(no subject)
Sep. 26th, 2007 03:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stormdogI just went through the open-book test on my company's general knowledge document by keeping it open in Adobe and using the find function to track down key words and throwing the resultant answers into the quiz. Took about ten minutes to go through all ten pages of questions. Everyone in the company has to do it, so at least I got that out of the way and can settle down to supporting the people who can't access the quiz for whatever reason.
I would have posted a new entry with some pictures, but my VPN server has been inaccessible from work the last two days and I can't upload any of them. Yesterday I came home to find a flashing green light on the UPS and two powered down servers. Flipping the on/off switch on the UPS brought them back to life. Today, I can get as far as the system verifying my username and password, then it locks up. Maybe I've mistyped the password somewhere. I did just change all of my system passwords since I lost my laptop on Saturday.
Oh yeah; I managed to leave the new laptop I got from work on the hood of![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
posicat's mini-van and drive off with him. We realized what I did and went back, but it was gone. At least I hadn't been using it long and didn't have anything irreplacable. My CF card with my Quicken backups was in it, as was the play disc for Civilization Four (which ran really nicely on a dual core 2.3Ghz machine with 4GB of RAM, let me tell you), but I should have a backup somewhere of my financial stuff and I'm working on acquiring another copy of Civ. He and I sat in the Grayslake police building waiting to file a report for about half an hour that night before going to up Kenosha to meet tybis and moiracoon who were already there waiting for us after our day spent at the Am-sci tent sale. It looks like it's not going to be a huge deal at work that I lost the hardware; I've just been advised to make sure it doesn't happen again. I really hope that if I change jobs soon, it doesn't make the loss look really bad. I feel like enough of an idiot already. For the moment, I'm back to the HP NC6400 2Ghz dual core with 2GB of RAM I was using previously. And I'm on XP instead of Vista. No big loss there.
Speaking of the tent sale, I picked up two nice big power strips of the kind you see on the back of work benches. You know; aluminum case about five feet long studded with outlets along the whole length. One is stuck behind my computer desk where it's provided serious relief to the gordion knot of wires down at my feet. The other is going to go under Andrea's desk when I get to it.
Am-sci has a fluid dynamics playset for $75 that I really want. I've loved playing with water and watching it flow for as long as I can remember. I just to dig hugely long channels in the sand at the beach and pour water into the top, over and over, to watch it flow down to the lake. I can't find a link to it right now, but it's a three dimensional framework that you can populate with tubes, tanks, valves, and pumps to mimic things like a distillery, a refinery, or other industrial emplacments, not to mention just build random things and watch the water flow. I'd be absorbed for hours. I may have to pick it up one of these days.
The tech swap is coming up this weekend. I haven't managed to find time to sort stuff out for it yet, but I guess I'll make do. Friday is probablyshaleari's game, and Saturday will see some of us trekking down to Chicago to pick up the King bed that someone on Craig's list is giving away. (Andrea actually took the day off of work on Friday to clean the bedroom and prepare for it.) Thursday and tonight are both occupied too, so the week is pretty well booked, as they usually are these days. Oh well; if nothing else, the rest of the geeks around at the swap can help sort wheat from chaff as I haul it out of the basement and offer it as tradestock.
One more hour to go to get out of here, and that will feel quite fine indeed. Site to site connectivity has been up and down the entire day (sounds like something has gone flaky on one of the PIXs or routers, but I'm not on that team and don't have the scoop), so it's been interesting. I just hope it's all fixed by tomorrow morning.
I would have posted a new entry with some pictures, but my VPN server has been inaccessible from work the last two days and I can't upload any of them. Yesterday I came home to find a flashing green light on the UPS and two powered down servers. Flipping the on/off switch on the UPS brought them back to life. Today, I can get as far as the system verifying my username and password, then it locks up. Maybe I've mistyped the password somewhere. I did just change all of my system passwords since I lost my laptop on Saturday.
Oh yeah; I managed to leave the new laptop I got from work on the hood of
posicat's mini-van and drive off with him. We realized what I did and went back, but it was gone. At least I hadn't been using it long and didn't have anything irreplacable. My CF card with my Quicken backups was in it, as was the play disc for Civilization Four (which ran really nicely on a dual core 2.3Ghz machine with 4GB of RAM, let me tell you), but I should have a backup somewhere of my financial stuff and I'm working on acquiring another copy of Civ. He and I sat in the Grayslake police building waiting to file a report for about half an hour that night before going to up Kenosha to meet tybis and moiracoon who were already there waiting for us after our day spent at the Am-sci tent sale. It looks like it's not going to be a huge deal at work that I lost the hardware; I've just been advised to make sure it doesn't happen again. I really hope that if I change jobs soon, it doesn't make the loss look really bad. I feel like enough of an idiot already. For the moment, I'm back to the HP NC6400 2Ghz dual core with 2GB of RAM I was using previously. And I'm on XP instead of Vista. No big loss there.Speaking of the tent sale, I picked up two nice big power strips of the kind you see on the back of work benches. You know; aluminum case about five feet long studded with outlets along the whole length. One is stuck behind my computer desk where it's provided serious relief to the gordion knot of wires down at my feet. The other is going to go under Andrea's desk when I get to it.
Am-sci has a fluid dynamics playset for $75 that I really want. I've loved playing with water and watching it flow for as long as I can remember. I just to dig hugely long channels in the sand at the beach and pour water into the top, over and over, to watch it flow down to the lake. I can't find a link to it right now, but it's a three dimensional framework that you can populate with tubes, tanks, valves, and pumps to mimic things like a distillery, a refinery, or other industrial emplacments, not to mention just build random things and watch the water flow. I'd be absorbed for hours. I may have to pick it up one of these days.
The tech swap is coming up this weekend. I haven't managed to find time to sort stuff out for it yet, but I guess I'll make do. Friday is probably
shaleari's game, and Saturday will see some of us trekking down to Chicago to pick up the King bed that someone on Craig's list is giving away. (Andrea actually took the day off of work on Friday to clean the bedroom and prepare for it.) Thursday and tonight are both occupied too, so the week is pretty well booked, as they usually are these days. Oh well; if nothing else, the rest of the geeks around at the swap can help sort wheat from chaff as I haul it out of the basement and offer it as tradestock. One more hour to go to get out of here, and that will feel quite fine indeed. Site to site connectivity has been up and down the entire day (sounds like something has gone flaky on one of the PIXs or routers, but I'm not on that team and don't have the scoop), so it's been interesting. I just hope it's all fixed by tomorrow morning.
