate matters further, the partition all this gets built on is 83% full … so I’d like to figure out a way to expand it. My thought is to move my home directories from /home (ad0s1g) to my data volume (ad2s1d – 160GB drive that’s 30% full or so) and redo /usr (ad0s1f) to include a few more gigs that were formerly occupied by /home. Anybody out there ever resized a FreeBSD partition? (if partition is even the right word here?)
