Sorry about not posting for a few weeks, but I've been really busy at work working on the Intranet stuff.  With the target deployment date approaching and the beginning of user testing against the site I've been refining a lot of things on it.  Thank goodness for VPN's!

 

On the downside, practically all my time actually spent on site during business hours is taken up by meetings.

 

This week I'm busy with a lot of midterms, and the week after that the Intranet goes live at work, so there probably wont be many posts for a bit.

I goofed up the blog post order two weeks ago when I went back and added categories to everything.  In a few weeks, as I make more posts, that should go away.

Note to self: don't configure Group Policies to apply in the opposite order from what you meant.  It just doesn't work, and causes problems for everyone.

 

Sorry about the site downtime/instability for the last 2 days.

I want one builtin to my Tablet!

 

Seriously, if it works as well as the reviewer says, and it cost a lot less, I might start regretting the $15 mini USB keyboard I bought for my tablet a couple of weeks ago.

 

I spent a lot of time working on the site this weekend.  Probably far too much.  But, COMMENTS WORK!  (with the caveats listed in the Site News tab).  Anyway, it might be a bit until I get the new right colum stuff written up and added to the site, so to access the RSS feeds right now you have to go to http://www.ntldr.net/RssFeeds/.

I'd put them all in this post, but the editor I hav working right now is stupid and wont let me paste (!?) anything into it.  So I may end up writing up a Blogger API wrapper for the SharePoint Web Services soon.

At home we have four cats, including "the two kittens".  If this (see bottom link) happens to me when I'm home for spring break / the summer, I think I'm going to move out to a cardboard box in the backyard with suitably long extension cord and network cable connections running back into the house ("the two kittens" are indoors only).

 

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I went to work again, since I'm now on my semesterly schedule.  Not much happened.  Feel free to stop reading after the title above.

Basically, I talked to one of the other IT guys, then I talked to my boss, then I talked with another IT guy, then I started reinstalling a PC (it got reassigned to a new user).  So, not much happened.

The most interesting part of the day was that we wont be using Gateway as a vendor anymore, after the shitty support we got for the NAS box (I should write a few follow-up posts to the one I wrote here about that), and now it turns out that Gateway hasn't been filling our orders correctly for the last few months.  So no more Gateway.  Yay.

 

Updated 2004-01-12 20:40: I got the image to work via db hacking.

 

The link isn't coming out nicely AT ALL.  phooey.

 

Anyway, text version:

 

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I dropped my HP TC1000 yesterday.  It was going into the slip case, and while zipping it up it just kind of slipped out.

 

Ouch.

 

Shortly after the beginning the lengthy drop from an altitude of 2 feet, it impacted the ground.  Impacts with computers are bad.

 

The actual collision occurred along the bottom edge of the unit, where the speakers are located.  Now, I find speakers builtin to notebooks to be extremely annoying (although people are getting better about knowing how to toggle MUTE on the volume controls), but dropping a whole Tablet along the speaker edge in retribution doesn't seem very...effective.

 

ANYWAY, there wasn't much damage (too bad speakers...<cackle>I'll get you next time my pretties!</cackle>).  The batter latch gave out and the battery popped out, and the casing on it is pretty much toast now.

 

Did I mention that I dropped my primary battery during Winter Break and chipped parts of that casing off?  Well, I did, so it was the backup battery that got hosed.  So now I'm stuck with a primary battery that's back in the unit, being held in with tape.

 

Despite my extra warranty coverage, batteries aren't covered for anything beyond the first year.  Last I checked, a new battery was hundreds of dollars.  This sucks.

 

So ya...things haven't been going so well with the Tablet PC for me lately.

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