Jogging #2

Well, I did it. Made somewhat easier by the fact that Steve had to get up even earlier this morning, to be in the office at 7am. (His job sucks. New manager seems to be as psychotic in the over-work department as the old one--he routinely gets there at 5:30am. I ask you--!. I may demand he start seeking other employ, purely for our sake.) ANYways... Happily, not raining or sleeting as was expected; looking at the radar map it looks like that'll roll in about the time I leave for work, O joy.

It's sort of hard to get in a groove when you have to keep looking at your watch (but at least I can see the watch now). I did have enough leisure to actually pay attention to how I am moving, and I think I'm doing it slightly wrong. Next week I alternate 90 sec. jogging with 120 sec. walking, and with that extended run time I believe I can start addressing the issue.

A Winner Is Me!

I've been dorking around with OS X Server as part of my plan for eventual world part-time employee domination off-and-on for the past month; mostly off, due to previously-posted chaos. Today I finally got back to it.

I haven't gotten very far up to this point, not just because of lack-of-time, but because I'm having to learn directory services and how they work and what not. This has not entered my world before, and I was unclear on a bunch of concepts. It's also the first time I've had to build a server that other people are really going to have to use, like in a production situation, as opposed to Here, Have An Account On My Box So You Can Read Usenet. Planning is involved.

So, I determined that when this thing is done and ready to be used, ideally I would like it to pull authentication information for the student employees from the already-extant Active Directory setup they're in; and for the staff members who will have access to it, from the already-extant LDAP that they are in. The fine manual indicates that Leopard can do this. (Though I am still fuzzy on how my existence on the server is going to interact with my user account on my desktop machine. Because it seems like it will be very VERY helpful, and possibly more helpful than I want. I've put that to the side for later meditation.)

So I had a word with Server Admin, and I said "Connect to a directory server".

Obediently, it went and thought about it, and told me it was configured to do that, and told me to use Directory Utility to set up the directory server information. Well, I can't do that yet since I haven't talked to the systems people (which will probably also cause some Drama, as the head sysadmin is allergic to OS X Server after a bad experience somewhere around 10.3 I think), so I figured to just not set that up and play with it locally.

The flaw in my brilliant plan is that now, when I try to log in to the admin account...it's trying to auth me against a directory server that doesn't exist. Oddly enough, it cannot seem to confirm that my username & password are correct. YAY TEH BUS.

Failure to Get It.

The mini-Starbucks in the West Building closes at 2:30pm on Fridays (7:30pm the rest of the week).

Because no student might possibly have a desire for a caffeine jolt on a Friday afternoon/evening.