Could this be my first usenet posting?
https://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.tv.red-dwarf/browse_frm/thread/27eccbb6e97c7ca2/0e4edf91718dee25?q=ism@dcs.ed.ac.uk&rnum=25&hl=en#0e4edf91718dee25
closely followed by
https://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.fan.douglas-adams/browse_frm/thread/19993ad7de5d290c/cc867d10f88ff528?q=ism@dcs.ed.ac.uk&rnum=24&hl=en#cc867d10f88ff528
In scotland. For future note the tube at oxford circus doesn’t open till 5:30am and the first train doesn’t for another 15 minutes after that. I made my 7am flight to glasgow, with a about 20 minutes to spare. The British Midlands flight was uneventful. I didn’t fly over the Campsie hills so I wasn’t able to spot any land marks.
I am about 90% complete in London. Still waiting on the new Gig ethernet card. That should be there on monday. The webfiltering is up and running, the Sensor box is online and monitoring.
I am going to be in dundee tomorrow then back to london and sunday night then fly to DC on monday night.
Made it to london. The flight was at 8am so that meant I had to get up at 4:45 to make the 20 mins drive plus the 2 hour check in. I didn’t get upgraded but I did score emergency exit row seats. I think the funiest thing about the flight was watching people try and work out how to open the doors to the toilets *evil grin*. It was interesting to note that the same people seemed to go to the toilet at least 3 or 4 times during the flight. The BA 777’s don’t have laptop power in the cheap seats but having the choice of 8 movies to watch made up for it.
I am working close to covent garden and staying close to the oxford street. So far work has been interesting the dead server turned out to be a bad network card that would stop the server booting. I have the web filter box setup with an IP I need to look at the settings tomorrow, the sensor box is online as well sans a networking card. I need to hook everything into the network but I can’t test anything till the old offices network goes dead on Friday night.
I still plan on trying to get to scotland on the weekend but I think I am going to be here late on Friday night.
Fucking viruses. Can you tell I am pissed. This is another AOL IM virus that hit our network. I think it is only 2 machines and 1 with a confirmed infection. I have been working on this since 4:30 and I am still not finished.
From reports from users I was able to get a copy of the file. which was on the C:\sp.exe. It also had a batch file called a.bat. I ran it on a lab machine and confirmed that it starts a process called iPODusb.exe, writes some junk to the registry to make it start. changes from proxy settings. I then submit the file to McAfee get an extra.dat, test it, test it again with a larger group. Set all desktops to pull the extra.dat. Force the infected machine to scan it’s self. I am now waiting on a bindview report coming back that looks for these files on all computers. So far it has found 2 hits which is why I think it only attempted to infect 2 machines. So 4 hours of my life wasted just because someone clicked on a link in IM.
Dran, I lost my uk cellphone number and the money that was on the phone. Oh well. guess I need to get a new sim card when I get to the UK
I have a nutty cat running round the house. I don’t know why but she is seeking a lot of attention.
So much for this being a work on the house day. I decided to look into the publishing my calendar on website with out having to buy a dot mac account. This was easier than I thought. I got my webserver set to allow webdav to a specific directory. I have the authentication tied into the same password set as web mail. I hit publish and it works. Now all I need is for HY to publish her calendar and we might have a chance of keeping up with what the other person is planning.
This blows you can’t subscribe to a calendar that is on an https site
see
https://tuttlesvc.teacherhosting.com/blog/blosxom.cgi/labor/technology/schooltool/313.html
for more details.
I have a packet of Milk Chocolate hob nobs, a laptop, a 3.5 inch USB drive enclosure with my old failing 2.5 laptop hard disk enclosure in it sitting open on my desk. So it is safe to say I am having a geek day.
I worked on updating my resume this morning. I will post it on my imacdonald.co.uk website at somepoint. I am listening to WAMU.
My trip to the post office to get my mail was one of those times where I should taken my bike. A trip that should have taken 15 minutes took me close to 30 mins because they have closed off a lane at the end of Pratt and President.
I discovered this week that my quicken file didn’t copy over correctly to my file server. It seems they do something funny with the file. When I copied it back after swapping out the hard disk the file wouldn’t open. I didn’t know this but the .qdfm isn’t really a file it is a folder with lots of files contained in it. I was able to create a new file then copy data bits to this new file but the stocks were missing and all the account transfers were pointing to the wrong accounts. Which is why I bought a USB drive enclosure and 3.5 inch to 2.5 inch IDE convert able. The disk seems to be working so I am copying everything off just incase I find other files in the future that have the same problem.
Tomorrow is going to be a work on the house day. I need to patch the whole in the living room ceiling from repairing the leaking shower.
Some, well one of my friends has been saying that I look like Ewan McGregor. For those who haven’t seen me recently I have a beard and longish hair. So an other friend sent me the following link this morning. Which would explain the conversation I had with my girlfriend where she suggested I dress up as Obi Wan for Halloween.
My 12″ powerbook now has a new 80 gig hard disk in it to replace the 40 gig that died. and my main desktop machine is now an AMdDsempron 2800+. It is zipping through a roll of film right now. It is also has a quiter fan than then old motherbaord. At somepoint I need to rebuild the file server using the 1.3 Gig Motherboard and CPU I pulled out of my main desktop machine but I need to find a quiter fan for it first.
