This month looks to be a great month.
1. My former employer has finally coughed up my final pay check. Took ‘em a while but L&I forced their hand.
2. New car somewhere in Week 2 or 3 of September (95% likelihood of this being a 2007 Scion tC)
3. Giong out to blue lake tomorrow
4. Cammy starting a new job at Whole Foods
5. and probably more
Upgraded from Wordpress 2.0.1 to 2.0.3, nothing broke!!
Also I finally completed my external bootable hard drive. I now have
OS X 10.4.6 non-server bootable installation
OS X 10.4.0 server bootable installation
OS X 10.4.6 non-server bootable desktop
Misc / Utilities (like data rescue, and various system utilities)
All partitioned on an external firewire drive. So in case of failure I can carry drive, power cord and firewire cable to a dying Mac and attempt to salvage whats left [of it].
In the last week (from last Sunday the 21st) to this Sunday I worked a total of 89.5 hours. That isn’t including commute or anything. In part so I could help cover the holiday weekend and be a good member for the “team”. While the extra OT is nice, the thanks I got was basically a bunch of attitude today and an attempted, but failed, smack down from Shawn.
So lets see if I get this right. I work 89.5 hours, including Sunday & Memorial Day only because Shawn is absolutely horrible at scheduling and the thanks I get in return is some effort to belittle me in front of all.
Wow… what a guy.
It isn’t every day where I come across a posting where I think to myself, wow that is nicely written. Recently Alexander Kjerulf of postiviesharing.com wrote about on how not to lead geeks. I have seen articles like this before but what sets this one apart is that it is written clearly and its not a ‘rant’, rather it is an open letter to managers of geeks worldwide. Personally I’d like my “fearless leader” work on #8, #6, & #4 (thats in proper order as #8 is truly bad at times with a #6 trailing in a very close 2nd).
Here is the read up….
http://positivesharing.com/2006/03/how-not-to-lead-geeks/
This is the right way to do it. I have tried it now on 4 different boxes, 5 different versions (ranging from 4.9 to 6.1-prerelease).
After you cvsup the kernel…
cd /usr/src
make buildworld
make buildkernel KERNCONF=(namehere)
make installkernel KERNCONF=(namehere)
mergemaster -p
make installworld
mergemaster
reboot
You can leave out KERNCONF if you just want to use the generic kernel (which is a good idea if your upgrading to a major version number say 5.4 to 6.0.
I guess I finally woke up and feel like most people in the world. Here I thought I had found something good, something I could hold on to. Nope… I was wrong. As of now… I have significantly less motivation in doing my job. Believe me, I had a lot of it… but basically it feels like someone attempted to rip off my nads and then stomp on them… for something I didn’t even know I was doing wrong.
I really hope I feel better by Saturday.
Yeah so this is where I spend at least 40 hours a week…
Click pic to see full size.
Well christmas is almost here. Only days away. Today my 6 1/2 day vacation (half of it is paid as well ;-)) started. I went to bed at 9am-ish with out any problems but when I woke up at 3pm I woke up with a damn cold. Since then it has worsened as well. First it was just dizyness and just unwillingness to do anything, now I am dripping and sneezing like crazy. I know for sure I got this from Cam and her cold only lasted 2 days so hopefully with plenty of sleep and enough relaxation (which I was planning to do anyways) this curse, I mean cold will be gone from my system on Christmas.
Only three more gifts need to arrive. Today the mailbox was completely empty so I am hoping that these gifts will arrive before the 25th. Thankfully one has a tracking number and is scheduled for delivery tomorrow, but the other gifts are shipped by the unreliable USPS media mail (where it can take from 3 - 30 days and it doesn’t even depend on location, trust me on that one).
Last thing. Last week a fellow colleague (Matt) came to work with a lappie that had Ubuntu installed on it. Well last weekend I converted over (having tried Fedora, Mandrake and Suse) and I found myself hooked. Matt is right, this is comfortable for anyone to use. Ubuntu (http://www.ubuntulinux.org) is based off of the conservative but very stable Debian distribution. I can honestly say that it is very stable. The only thing I had to do was update the default ipw2200 driver & firmware to a higher version. The defaults just wouldn’t talk with my Linksys WRT54G router. Only thing I hope they will add in the next release is WPA support. There is a way to get it in there but its messy. Right now I have had to reduce my wireless router settings from WPA to WEP. Not very happy about that, but I don’t think I am in any significant danger as I hardly doubt that anyone around here hacks Wifi networks for a living and if they do, my laptop can pick up on 3 other (using default shipped names & default router passwords) wifi networks.
Well Christmas is only a week away. Cam and I setup the tree last week and the cat attacked it within 2 hours. In any case. My holiday shopping was done basically all online this year. However there is a big con to this. I depend on shipping companies (FedEx, UPS, USPS) to get the gifts to me on time.
Yesterday such misfortune happened to me. It looks like the eBay seller wrote down the wrong address and it was delivered and signed by someone by the initials BD. I am now in dispute with the seller and gave him/her an ultimatum; If the package isn’t here by December 24th, your getting negative feedback. We shall see how that turns out. Another big mistake I made was opting for Amazon.com’s standard shipping in their Amazon Marketplace. I purchased 3 books for my mom and Cam and they probably won’t arrive until after Xmas. Not really thrilled about that.
Oh well… other then that. I am looking forward to Christmas. I only have to work three days this week so that definitely is a plus. I’m off on Thursday (I work nights remember) at 6am and I am not returning to work until Tuesday 7pm.
Thats all for now…
Yvo
Yup! Finally the gallery is back in full swing. I installed Gallery2 on it and it seems to work very nicely.
At the same time I dumped Fedora and put something much better on it. Well actually I just found better hardware and decided to go the Intel route (just like Apple next year). However OS X at one point stemmed directly off of FreeBSD (it still has a lot of similarities today), so I haven’t betrayed the mighty Apple.
Current setup:
FreeBSD 6.0
Apache 2.0.55
MySQL 5.0.16
PHP 5.1.1
Basically that means it has the latest of everything. I can also use Webmin now to administer the server remotely. Webmin is very nice stuff. If I was rich I would donate lots of money to see new versions of it. They just need a better default skin, however stress-free has a skin that looks very similiar to OS X 10.4, it even has a working Spotlight tool.
Bringing back the Gallery only because I am getting a new digital camera for Xmas so I can return to taking pictures. Not only that, but I have 3 throw-away cameras that need developing.
Go here to see the new and improved gallery:
http://www.disgruntled-dutch.com/gallery
or just click the link to the left (the one that says picture gallery)
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