General update

[Dan Brosemer <odin@cleannorth.org>]

Obiwan has been replaced by an OpenBSD machine.  It was the only Linux
machine in the office, and now, there are none.  This was a long time
coming.  Now, I only have two Linux machines to manage.  The Clean North
webserver (skirnir) is one, and my notebook (hermod) is the other.  Neither
are a big deal because they don't have general user accounts.

mmm... simplifying things!

We'll even be replacing skirnir real soon now with an OpenBSD machine!  We
have another machine on the way.

The Exabyte 8505 we picked up at BOYD is humming along.  I hooked it up to
obiwan.  Nothing automatic is going on it yet, but, it will be soon.

Lack of spare ISA ports has forced me to move the fax send/receive back to
the dedicated fax machine and off the fileserver.  I'll fix this ASAP, but
for now, the dedicated machine is doing it.

Also Jabba isn't working at the moment.  I have to figure out how that
serial port wants to be configured, and then I'll get it going.

Those users making use of @cleannorth.org mail will have to change their
password before the system will allow you to fetch mail.

The system enforces quality checks on passwords and will give you a
(rather cryptic) message saying your old password was incorrect if you
attempt to change your password to something that doesn't pass the criteria.

Profiles have been re-set, so if you changed your colors, background, drive
mappings, etc, you'll have to do it again.  This was so I could get printers
working for everyone.  (Now, you don't have to map the printers yourselves).

The two Naturally Green machines have been set up with NT and Abiword (since
we're out of WP8 licenses).  Abiword can read MS Word documents and RTF
files, so you may want to export things in those formats if you want to work
on them back there.

Where we go from here:

Priority 1: Get Jabba working (Serial port configs)
2: Replace the old fax solution with a new (and better) one
3: Tape backups
4: Tighten the firewall rules
5: Re-build Luke for the row of clients
6: Centralized (and hardcopy) logging
7: Replace skirnir
8: Incorporate skirnir (with a new name) into the network.

Anybody have a pet they want to take charge of (or help out with)?

-Dan

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