6 hours on the phone with Microsoft
August 5, 2003
Yeap thats pretty much how i spent my monday yesterday at work. Sitting there with a Engineer from Microsoft troubleshooting a exchange server in Nashville. In a way it was kinda cool but in the end i was kinda pissy, my boss kept comming out and asking me questions on shit he was already trained on, plus i didnt get a chance to eat dinner. So at the end of it was kinda pissed off and just didnt want to deal with anything. I just hope the big boss wasnt to pissed that i didnt get the GVA bank in time and held up some of the production. I figured this was only going to be an hour or two…not six.
Before i got drafted to help the admin’s out i was able to finish off my snmp book that i got last week. Now i have a much better understanding of snmp and the kinda of things i can do with it. I’ll just have to work on the Openview manual and start getting what i want to get done on paper and start planning on what i am going to do. I already have a list of all the hosts that are running the Openview agents, just need to see what else that can be monitored on them besides all the normal system stuff.
I think its going to be time for my annual reformat and reinstall of winXP soon. svchost for some reason keeps crapping all of itself which reboots the machine. Pain in the ass i tell you, i wonder if something for fucked up when my brother managed to hijacked it and surfed around porn sites.
A couple of blurbs before i get something to eat and head out to the gym…
- Novell Acquires Ximian to Expand Linux Solutions and Open Source Commitment
This is going to be interesting, I cant wait to see how this is going to pan out for the Linux community. I remember messing around with Ximian Gnome a few years ago on my caldera install (hey it was a few years ago and it was my first distro, i was young and stupid 
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- Red Hat Takes Aim at Infringement Claims
Looks like things are starting to heat up a bit in the SCO vs IBM case. I am glad RH is doing this, SCO from day one has been beating its drum and making a bunch of racket. The one thing they havent done yet was show proof of what IP of their has been infringed on.
