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Here's a little bit of information on how I've integrated Squid into our Samba fileservers at work.

Background

Previously, we had NetWare servers running BorderManager. We were attempting to use BM to provide content filtering and access control to the internet. However, like most of our other experience with NetWare, this proved less than stellar.

The latest version of Juice (formerly known as iPodder) is not officially supported on Windows Vista. However, it can be made to work, with a little persuasion.

Today I rolled into work expecting a slack day. Silly me.

It seems that our database server was set up rather incorrectly by Yours Truly. Namely, back before I knew better, I'd partitioned this machine in an odd fashion that left not very much space for the databases (this was before I really started using this machine as our DB server.) I came in this morning to find that the partition containing the databases was full. I'm now in the process of converting the DB server to use LVM, so I can prevent this from happening again.

So much for an easy Monday at the office.

I've about gone back to using Vista for day-to-day operations on my tx1000 laptop. Debian runs OK, but much of the hardware is not properly supported, due to the vendors being unwilling to provide specifications or write drivers.

For the one or two of you who frequented my site in the past, you may notice that it's well, gone. I had some trouble with the hand-rolled SSI site, mainly with CSS rendering weird, and I decided simply to take the site offline until I had time to work on it. Well, it seems that Drupal is my solution to that problem. I'm slowly migrating the old site's content into Drupal, and I'll eventually get around to customizing the framework itself.