Friday, July 5, 2002
Today was my first day of telecommuting. So far it's nice. I spent most of the day reading about how to secure Linux from SANS Institute documents. I also received and coded the new Medicine Question of the Month for Candy and Susie. It's out for review. Dinner at home with Patrick: roast chicken boobs, corn on the cob, skinny french fries. After dinner, I took a shower and installed James B. Bowlin's Linklint on frankfarm.com. It works well, and I'm impressed after trying to get Bastian Kleineidam's LinkChecker to work in Python—I couldn't figure out how to make it go because there were no installation or usage instructions that worked for me. Specifically, the INSTALL file said to run "python.exe setup.py --help" but there was no setup.py file in the folder that it pointed me to. It also said to double-click on "linkchecker.bat" on my desktop, but the installer didn't put any such batch file there. It also said that I could execute "python.exe linkchecker" in the Scripts directory, but that also didn't work, and I can't remember why now. I just want to forget the whole frustrating experience. I signed up for dshield.org and also installed VisualZone. Candy responded to the review—she liked everything, so I made the new page live shortly before midnight.