December 1, 2005

I love my new job

a coworker from my last job just told me the following (names changed to protect the moronic): 13:06 [ shaldannon] sooo 13:07 [ shaldannon] Bill got assigned to relocate a link to a form from one page to another 13:07 [ shaldannon] the "SPX Invention Disclosure Form" 13:08 [ shaldannon] JK asked Bill to alphabetize it under 'I' for 'Invention ...' rather than under 'S' 13:08 [ shaldannon] thing is....it' 13:08 [ shaldannon] it's the only link on the page 13:08 [ shaldannon] how do you realphabetize a single item?

December 1, 2005

sleep

As some of you may or may not know, I’ve been having back problems ever since I moved to Virginia. The Movers “misplaced” our stuff, and I ended up sleeping on the floor or an half-inflated air mattress for a month. I’ve had back problems ever since. Right before thanksgiving, two excellent events happened: I had a doctor’s appointment We bought a new bed I went to the doctor to complain about my backpain, and see if I could get a consultation or something.

November 28, 2005

Rage, Pt. 2

so, you might have noticed my site has been acting oddly the last few weeks- I’ve found a bug with mod_rewrite in my current setup. I’m not sure what or how or why it changed, I just know that sometime between Nov. 10th and 16th, mod_rewrite stopped allowing implicit redirects that wordpress uses. I’ve since modified the .htaccess file to use explicit redirects, but it’s ugly as hell. until I figure out wtf is going on, that’ll have to work for now.

November 16, 2005

Lotus Notes

oh, Lotus Notes, how I hate thee. you make me happy that the place I’m working at is replacing you with exchange. wait, I’m happy to use a microsoft product? why yes, lotus notes is really that bad- It’s a festering piece of crap. Here’a s brief breakdown of why I hate lotus notes: General Written in java, but not cross platform Closed source (Hello, IBM? I thought you liked open source!

November 8, 2005

rage

nothing inspires rage more than spending 30 minutes on a wordpress article only to have firefox crash when you press the left arrow key. I’ll write my lotus notes rant later.

November 6, 2005

Radio

One of my side projects this past year was developing a “Radio Show” program to track and display info about songs currently playing on my stream. I’ve taken the last few months off, but now I’m back on track. http://morgajel.com/radio/index.php Unfortunately the stream is not available to the public (You can thank the RIAA for that bit of bullshit). If you have any comments, feel free to add them to my bugtracker: http://morgajel.

October 29, 2005

Can’t say they didn’t give me Nothing

So I woke up at 2:30am with severe back pain- the stabbing kind that makes it so you can’t breathe unless you sit/stand up. When THEY WHO SHALL NOT BE NAMED hired me, they brought me down from Michigan and paid to have our stuff moved. Long story short, their movers of choice were incompetent, and it ended up taking a month to get my bed. Since we were dead broke, I couldn’t afford a spare, and the cats kept popping the air mattress.

October 29, 2005

Linux Books for Linux Users

You know what I’d like to see? Someone plop down a series of books aimed at introducing a user or Sys admin of a particular Linux Distribution to another Distribution; for example “Administrating Redhat Enterprise Linux 3 for Debian Administrators” or “Using Suse for Gentoo Users” . Hell, they don’t even have to be big books- maybe 200-600 pages. Ebooks would probably be the way to go since it will probably not sell a whole lot of copies.

October 27, 2005

Calling all Cars…

So in order to keep this job, I have to be cleared for a position of public trust. This means I have to document Every Place I’ve lived in the last 7 years Every Place I’ve workd in the last 7 years A Contact for each one of the above 3 people who know me well. So if I start asking weird questions, and you get calls from the Feds, don’t freak out- I’m not going to jail- it’s just clearance.

October 24, 2005

RHN

So I had my first head-butting with Redhat Enterprise today. I thought I’d give it the run through, try to do things the RH way while building my command center. Since Dell gives away Advanced Server disc packs like candy, there were a few laying around. Went through the trouble of installing RHEL AS v3 only to find out that it not only doesn’t come with yum, but to register properly with their up2date network, it’ll cost $1500.