The good news is that I have legit internet again. It was a bit of a pain to setup however. The U-Verse connection goes through my phone line, and I discovered that none of the phone jacks in the upstairs seem to work - only one jack (that's actually a cat5 jack) in the basement actually works. Anyway it's hooked up now.
In hooking things up, I also elected to use the "wireless gateway" that AT&T gave me, as I got way better speeds with it than with my old Linksys router, which sorta surprised me. I was really digging the Tomato firmware that I put on there, but I'm opting for speed and change in this case and instead dealing with the misery that comes pre-installed from AT&T.
Among other things, that also affected my server setup. I was having a heck of a time just getting the server an IP address, although it appears I got that resolved. Apache for some reason wasn't started, so I fired that up and it seems to be working, thankfully. The gallery software is still down however. I suspect MySQL isn't running, but at this point I can't even remotely login to the thing. Between having to physically walk into the basement and my lack of Linux skills (and upcoming vacation), I have no idea when it will be back up. I know Pete just put some photos up there, so I'm committed to getting it back up...at least for a while. We'll see about long-term options. My patience for Linux is growing thin.
As far as the moving goes, I'm as unpacked as I'm going to be. So far everything has been good. Now that I have internet, I can figure out how to get Hulu+ to my TV. Still haven't done so, but now I can! The new Apple TV is cool, though I really don't see it entirely fitting my needs. A Mac Mini may be in my future, despite the price tag. I dunno.
Anyway that's the story. Server is in progress - in my frustration I decided to update to the latest Ubuntu, which probably was a terrible idea. It seems to be randomly prompting me for information during the install, which is making it take forever since I'm not babysitting it. I'm worried that it's going to severely break stuff when it finally completes. Oh dear, such is life I suppose. I may need to get my IT friends over to help me out... =)
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I was sad there was no Hulu+ on the new AppleTV. I may still get it though, at $99, if the wife approves. Psyched about airplay if it means I can stream from my computer to iPhone and iPad. Can now, but not official Apple movies.
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