Today at work I just filled out more paperwork. It was fun! Look at screen showing report my custom data tools generate. Copy column 2 to column 3, put a P or F in column 4, then initial and date column 5. Oh the fun! But it gets better! If I put a F in column 4, I got to put a number next to it too. Then at the bottom I got to write the number a second time (yes! repitition!), and write a description (copy column 1, inserting "not's" every so often). To finish it off, I got to sign and date each page. The magical wonder of paperwork!
That process was repeated for ~50 pages.
And more pages to come next Monday.
And people wonder why I've come to think the FDA and drugs are evil conspiracies.
Note: this post is primarily intended for my parents, who keep asking me about it, but may be of brief informational use to those who keep asking we for it out of curiosity's sake.
Anyway, here's my list of desired birthday presents:
- CD: Dido, Life for Rent
- CD: Swankz & Verbrilli, Lifesavers
- DVD: The Bourne Identity
- DVD: The Bourne Supremacy
- Microsoft Optical Mouse by Stark (orange)
- Cheap 802.11g router from Thanksgiving sales
If that's too unclear, drop me a line and I'll provide URI's.
Well, it's been a couple of days since the last post. I'm striving for 1 post/day, but that hasn't been going too well. Too much work all the time. Plus, I'm still trying to figure out what to blog about. I read mostly technical blogs, so I tend to associate "blog" with technical stuff. Unfortunately, I don't have that much technical stuff to talk about. Any thoughts on what to write about? (ha! now I'll find out if my email server is really working, since the only way to send comments is to email me!). In general, I'm somewhat qualified to talk about IT stuff, CS at Purdue University, and misc. windows-centric user type stuff.
Okay, the post at the end of this deserves a link (hyperlinks not supported here?). Anyway, this way I've actually posted content after having been WAY too busy for the last two weeks.
A couple of people (well, one) have asked me for my feed list. Say without further delay, I've attached my OMPL file. Enjoy!
Import Note: 2006-10-03:
It appears that the attachment has been lost during the migration. Which pretty much renders this post useless. Meh.
Computer problems are always frustrating. Especially since I seem to encounter so many of them.
Most recent issue: SharePoint (at work). Last Spring Break I build a decent prototype page using SharePoint on a developmental server. However, because of a hardware failure on an instrument, that system had to be appropriated with much haste. The backup of the dev system turned out to bad, something that only became apparent after the original drive had been wiped. However, it seemed like everything would be okay: the original config and content databases were still intact on our db server.
Not so. I cannot get a new install of WSS to connect to the config db. Keeps giving "invalid account" or kills the worker process or fails with some other error (I'll remember it eventually). The final solution is going to be to dev on another server, pull out all the documents in the old content db (using a simple app I wrote up earlier today that just pulls out the blobs), and migrate over to the production server eventually. Oh well. That's what the paychecks are for...
Update: The reason for the large time interval between initial development and now was the upgrade of all the servers to W2k3, and hundreds of pages of qualification for EVERY computer in the building (which sucked).
This is more of a test post than a content one...I'm in PHYS B10 on a SunRay 100 connected to a SunFire V250 (Remus - this is actually a newer Remus than I remember working with last year for CS290), using an old build of FireFox 0.8. Any more extreme test I could try? Oh, Remus is also running Solaris 8, with indeterminate patch level.
Earlier, I couldn't get the Sign In button to work on this config, but when I tried posting a test announcement, it worked. Oh well, so much for consistency of system behavior.
Back to the sweet work of helping CS 240 students while waiting to be bored to death by Physics "Tutorial" for 2 hours.
I've managed to get the Announcements working (stupid 2 fields on the List that I forgot to update...).
For future reference, when working with bulk importing stuff into SharePoint lists, not only do the items have to be loaded into the UserData table, the [tp_ItemCount] and [tp_NextAvailableId] fields in the Lists table need to be updated for the list being bulk loaded.
It's interesting to note that I couldn't find any information on this using Google, but now that I know the fields to adjust and search on those, I get a couple of detailed hits about the problem, and how to fix it. Probably just a sign that I need to sit down and refresh myself on how to use Google better, and how to do searching better in general.
This is the first real post. Current status of site:
- Announcements aren't working for some unknown reason
- Basic Authentication isn't working (for some unknown reason)
- MCE isn't downloading guide information anymore (tangentially related - it still involves network connectivity)
Hmm...well...it's been a while. Hence the title: would you consider it six months or ten months since the last real event in this space?
Either way, it's a long time. And the lack of postings, despite great earth shaking events, is mostly my fault. I said that the page would be back up months ago, and then failed to deliver. Even the current engine is not what I would have liked it to be in terms of capability–but it runs.
So news:
- The Active Directory domain was reinstalled. It's now "na.ntldr.local", which shouldn't really concern anyone, since basic auth using the default domain works.
- All my computers had to be reinstalled at about the same time as the DC rebuild (yeah, I had a fun last two weeks in May).
- Gatekeeper died. Motherboard gave up the ghost.
- Gatekeeper's death was catastrophic for about a month. One week was spent purchasing new servers: (2) Dell PowerEdge 400SC. They were cheap. One week was spent deploying the systems. One week was spent waiting to move (why get them set up in an environment that would require me to take everything down again just 7 days later?). The last week was spent waiting for my Internet connection to start working.
- Having a separate ISA and IIS/Exchange setup makes a WORLD of difference in terms of effective functionality and decrease in hassles.
- I'm at college now, in a dorm, and my room is virtually its own little datacenter, operating off a 10Mb/s connection with 1GB/day bandwidth, redundant power options (UPS'), and highly secured.
- There's a new version of the JSC.Web.UI.WebControls assembly (parent for DirectoryLister) in use (1.3.9.1). I think it looks really nice, and it''ll nicely complement Windows Team Services if I ever get around to evaluating, validating, and deploying that beast (I hope).
I guess that's about everything of importance. I'll post more stuff when I think of it.
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