A new day, where the heck is the dollar?

Ok, I know that at times I can get away from this blogging thing for a while, but it isn't like I really think about it all the time. Mostly, it is to allow myself to either a) vent, b) organize my mind, c) complete my self-appreciation or d) complain! Lets see, since my last post, I have quite my job, started my own business (http://www.pcexpertnetworking.com), lost a major client from one of my bigger clients (CRAP!), and haven't had any major work for the past couple of days due to the wonderful world of the economy SUCKING! (yes, frustration is one of those complaining statements right). Well, if there is nothing massive to do, then it is time to get a better handle on what you do. Right now, the only long term item the I have going on is that I have a client who is having backup issues, the backup software company can't seem to give me a straight answer as to what is going on, and I am simply out of ideas except for one and that is not a good one.
Anyway, I am currently starting up my Linux trials again (please see my conversion posts, http://convertmetolinux.blogspot.com/) and am going about bettering myself in order to understand linux better. If things work out, I can add Linux managment to my list of skill sets and offerings, then after I have accomplished that, I will move on to MACs (if they still exist).
Anyway, I figure that is enough of a teaser for right now, so to all I say, "Good Night, and God Bless!"

Another day in Paradise

Well, I made it to work, was at about half mast the majority of the day, what appeared to be the worst was when the cough syrup wore off. I think I had better get to the drugstore tomorrow morning and get some cough drops.

Had one of those DOH! moments... spent about two hours working on a printer, trying to figure out why it wasn't printing right... did everything I could think of, changed settings, rebooted the server went to update the firmware and printed out a configuration and it started printing several copies. DOH! Did a factory reset of the system and VIOLA! it worked perfectly. Boy, did I feel stupid.

Oh well, I guess that is all for now... so to all a good night, and God bless...

Another Sick Day

Ok, here I am sitting here in front of the TV going nuts! Literally, going NUTS! I have been sick since Monday, and I have a new boss sitting at work trying to figure things out, but I don't think he is doing to well. I have been called a couple of times since I was out, had to correct the test backups. Had got several comments from others about things not so good and many people are missing me already. I don't know what is going to happen in this process.

So, I am sitting here trying to study, checkout some new software, try and figure out a game plan for next week, and figure out what kind of damage I am going in on Monday to see. I hope that I can go at least 80% tomorrow or else I will have problems.

Missed talking to my fiance' last night. Man, that still feels weird saying that I have  a fiance'! It isn't a bad feeling, but it is weird. I terribly miss her every single day. I can't believe how lonesome I am. It was bad enough before I met her, hell it has been bad enough since I was 9 or 10, but this is about hundred times worse. I MUST find some work that will support us soon, when this facade breaks, it isn't going to be good. I know I can keep it under control for a few months before my ability to mask my emotions buckles.

 

Anyway, that's all for now, until next time... May God Bless...

The day of twists

Well, today was strange. I didn't make it to the graduation ceremonies. Now I know what you are about to say, but it wasn't entirely my fault. there were a couple of things that killed it. First, my parents got scared about the split second timing that I had scheduled, which caused several little arguments and followed by a realization that mom couldn't handle the time that we would be stuck in graduation. See, she has a hip condition where she can't sit for very long, this has caused several problems, but not a big disaster till now. Since they wouldn't be able to go, I decided that it probably wouldn't be a great process, so it was at this point that we decided to call this off. We then went and did some shopping and enjoyed the rest of the day, which was good because we quit arguing so much and I wasn't able to pick up the server till 3 o'clock, well into the ceremonies. Did some minor things, and rested (WOW, what an effect). Then we went to see Mario and his family at the brazilian resteraunt. The food was excellent, the company was even better. I did have a lot of fun, but the brat, mario, decided to hoodwink me and he paid the bill... I am going to have to come up with a method to pay him back, but I think I already have that plan in process (MUAHAHAHAHAHA).

I got a great digital camera today for a graduation present, I still think my mom and dad went above and beyond with it. I had it at the resteraunt, and I might post some of the pictures in a later post... maybe.

Well all, I think I am going to call it a night, Good night and God Bless

Another day in paradise

Ok, this is what I am facing this next couple of weeks. First this week is a server deployment week, spent all day yesterday dealing with setting up and getting the server configured, today was supposed to be a little bit of the deployment, but didn't have anything to do when we got there. After I got home, I got a call from my main work called and I had to go into it to get some file setup.

Tomorrow, I have a commencement graduation ceremony to go in Anaheim (over an hour away) at 1:00 pm. I need to get a server that is to be deployed next week at another place at, hopefully, 12:00 pm in Pasadena. Now this is possible, if and only if, the wonderful shipment arrives on time, there is no traffic, and everything runs smoothly. If I miss this window, then I get to wait till Monday when the place opens again to pick up the device which has to be shipped out on Monday already configured so that on Tuesday when I arrive in Colorado the server is there. This is what I mean when I say that this next couple of weeks are going to be split second, even now my main work is calling me to do work.

