I am sitting on the train wanting to write more about what has been happening, but my hands are starting to hurt. lots of typing recently. So I will try later this week to keep up to date.
Day: 12 November 2003
Jayson’s Wedding
So for a number of reasons I am unable to goto the big wedding in vegas the week of thanksgiving. Actually, from what I have been told it wont be that big. it will probably be a blast. I am planning on going down to visit in December. I haven’t seen jay, joe, or gretchen in ages.
New Servers
I may have mentioned a project I am working on to build the hardware for our new fulfillment system. Our design calls for 3 servers. We finally got the 3rd one in today. One of the first 2 had a bad drive so keith was working on that today, while I was building out the newest one we received. I have to say the serial ATA RAID 5 setup is just as sweet as serial ata mirroring we did on a previous machine.
Hopefully all 3 machines will be built and ready to goto our datacenter on friday. then we can create a domain and finish configuring them.
I also got thrown some security documentation that I have to do. it was a last minute thing that is going to be a pain to write. I am told I do documentation well, but I don’t like doing it all that much.
Automatic Updates
Tonight we try our second wave of automatic windows updates for desktop computers. We (keith & I) finally got the Microsoft windows update server working. This server replaces Microsoft’s own windows update site for your company. you can pick and choose what updates your desktops get and when. It saves us from downloading patches we have no idea about. It is a great idea. I looked into this service back in August, but had trouble with programing the client machines to auto update. I then didn’t have time to finish the project. A few weeks ago keith took up the research into the auto update server. He did everything I did and then learned out how to program Active Directory to tell computers in the domain to look for the auto update server. We took the existing server I had up and running and made some changes in active directory and now we have an automatic update system. no more running around to each computer for patching security wholes.
Last night we ran a small test. Tonight we do 1 department. If all goes well again, we will do another department tomorrow, and the rest of the NY office next week. So far all looks good. We will know for sure tomorrow morning.
The Set Up
There are a few things I don’t or won’t talk about on this blog. So far I have avoided dating completely. Not sure if the internet is the venue to discuss that very much. I bring it up because I felt compelled to discuss one angle of dating right now. The blind date and or the fix up date comes to mind. I am not against either in theory. Just I won’t accept being fixed up by anyone. Some people that are on the “not allowed to fix Scott up list” is my mom. Come on, do you really want your mom to set you up on a blind date? My mom has wanted to fix me up with daughters of her friends for a while. I have continually told her no. Not sure if it was a battle of wills, but finally I said OK when she said a friend of hers at work wanted to set me up with someone else she knew. I will know how it goes soon. I am still not sure about the whole fix up by a parent thing. if it was my sister I would be ok with it. if it was a cousin or my brother in law I would be cool with it, even encourage it. The fix up just doesn’t feel right coming from a parent. That goes out the window if the fix up is a hit, unless said parent speaks to or knows allot about the girl. That is the really weird part.
Well, there is only one way to find out how everything pans out!!! Thank for sitting through my ramblings.