I love the fall
September 16, 2003
I was outside this morning taking the dog out and i couldnt help but enjoy the weather we are having right now. I’d have to say fall would be my favorite season of the year. The air gets a little cooler, the leaves start turning orange/red, and you can buy a ton of apple cider at the store. Only downside to the fall season is that winter is going to show up soon.
Some other happenings..
The car is fixed, both struts and ball joints were replaecd this weekend by my uncle. He was kinda enough to take the car for a weekend and work on it. Only thing i had to pay for was parts and a front end alignment. When i get paid this weekend i am going to give him a little something for fixing the car.
I really started getting back into things at work. Scott one of the admins who has been working on Openview and knows it better then me is helping me out with it. What we are going to do is try and cut down on all the BS messages we are getting in the message browser. Once we get them cut down and only bringing up the ones that are important, we will start transitioning them to the ops_watch message group so that we start getting them. I have a test unix box and waiting for a test NT server to play around with. As i figure out more things with Openview, i’ll post little blurps here and there.
I know have 2 down machines sitting on my desk. The IBM hard drive that i have in my LAN box that goes with me to Eric’s shit the bed this past weekend. What i will do is swap it with the Western Digital in drwily and when i rebuild drwily go with a smaller drive. I might try and see if i can RMA the drive from IBM’s site.
Gnome 2.4 was released, i am going to have to try and get it on the laptop and check it out. A couple of guys in #linux did a really awesome review which got alot of praises from the community. You can find the article here..
http://arstechnica.com/reviews/003/software/gnome-2.4/gnome2.4-1.html
I really wish i can work more with linux in the work place. ITs not fooling around with it and setting up servers at home, but i really would like to work with it in datacenter. Between doing real administration work, playing with hardware that i normally do not have access to. Implementing linux solutions etc. More and more i see companies are jumping on the linux bandwagon, but not ours. All we have is a couple of RH 7.3 machines that just sit there and do nothing, except for one which is a Java dev box for some stuff that Process Integration is doing. Maybe someday when i am done with school and i actually have an admin job, i’ll be able to do it.
