On a different note, I’m glad we finally got this in the repository.

It’s about time that I get a new card, I’ve had my current card since October 2003. The only thing that sucks is I can’t do a lot of things at work now.

Update: A purchase order has been put in, and I’m getting a new one.

Update: Damn that was a quick turn around, I got my card the next day

After taking last week off from work since I felt like crap the whole week, I returned to work today and continue the “struggle” with trying to do custon Jumpstart installs of Solaris and possible trying to figure out Solaris’ in.dhcpd. Hmm, should have check beforehand, the damn install server and systems are on different switches and, probably, different subnet. I’ll have to check into that tomorrow.

Tomorrow I’ll get my school book. If any one wants to sell the books for Linear System, Electronic Devies, Digital System Design (the class, not the Capstone) and maybe Distributed Programming, would you email me?

I’ll be sure to post my schedule when I finalize it (should be by the first week of classes).

Bah, another day of work tomorrow then the weekend.

I need to write up a thing on how to actually do the installs tomorrow.

So I ended up not going to the NYC*BUG meeting today since I got to New York a hour late. I’ve now realized why I never take the bus to New York. The only redeeming fact about the bus ride to New York is that I didn’t pay for it.

I sent out an email concerning a student programming position upstairs (I’m speaking from an ops point-of-view) in January. I didn’t hear back until last week which resulted in an interview last Monday which resulted in a programming job for the summer with OSS. I will need to leave Operations for the summer at minimum, or forever if I get it permenantly (most likely). The reedeming part of this is that I get my own desk and get to have a sleep schedule again.

For some reason I’m not at ease with most everything happening in my life right now. I have no idea why. And my neck and upper body have been hurting for the past week.

This post started off with the rant below. I didn’t find it too great, so I was going to discard it. Instead I included it below, since it’s a large chunck. Maybe someone at work will find it amusing. The real [even worse] content is the next paragraph:

It’s another Monday, with means doing a bad job at trying to complete my lab three hours before it’s due. Did that and this week’s lab, which took us a while to get started since we had no idea which piece of equipment was broken this week. The oscilloscope for some reason or another, could not find a stable signal (and now we can’t get a frequency reading). Getting sick of my lab partners not wanting to do the lab, I took the initiative and hooked the function generator to the frequency counter that was in the modular thing we use (it’s a Tektronic three-part modular thing, with a function generator, frequency counter and dual power supplies). I don’t think anyone else would have done this nor would know what a frequency counter is. So we busted through the lab and then I went to started kludging together my program for PM2 that was due last semester. The instructor insists that we do it in Visual C++, which is why I am relucatant to complete the program (I having bad memories of Visual C++ and all), but the instructor has given me an ultimatum to complete the program asap or get a C (more likely an F or that is what he is saying). I really don’t like this man (you generally know this if you read the other half-dozen or so rant on this class). I got quickly tired of this since I had to figure out how to disable precompiled headers that Visual C++ defaults to (and I don’t know how to use). Continuing the day, I went to see the house I plan to live in next semester (this is with some other people, of course). It’s nice for a house in New Brunswick, certainly better than I was expecting. So, that brings us up to now and I think I will sleep soon.

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I’ve decided that when you try to make something useful and nice, there will be other things that prevent it from being useful and nice. What I’m talking about is my former project at work, which is a table listing systems located in the room and services that they provide. Well, it was suppose to be like that. It has grow large, like from a trout to the size of a while; it’s fairly fat. In the beginning I was the only one in charge of it, now everyone can edit it. This can be a good and bad thing, mainly a bad thing. I’m a big fan of consistant looks and interfaces, which could be maintained if I was the only one editing it (or if everyone else gave a damn). This is not possible now since everyone seems to have an idea of what is the proper interface to the page. What is currently important is generally not important to the whole scope of the thing, which is one problem that came up (putting everything in bold and arrows pointing to it really defeats the purpose of putting something in bold and with arrows next to it). Also, people have no idea what the purpose of columns are, so they will put anything in them that seems to work (a machine name is the name of the machine, not the common name of a service it provides).

I’ve decided the following, in the course of writting this post:

• So I have decided that Cingular’s website sucks
• Trying to make everything look Aqua doesn’t work, especially in browsers.
• Rutgers needs more places you can stay and just sit
• Firefox on Mac OS X doesn’t suck that much

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I want a camel. That just needed to be said.

Another eight hours will be on the timecard today. Some “emergency coverage” was needed and I had nothing to do with my life, so here I am. Val owes me like three or four favors now, which doesn’t really matter because I never take advantage of them anyway. It’s really funny how I think I’ve clock enough hours at work while I’m not on shift to equal the amount of time I am. Now only if that time was diverted towards studying, then I would think we were in business then. Hmm, I think I should pull one of those favors so I don’t have to come in on Saturday, and then I could catch up on sleep and studying. Nah, Saturday is the day I come in four hours early, so we can get take out and have my name unintentionally mentioned in the EOS even though I’m not on shift. So the Saturday, 2nd Shift EOS (End of Shift) Report (also known as a TPS Report) usually has something like this added at the end: “Eric totally busted some moves to bhangra.” or “Eric expressed his desire to get himself an indian bride.”. Mind you, these are offical documents. But then again, there usually is a mention of a “good sammich [sic]” at least once a week. I think it’s a bad habit for ops to skip to the end of the an EOS Report just to read the ending tid bits. Well, at least they are reading that much. It also make people want to do the EOS since they like to come up with a good end line. I don’t know, it makes people do their job, so I guess it’s ok.

Alright, I have a program that I’ve been procrastinating on. Be sure to do it tonight (which I have been saying for a while now). Maybe I will, maybe I will just sleep and not care about it or anything else for that matter. Err, I should do it. I don’t know, in recitation it’s like the TA and I are having a conversation, and there just happens to be eight other people there. Not much interation from the others. Make me feel guilty for some reason.

Thanls for not listening to me ramble on about something you don’t care about. You may go back and do whatever you were doing before.

It’s a Saturday night, which means the machine room will smell like sushi and tempura, and the halls of Hill Center will echo of the sounds of Bhangra. Oh, just forget it.