Aunt Lois

Great Aunt Lo
Rest in peace, you were always fun to be around. And thank you for all the wacky gifts over the years, they have been and will continue to be cherished.

Lois Emele Betka

Lois Emele Betka, 58, of Skokie, formerly of East Lynn, died at 8:50 a.m. Wednesday, June 6, 2007, at her home.

She was born in June 1948, in Danville, the daughter of E. Kenneth Betka and Florence E. Nelson.

Survivors include: her mother: Florence Betka of Hoopeston; sisters: Sue Betka of Washington, D.C. and Jean (Tom) Skoza of Champaign; brother: Bill (Melva) Betka of Cissna Park. She is also survived by three nephews and one niece. She was preceded in death by her father and a brother, Robert Betka.

Ms. Betka worked as a project officer for the State of Ohio U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. She enjoyed cooking, gardening, sewing and reading.

Funeral service: 1 p.m. Tuesday, June 12, 2007, at Anderson Funeral Home, 427 E. Main St. in Hoopeston; Visitation: 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tuesday at the funeral home; Officiating: Rev. Janet Eggleston; Per her wishes she will be cremated. Private family burial at a later date at East Lynn Cemetery. Memorials to the donor’s choice.

Ha

Sometimes, work makes me think. Other times, it just makes me want to scream.

12:48 [someoneelse] and you’re wishing for the return of blissful ignorance?
12:48 [me] yeah
12:49 [me] knowledge is power. and power corrupts. or something
12:49 [someoneelse] unfortunately, the ignorant sleep better

Streaming after report

Peak Clients
Peak clients


The dry-run live streaming event that happened on the 10th went well. With very little in the way of advance publicity, we peaked at about 40 clients and I’m not sure we ever handed any clients off to any of the other servers. Next up is something on May 13th, hopefully.

Windows Server 2003 and Exchange 2000

It’s not my job anymore, but I can’t pass up the opportunity to comment on KC’s post about Exchange 2000 and Windows Server 2003.

In the year or so after we made that decision, I had countless discussions with customers who thought we made the decision for fiscal reasons, we were just trying to squeeze more money out of our customers, etc etc… let’s just say that it’s really frustrating to have your customers think you’re evil. 🙂

I’ll count myself as one of those customers, though I never got a chance to comment directly to KC or anyone else at Microsoft. But, it’s good to know that MS isn’t always just a looking for another way to make a quick buck or using forced obsolescence. Also, I can only imagine what happens when someone two or three levels above you tells someone else two or three levels above them that you said it can’t be done.

Some history

I was going through some old mail archives and I found this:

Date: Tue, 29 Apr 1997 01:02:01 -0500
Subject: Auto Reset of ipfwadm stats
Tue Apr 29 01:02:01 CDT 1997
Stats for yesterday:
IP accounting rules
 pkts bytes dir prot source               destination          ports
  144 28693 i/o all  ppp01.hoopeston.k12.il.us anywhere             n/a
 7336 2332K i/o all  ppp02.hoopeston.k12.il.us anywhere             n/a
    0     0 i/o all  ppp03.hoopeston.k12.il.us anywhere             n/a
    0     0 i/o all  ppp04.hoopeston.k12.il.us anywhere             n/a

That’s just the earliest mail I can find, it was running before April. Hard to believe we’ve had dialup running in Hoopeston for more than 10 years.