Mentioned more than 2 years ago, we’ve finally started to use it. Jim and I are migrating as many of our physical machines to VMware Server virtual machines hosted on very nice Dell PowerEdge servers running CentOS 4.4 as we can.
I kind of thought I was getting away from this kind of stuff when I left Housing, but obviously not.
One of the “services” I’m responsible for has been floating adrift for a couple of years without any real users. When it was handed to me, it came with a directive to support the campus Multimedia Users Group, and we are starting to ramp up. There will be a dry-run, proof-of-concept event streamed live April 10th at 4:00 pm. You’ll need Real Player or Real Alternative (preferred) to watch it. Hopefully I’ll have a URL posted here later today…
I kind of have to note the fact that I can, and have, posted a note on the CITES status server.
Of course, it’s not for the service I was hired to manage, but that’s a different discussion.
So, YouTube is taking over the world. But, this guy is pretty darn good at explaining Economics.
Note: Apparently, you have to be some sort of Econ geek to find this funny, but anyway.
Linked from Jim, the OkCupid Commonly Confused Words Test:
You scored 92% Beginner, 100% Intermediate, 93% Advanced, and 86% Expert!
Robin is one year old today, the party was fun. Doctor’s appointment tomorrow afternoon so we’ll know just how much he weighs and how long he is. Pictures over at the albums. The car seat got turned around yesterday, now he gets to see where we’re going, sort of.
Consumer Reports has retracted it’s article and study that said almost all US spec car seats are junk. (Via Jalopnik)
Good to know that our Britax Marathon might actually have been worth the small fortune it cost, as long as we can use it for Robin until he’s, oh, 4’9″ or so.
The last few days at work have put the DNS RFP on the back burner and pushed me towards learning lots of new terms: DID, PSAP, NANP and ACD.
So far, the setup for the eval seems to be going well, the onsite technical guy from the vendor knows his stuff and the right people to call when he doesn’t know the answer. We’ve had a couple bumps in the road from Ameritech, T1 PRIs and the goofyness that is the campus Centrex system. But, we’re working around them and hopefully deploying phones to ~15 people between now and Friday. Shoretel essentially sent us one of every product they make in the VoIP sector, and we’re trying to put it all to good use.
Hopefully, I’ll remember to post about the outcome of this evaluation, assuming I’m allowed to by the NDA I have to sign at some point.
