Day: 26 September 2004

Class Starts Tomorrow

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My EMT class starts tomorrow. I am looking forward to getting the certification again, but I am not looking forward to the class. It is allot of time commitment. I hope I don’t have issues with work regarding it. I also haven’t taken a class since I got right out of college. I am not a fan of sit down education so I hope I can sit through 3 days of class.

I also hope I can handle the medical stuff. I used to be able to do it no problem. That was why I wanted to goto medical school. Now it is years later and I am getting back into EMS, I hope I can handle it. it has been a while. I am probably just worried because the class is a big change for a few months, but I haven’t ridden on a call in years. It will be an interesting transition.

Of course if my last EMT class is any gauge on my knowledge (even if it is book knowledge) I will be ok. I got like an 86 or 88 on the last written exam I took, and a perfect score on my practical exam. High marks to live up to. I know I wont ever get a perfect mark on the practical. I don’t know how I did it the last time. I just want to live through the class and get my certification card again.

Tomorrow will be an extra difficult day at work also. Jayson is down in Baton Rouge cleaning up his house so he can sell it. He wont be back until Wednesday. Then I am off to Kingston for Thursday and Friday. That means we will be short handed at work all week. Him being gone means I will have to do some helpdesk work. I hate that, but I gotta do what needs to be done. Danny will hang out with me in my office while Jayson is gone. He likes our office since he can hide (if only a bit) from some of the developers. With him working out of my office, I am not all by myself. It gets lonely sometimes back there. other times I actually get allot done when no one is around. So after that all being said, I was looking forward to the quiet to get some extra work done with Jay gone, but Danny is cool, and it does get really quiet in my office when I am alone.

My typing hands are getting tired. It is also getting late. I was hoping to get some more writing into this blogging session, but I will call it a night. Hope to get some more writing in later this week, class permitting.

Classic VMWare

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I have babbled on about VMWare for the past 2 days. I know, I have. Well I will probibly continue to do so for the forseable future. Why? Because that software is so cool. But in the short term I will stop my raving. I have finished installing Windows 3.11 for workgroups, Windows 95, 98, & ME in virtual machines. All I really need to create is a Windows 98SE vmware. Probibly no real reason to do it, but I will probibly do it anyway.

All the virtual machines work great. The only one with an issue is Win 3.11. I am not sure if the network card is properly configured. Since it didn’t come with an option to install a TCP/IP stack I will need to find that somewhere and give the network on that VM a try. it came with Netbeu, and IPX, but no TCP/IP.

Now that all that work is done I need to offload the virtual machines off my laptop since I only have 2 gigs of space left on it now.

This entry was written while listening to 100 Years from the album The Battle For Everything by Five for Fighting

Really Old School Virtual Machines

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After getting Win 98, and 95 installed I gave a crack at Windows 3.11. First off OS’s built when the 386 or 486 were common install on a P-4 with 750megs of ram (even if it is in a virtual machine) rather fast. I got DOS 6.22 installed in the Virtual Machine in 5 minutes. It took longer to get the virtual disk to be formated with FAT16 and the install files onto the disk than it did to run the install. Windows 3.11, actually Windows for Workgroups 3.11 took like 15 minutes total to install. Probably less. I didn’t test the network settings, but I was glad that the thing installed. I have saved all the configurations. I have no real use for them, except for having them and making sure they actually work. You never know when you will need and old OS.

It turns out the problems I had installing all of the above mentioned OS’s was not me, but my AMD Atholon 1500+ desktop. Some piece of hardware is crashing windows, and vmware. it was doing similar things a few months ago when I was trying to install win95. Now I think it is the machine. When it happened before I thought it was what I was trying to do. I got everything to work just fine on my Thinkpad T40.