Both of trillian's IP addresses are currently set up by DHCP, which is fine, except that DHCP tries to clobbers lots of useful information including:

the name server (I want trillian to use marvin's cache)

the default route (I want trillian's default route to be out via DSL)

The DSL provider tries to give me name servers, and marvin tries to give trillian a default route to itself -- which is appropriate for PC DHCP clients, but not for trillian.

The painful result of this is that it takes forever to boot trillian, as she is trying to find the IP addresses of internal machines dugong, jeltz, and piranha by querying the outside name server (!) via marvin (!). Yuck.

So: reconfigure trillian to get internal IP not by DHCP is a first good step. Name server and cache on trillian is a good next step.

Trillian gets a Sig11 crash in a repeatable place when I try to compile the XEmacs packages. I am hoping it's just a bug in XEmacs. It would suck to have to ditch this box too. Happens when compiling cc-align.el with r21-4-8.

Set up the samba mounts on trillian today. Also installing necessary software, such as CVS, cdrecord, etc. DJBDNS tools are now installed. Next step is making trillian be the gateway for talking to foreign cvs servers.

Fox news gives a decent summary of several recent cases where parents sued teachers and schools over their children's grades.

How long before this comes to universities, or is it already there? And not just grading -- I'm thinking of room draw, where people did wave laws (such as ADA) around. How long before Mudd's first ADA-related room draw lawsuit?