After an inordinate amount of searching on Google the FTP server is back up and running. My note in the Linux section of the site about adding information for FTP configuration “some time in the future” came back and took a big bite out of my ass on this one since it took me about four hours to figure out what needed to be configured.
In other news, JB again proved that there is such a thing as “JBness” by disappearing for two days to tag along with the Stanford solar car team for the final legs of their race across the country. Apparently when the sun goes down the car stops (it is solar after all), making for some interesting sleeping arrangements. JB’s story of a bewildered farmer who suddenly found a solar car, three support vehicles, and twenty college engineers sleeping in his field was a good one. My introduction to this whole thing came when the team decided to crash at our place after the race — when I got home twenty people were sleeping on the floor, fighting over showers, or worshipping some device JB had designed to display power levels for battery arrays (apparently one of their batteries caught fire during the race). Living here has its memorable moments.
In random news, the system is down, yo.