ARGH!!!

In the past week:
-Got rejected for a job that i truly believed i had in the bag.
-Tendinitis kicked into full effect in my right elbow (thus typing is bad and downright painful for me)
-Did a self-diagnosis on my tendinitis because i've got no prospect of having the $ for a doctor visit let alone insurance
-Offered to do "charity" work on a laptop for a friend of a friend. Apparently when you do something voluntarily and for free, people think they have grounds to be demanding and picky. This of course coincides with them being very demanding of your free time. No good deed goes unpunished it seems.
-Tangled with another laptop at the same time for a friend's ex. Not getting paid a whole lot but then i don't mind in this case because there's 100% trust in my assessment of the situation. Oddly enough, this is the one that is the least stressful for me.
-Accepted the fact that paying $1200 in order to get a part time job that pays $7.50 is just stupid.
-Consistently gone to sleep after 4am and had people wonder why i have trouble getting up at 10am.
-Completely dropped the ball on my friends bday. All we wound up doing was going out for dinner after work and didn't even have the $ to buy him a beer.
-Done nothing around the house since sun evening. Dishes, vacuuming, laundry, cat litter, sweeping, and random cleaning are severely behind schedule.

ARGH!!!!!!!

FTP server on a winXP box

This weekend i started investigating in my free time what my options were for setting up an FTP server on my winXP box. After asking a few others that have more experience with this, i was given the following options:

Cerberus: http://www.cerberusftp.com/
FileZilla:http://filezilla-project.org/
SSHWindows:
http://www.digitalmediaminute.com/article/1487/setting-up-a-sftp-server-on-windows
Serv-U: http://www.serv-u.com/
Madsonclan.net


I consider myself an experienced user of FTP clients and my current favorite is FileZilla. The goal of this project is to find an SFTP server which i can run successfully on my box whenever i want to share media upon request and at the same time be easy to administer. My biggest concerns are SFTP vs FTP, ease of use, "footprint", and bandwidth capping. I'm sure most applications will meet my criteria but this is still what i will be judging them on.

My first trial has been with FileZilla and the results were mixed. Obviously needed to forward the necessary ports and the setup seemed fairly simple. The documentation provided by Madsonclan.net was especially helpful in helping me understand what was going on as i kept clicking NEXT. Using my friend as a guinea pig, I determined that this test was a failure. Eventually he was able to connect but could neither view nor upload to the shared folder. Furthermore, he was only able to connect using FTP and not SFTP. Documentation about FileZilla Server has been vague as to whether it can truly support SFTP but it appears that is not the case. Our first couple of attempts were unsuccessful because i needed to open the proper port (21) in the Windows Firewall. Once the ports were open, he told me his client said he was connected (verified by the server GUI showing that he was connected).

So.... close.... but.... so.... far....

Before i move on from FileZilla to another app, i intend to figure out why he couldn't see anything in the directory let alone upload to it. No sense in trying to tackle this problem while i'm learning my way around yet another new application, right? This sounds like a file permission issue but the account has all of the necessary permissions for that directory. Why does it still sound like a permissions problem then and why do i have a feeling i'm close? About 10 minutes after testing was concluded (i was hungry), i came up with a couple ideas.

During the next testing round i need to remember to check the folder permissions (right click -> properties -> sharing -> share this folder).

Testing is complete for the moment and now it's time to get my quality killing time in. Updates to follow each round so stay tuned!!!

Most Listend To Music (2007)

The list is essentially complete. There will eventually be a brief commentary on why i picked each track to symbolize this past year. These are the songs that i found myself listening to a lot in 2007 and thus they are now the soundtrack of the year for myself.

In no particular order:

Sinead O'Connor - The Foggy Dew
Blaggards - Drunken Sailor
Dropkick Murphy's - Flannigans Ball
Dropkick Murphy's - State of Massachusetts
Apoptygma Berzerk - Cambodia
Apoptygma Berzerk - In This Together
Johnny Cash - God's Gonna Cut You Down
Reese Witherspoon (Walk The Line Soundtrack) - Wildwood Flower
Bad Religion - Beyond Electric Dreams
Messiah - Temple of Dreams
Misfits - Mars Attacks
Misfits - Dig Up Her Bones
Alice In Chains - Would
Tears For Fears - Shout
Anthrax - Riding Shotgun
Anthrax - Burst
Chuck Berry - Brown Eyed Handsome Man
Iron Maiden - Caught Somewhere In Time
Vas - The Inward Coil

If you're interested in hearing any/all of these songs then contact me and i can make them available to you.


(more to come...)

Happy New Years!

It appears that 2008 has arrived and there's no turning back. May it be peaceful and safe for us all. Damn... It's an election year officially. Well it can't hurt to keep our fingers crossed just in case, right? :)

Coming soon: songs of 2007 mix from yours truly.