Work today was really
hellish. We had to go up to
Birmingham and M
managed to take a
wrong turn, leaving us stuck in the
car for another
half hour.
We had gone up there to try to work out what was wrong with the
BDC. It
refused to boot all the way and
blue screened when you tried to
log
on. Unfortunately I left my
Bootable Business Card (
Linux distro that
runs from a 40
Mb CD) in
Swindon so we couldn't get on it and access
the
network from it that way either.
Repairing or
reinstalling NT failed as it couldn't copy lots and lots
of files across from the CD so we concluded that it had a
duff hard disk, we ended
up disconnecting it so we could return to Swindon and replace the disk
there. So having the
Bootable Business Card wouldn't have done much
good anyway. Still, as of tomorrow it will live in the
Technet folder!
Took a lunch break during which I located
Forbidden Planet and picked
up some
Doctor Who CDs and
books. Then it was back to the
office for
testing of the
Evil Database. It is evil because it needs a
unique
frontend for each
user so we have a lot of messing around with
scripts
to select the correct one. Add to this the confusion of accessing it
from multiple
NT domains and you end up with a 10 minute wait from
double click to
Access appearing on screen.
My own
database (still under construction) sits on
MySQL on a
Linux
box and a
PHP3/
HTML front end, time from
double click? 1 second.
Of course, removing the
BDC also removed the
plot server, so we had to
set up the
PDC as a
temporary replacement plot
server. HA! We ended up
messing about with different versions of the
server software and
drivers, and had to have some
CDs
mounted on
network shares in Swindon
so we could access them up
North.
We finally got that sorted and headed home, the plans to spend the
afternoon in Swindon were scrapped and I made it back to my place at
18:00.
I then sorted out my
bank statements (my floor now actually has space
on it!) and listened to the first
episode of one the Doctor Who CDs,
it is the best yet.
Then it was time to
connect to the
net and discover that somebody
had cooled
inter-culteral misunderstandings, being my first cool I
was forced into
smug mode (see
Red Dwarf - maybe). I also found
that the rating on
May 16, 2000 is now my highest so I will keep
writing up my life for
anybody (or should that be
everybody) to
read. I then requested a
kill for another
witeup of mine that had
ended up as low as May etc was high, looking back it wasn't as good as
I thought.
A few days ago I complained to
ZZN about a
spammer and got a nice
response that assumed I was a ZZN member and had access to their red
list. I wrote back and got this
automatic response.
I'm now off to listen to some more Doctor Who and
room cleaning
(shiver), but I think this will push me up a level so that is two
great everythings to happen to me today :) .