Print Release System

I bundled up the source for the print release system and posted it today. I posted a link to it at freshmeat. I'm rather pleased with it. It's fun to write code that works.

I had lunch with Hoogendyk today at the University Club. I got a monte cristo sandwich which was incredibly delicious. It was nice to catch up with Tom. We talked about photography and the University and second children. We don't get enough time to chat these days.

When I got back to my office, I found that Daniel wanted to hang with me for the afternoon. He arrived, but then went the rounds with Tom to put money in a meter and talk with people around the department while I was helping people print posters. When he did hang with me, he found that he couldn't let 5 minutes go by without wanting to talk to me about things, so -- in the end -- we left work a bit early, since I wasn't getting anything done anyway.

When I got home, I found that one of Charlie's friends wanted to speak with me. "It's all hooked up," he said. "We just need to forward on ports 22, 80, and 10000."

"What?" I said.

"The server," he said. "We've hooked up the server and its running -- we just need to set up the port forwarding."

I looked at Charlie who said, "You said it was OK. Last night. I talked to you and you were like half asleep and you said it would be OK."

In the end, I helped them set up the Riverwolf Website on the mac we've been using as a home server. The machine they had set up was not created in a particular security focused way: they had the webserver running as root. In less than half an hour, I installed mysql, migrated their data, and got the site working.