Note to residents of Grand Central Starport

The household network is likely to be unreliable, if not outright down, most of the morning and afternoon of Sunday, April 20. Consider reading a book.

Scheduled, long-overdue maintenance includes:

• moving the wireless access point onto the DMZ port on the router, and hopefully fixing the perennial connection problems.
• Putting Nova on its own UPS, which should improve network uptime during power outages.
• Moving the mirror drive out of the external case; possibly back into Nova.
• Installing ejabberd and icecast. Possibly asterisk. Adjusting the firewall to handle them.
• Setting up a collaboration environment for books and CDs. This will probably also include a household calendar and address book, if I can manage them.

Note that egroupware probably will not get installed; it's having baffling setup problems with the database. There's a reason why I prefer not to use databases: they don't like me. I'll probably use TWiki instead: I understand how that works.