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May 12, 2005
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So, yeah. In order to better contend with the extra bright light problem here at work I’ve expanded on my previous monitor hood. This still doesn’t solve my problem of having to sit under such bright lights, but at least I can see my monitor better.
Next I think I’ll make an actual wooden one with a nice matte black finish on the inside.
Fly Strip
February 25, 2005
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So I was wandering at work, attempting to locate the source of a rather foul smell. In doing so I came across this garbage can which contained some rather populated fly strips. Interestingly, this was not the source of the smell.
With regards to the smell, I’m thinking that someone microwaved some catfish or something of that nature…
UPDATE: There are actually two fly strips, so I pulled them apart and took another picture. That can be found here. I just wish I had a large baggie so I could take them home and photograph them in greater detail.
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February 3, 2005
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June 29, 2004
Does anyone who reads this have any experience with Jabber? I’m trying to get a third party client (for use on my home machine) to connect with the corporate servers here, and it’s just. not. working.
So, please? Anyone who can throw some ideas my way?
Thanks!
Conference Calls
September 5, 2002
Word of advice… If you’re on a conference call and you need to go away for a few minutes and your phone spews hold music, DO NOT put the conference call on hold.
Someone from a Spanish speaking area kept sticking the call on hold, forcing us to listen to pop music and random commercials all while postponing the call. Judging by hold music I’ve heard in the past, I think it was someone from Mexico, but I’m not sure…
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June 19, 2002
Well, it seems that the fibre channel array may be working fine after all. Kinda. I ran it through the works with ATTO Disk Benchmark and I started seeing performance numbers that made more sense. But there was one really wierd thing. The write speeds peaked off at about 20 MB/sec while the read went up to about 95 MB/sec. Need to figure this one out… Maybe that’s why the drive just felt slow. I think it could also somehow be a limitation (of a setting?) on the controller. I’d like to rebuild the array, but I just don’t have the time to do a reformat / reinstall right now. Oh well. I’d check other settings, but my copy of GAM for Windows got messed up. Some random service is missing…
I got to work about 30 minutes ago. It’s quiet here right now. Just the sounds of my keyboard (and someone else’s) clacking away. Lunch today should be nice. Brian and I are supposed to meet up with Al over at a local Indian place. This particular place has a nice lunch buffet for a reasonable price. Maybe they’ll even have the fried cheese balls in syrup. I still swear that those things are doughnuts and not cheese.
Coffee just isn’t waking me up this morning. Maybe coworkers will. If they get here before I pass out.
Yesterday I learned that we have a rather nice Cisco lab downstairs in this very building. A fully stocked CCNA, CCNP, and CCIE lab, along with a bunch of other random stuff. Not bad. I think I’m going to pick up my CCNA, simply because it looks fairly easy and there’s never anything wrong with having a second cert and learning a bit more.
I think I’ll go grab another cup of coffee and take a little walk around. There’s a bunch of stuff to be done around here today, so I need to get going on all of that.