Day: 15 April 2003

Tuesday With vendors, and web problems.

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Well I am starting to write this on the east bound train home tuesday. Not sure when this post will be finished but I am stuck leaving work at 7:30PM tonight. It is daylight out so I don’t even realize that it is late anymore. There is still work to do and it is light out, you forget it is 7pm.

We had some problems some web sites today. It was not fun. We think it is related to a bunch of different problems ranging from running out of disk space on one web server to huge amount of searching on a database server. It probably will take days to sift through the data.

I ended up meeting with our telecom vendor today. It was a meeting that was planned when I was out on friday so I was sort of surprised. I think it went well. We told them point blank that we were not happy with them, and we need problems fixed now or we wont use them on in our new office. they seemed eager to do what we want (of course who wouldn’t when you dangle money to someone). We are on sales guy number 4. This guy seems to have a clue so we will see how things go from there. it is tough. I like what these guys say, but I have heard speeches before and then get no results. if our new sales guy can do what he claims I will be happy. the question is will he do what he claims? I am betting allot on that answer.

In other news, Keith is officially a dumb-ass. His problem with the RAID array I spoke about before was that the card came loose and he didn’t check it while he tried to fix it for 2 1/2 hours yesterday. At least he figured it out on his own. FYI, I use the term dumb-ass lovingly:) If I really don’t like them I would just call them an asshole.

Hockey Playoff’s Vs. Passover

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OK, so I am really stupid sometimes. I found out Friday that I am going to a NY Islanders playoff game Wednesday. I also knew that Wednesday I am going to my brother-in law’s mothers house for the first night of passover. I didn’t put 2 + 2 together until Monday that both these things are this Wednesday. I took for granted that my friend rich who got the tickets would keep these things in mind. He didn’t. His family is only getting together for passover on the second night.

Now I had a delema. Do I goto hockey playoff’s or passover dinner. So being the good jew that I am, I decided I am going to see the islanders play hockey. Hey, I am not religious. The only reason I was going to go to passover was to not get the guilt from my mom. My dad and sister were both like “cool, did you get good seats?” So instead of sitting down for an hour of BS at a dinner that I won’t eat or won’t like with people I hardly know, I am going to a hockey game to hang out with one of my best friends and his girlfriend who is also very cool. I think I made the correct choice.

Now not being up on the whole religious think I am not sure about this, but I think that us jewish people don’t believe in hell, so I am lucky, since to some this might be a bad choice. I will believe in my own way. I will also conform on thursday night for the second night of passover!

Sales guys suck, & other Tuesday news

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Have I mentioned that sales guys (people, gotta be politically correct) suck? They do. I am trying to sift through all the quotes and crap I am getting while preparing to build this new office, and people don’t have a clue. I have one phone provider call me last week going they can’t provide local phone server in the area we are moving to. I was like, ok sorry. I guess we can’t use you then since I want one company to do everything for me. Then monday I get a call from that guys boss going, well we kinda can do local service in that area. I was like make it simple and make it a good price and I will look at you. Until then these guys are talking BS. I cannot wait to get the bidding out of the way and just build the thing.

Our weekly management meeting was canceled yesterday. I think there was a board meeting or something. It will happen today instead.

So I got my new low end compaq rack mounted server. I mean low end when I say it. This thing is an IDE drive machine with RAID in it. it is so cheap that it didn’t even come with a CD-ROM & Floppy drive. Normally I assume a computer will ship with at least 1 input device such as a floppy drive. got a call out to those people to get something so I can load the OS onto it. Like I said sales people are moron’s.

The only other things of note on monday were we had some patches of problems with one of our database servers. Our engineers are looking at it. That means I need to get my crazy 8 ball out and help them with the diagnosis. Also Keith is having problems with an IDE RAID system. I will look at it with him today.