They are gonna tear down the Grand Ole Opry
It snowed today! Starting around noon we begain to see really puffy, light snow falling, and by 1:20 enough had accumulated to convince those in charge of the School (who are normally quick to panic when white precipitation begins to fly to the ground) that we should be let out early. It's lovely to leave at 1:30 instead of 2:30, but people here in North Carolina cannot keep their heads straight in snow. The route I go home had several people who were crawling down the road. Even on roads which inspire manic driving, people seemed overly cautious. I was glad to be driving our little Honda, for it handles well on the Snow. Looks like there shall be school tomorrow.
This has been an interesting few days, as always. I've been having a rather protracted discussion on the netbsd-help mailing list about the Coda Filesystem. I've been wanting to replace my creaking NFS/AMD system and pitch Samba for a long time. The way I asked the question was on which to choose: AFS or Coda. AFS, I'd known, has been used in academia for quite some time and was a professional piece of software. Coda I knew relatively little about. It has some rather interesting capabilities, especially when doing work without network capabilities. One could cache a copy of one's files, work on them while disconnected and have them reintegrate into the main fileserver when reconnected. Coda's not for me, though, since I've been told that it won't serve home directories well.
So, I'm now trying to setup AFS, which has proved to be more herculean than I'd first expected. Setting up something very basic on Legolas was a no-brainer, _but_ when it came to setting it up in a more complicated fashion on NetBSD, I'm stuck. And, I haven't had the time to fix it recently. Setting up KerberosV (rather than AFS built-in KerberosIV system, which is redundant and incompatible with all else but AFS) has proved to be difficult, and I'm wishing that NetBSD had a working PAM implementation. So, I now can login with my Kerberos ticket with Telnet and SSH, but not directly into the console. I still have to keep passwords in my NIS/master.passwd databases, which renders having Kerberos near pointless except for providing a mere convenience with automatic login. To say the lease, I'm frustrated, but I'm bound and determined to get this up and running being that I'm incredibly fatigued with having to work with Samba and NFS, both crappy, insecure, and obtuse. Hopefully, I shan't be dissappointed.
We got the cat neutered over the weekend. Ruby was drugged up very heavily. We've never had a female kitten before, so I've no idea as to whether or not she was in a normal state. I felt rather bad for her, though. When we first go her home she couldn't go to sleep, but couldn't do much of anything else. She just sat in the middle of the floor next to her kitty-carrier. She moved barely at all: just sitting there strung out and watching you. Eventually we got her back in the cage, and she just collapsed. Chester recovered well and quickly, with both of them back to their normal state. Soon, I'm going to put pictures of them up on the website, but I've misplaced the cable to my digital camera so it will be a while.
My ex-girlfriend that I talked about before has started to talk to me a little, so I feel a little bit better about that.