Yesterday, I began the process of moving shoulddie.com over to being hosted on freasha. I also created a page which reads off the latest email that the shoulddie.com domain receives and put it here. It updates every 3 minutes. I hope to actually go about building the main shoulddie.com site this week.

I fixed a few nagging problems in the last week.

1. freasha now automatically starts mysql when it boots so the link should function properly after one of rose's random power outages.

2. haruko now automatically restarts its networking subsystem every 4 hours to defend against insightbb's bad tendency to randomly disconnect.

3. haruko automatically contacts one of my machines each night to register its ip address. Once I finish the php/mysql thing I'm writing to automatically configure dns, I will extend this functionality to make it automatically set its ip address as well.

I wrote a script for generating self-signed ssl server keys:

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#!/bin/bash

openssl genrsa -out server.key -rand /dev/urandom:/dev/random 1024
echo "REMEMBER: Common name is the hostname of the server"
openssl rsa -in server.key -out server.pem

openssl req -new -key server.key -out server.csr

openssl x509 -req -days 3655 -in server.csr -signkey server.key -out server.crt

I installed debian on haruko today. Haruko is currently in use as the router/NAT between the home.blade.io network and the internet.

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I decided to delete the blade.io server blog and merge it into this one. Since I barely updated either. I intend to use this for both its original purposes and to keep track of changes to the blade.io/guyblade.com/etc. domains.