Currently, I still have to do the work for another client via programming requirements, which needs to get done. This is in addition to my homework and time with my family. I have to worry about getting everything from my team mates from school so that on Monday I will have everything for the presentation that we will have to give. The only thing that brings my mind rest is that in less then three months, I will be with my love, and seeing if things will work out between her and I. I am scared, what if things don't work out, what if things are not even semi-smooth, so many variables are not calculate-able, I really can not predict the possibilities. To much for me to calculate without any additional details. The only thing that I can count on is that Rizza, Francis, Angelee and who knows who else are trying to do everything that they can to help this relationship as much as they can.

Oh well, it is back to the data mines for me.

Long Day

Alright, this has been a long day, very productive, but long. I started with the basic work that had to be done. I got my laptop up and running, and then was able to start the day... I had to get the virtual workstations from the storage area, which I was able to get one from the workstation while the students where busily getting their lesson for the day. I also snuck a keyboard from storage so that I could replace an employee's bad keyboard (which I will hold onto till I have a chance to check it out and determine if it can be fixed). I was able to grab one of the virtual machine files, but was unable to access the other one. So off to the office I go... I adapted the workstation to adhere to the new server and then added the the users to the system. During the trainers lunch, I went back to storage, replaced the server and the one workstation and also reset the other workstation to the appropriate settings. I sometimes forget how impressive it looks to someone who doesn't know how the computers work in networking styles, because I really impressed the tutor, who had returned before I was finished. The rest of the day went without incident, oh well...

On a side note...

Ok, this is the geek in me… I was watching Enterprise (yes, I am a treky) and I found out something interesting (yes, I am a fanboy who watches the screens as they appear) and I found out that the enterprise runs linux!

Also, when the bad guy deleted all the data (nope, they don't have trash bins) and when it erased, it showed that 19.3 xb freed. Read below for what XB is.

Just exactly how large is a yottabyte?

1 byte = 8 bits (usually)

1 kilobyte = 1 KB (1 KB = 2¹⁰ bytes) = 1,024 bytes

1 megabyte = 1024 KB (1 MB = 2²⁰ bytes) = 1,048,576 bytes

1 gigabyte = 1024 MB (1 GB = 2³⁰ bytes) = 1,073,741,824 bytes

1 terabyte = 1024 GB (1 TB = 2⁴⁰ bytes) = 1,099,511,627,776 bytes

1 petabyte = 1024 TB (1 PB = 2⁵⁰ bytes) = 1,125,899,906,842,624 bytes

1 exabyte = 1024 PB (1 XB = 2⁶⁰ bytes) = 1,152,921,504,606,846,976 bytes

1 zettabyte = 1024 XB (1 ZB = 2⁷⁰ bytes) = 1,180,591,620,717,411,303,424 bytes

1 yottabyte = 1024 ZB (1 YB = 2⁸⁰ bytes) = 1,208,925,819,614,629,174,706,176 bytes

The prefixes "TB", "XB" or "EB", "ZB", and "YB" are not in common use (yet); I'm assuming them.

A new day!

ok, I now know that my love is fine, and doing well in her hometown. She doesn't want to take about what happened to much. I think there is more going on then what she is telling me and it concerns me a little, but I trust her. She is going to stay in her hometown till I have a chance to go and meet her in december time. I am really thankful to angelee for making sure that I had the oppertunity to talk to her and relieve my stress, I was so concerned about what was going and how she was doing...

Today was a standard day, did some maintance on my system and made sure that everything was in tip top condition, need to finish up some minor bit more tomorrow, also need to reinstall an windows 2003 interface...

I am looking at purchasing an Action Pack from Microsoft. I am going to talk to the geeks about this and try to determine if they are interested in this. I am certain that they will be, but I am going to buy it and go from there...

a little of the history between today, and the last post that I got...

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Got 2 computers that were messed up, first one had a harddrive error, and then a ton of spyware/viruses. I didn't think it would have that much viruses because McAfee was installed, unfortunately, it wasn't working right... not renewed. Since it was a WinXP Home edition, I had to work a little harder because there were several hundred folders that had no permissions, was very difficult to finally get to, but then was able to gain access and determine that they were actually attempts by McAfee to update and install the new version.
Fixed it and got it back to the owner.

Second computer is also a Win XP Home edition, although it only had some bad Malware and that was easily removed using Adaware and AVG, it seems that they have a new software that kills spyware, and searchs for rootkits. Installed and killed malware, and happiness abounds. Will return to Owner on Monday.