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.

Tired Day

Alright, it has been one of those days that is a disaster. At least when I got done all was working correctly. Anyway, I will talk to you later.

Take care all, and God Bless!

Successful Day

ok, I succesfully got that damn virus today, I also got the Server installed and the workstation setup, with full updates and office. I need to make sure that I get the Exchange working perfectly, and set everything up and test it.

I also got further with my Linux conversion, but I am still really missing my love. She still hasn't contacted me. I don't know what is going on, and I am still kinda worried. I know Angelee said that she was ok, but I don't know if I can wait till the 19th to hear from her. But what can I do but wait.

I talked to my friend Mario for a little bit, he reminded me about the MOTG, and I didn't have an answer as to when it is going to happen. I know that I am concerned about the status of Juan and his new team/class. From the sound of it, he doesn't have a team, a time, or a clue as to what he is going to do. he looks like he is going to have an easy class, but unless he starts getting it together I am afraid he isn't going to pull through this last course. I think I pushed to much while I was on his team, now he doesn't seem to have enough of a self-motivation on his own. I sure hope that isn't the case.

From the sounds of it though, Mario is doing terrific in his class, even though he is not to happy about it. He appearently has a team leader who is a micro manager and a nit picky person who requires everything their own way. A major switch from the way I used to do things with them. They always told me that I was the leader, but I only did what was necessary, what had to be done, and I only pushed when necessary. I wasn't the leader, I was one of the five facilitators of our education. We all brought something important and where able to assist each other in the learning process.


Anyway, I think that is more then enough for tonight, This is Eric, saying God Bless.

Back Again...

Well, I have some time on my hands since my girlfriend is not around to talk to me, so I think I will restart my bloggin...

I finally found out where she was yesterday... Seems that she had an argument with her brother and headed back to her home providence; however, she never made it. Since I couldn't get any information from anybody over there in the philippines, I got extremely nervous and called them almost everyday, trying to get ahold of her brother to see what was going on. Since he isn't in the house very much, I kept getting people who didn't know anything more then I did, and finally, I talked to Angelee who informed me that she was ok, she made it to the providence, but was staying with Rizza's aunt. Why she didn't go all the way home, I don't know. I don't even know why she bolted yet. I have a idea that it was because of an argument with her brother, what that is I don't know.

As for right now, I am waiting to find out more information, I am told that angelee will be heading home on the 19th of this month and will make sure that I get to talk to Rizza so that I find out what is going on. I don't know if I will be able to wait that long.

Anyway, as for what I did today, I worked on adding more memory to the warehouse workstations and started creating the virtual workstations and server for the computer tutors to train the employees on tuesday. I accidentally got a virus on one of the workstations and tried to get rid of it, but it wasn't an easy battle. I will find out tomorrow if I killed it off...

Now, I started my Ubuntu conversion blog, http://convertmetolinux.blogspot.com/, to follow my fun time trying to convert myself to a linux life. I don't know if I will be able to make it considering that I am such a microsoft person, but what the heck!

I miss my Rizza, I wish that she would contact me. I want to hear her voice again. I have to be patient and wait. Anyway, thats all I got for tonight.